How to get All Text in robot framework ?

Question

Consider the following source code,

<div id="groupContainer" class="XXXXXX">

<ul id="GroupContactListWrapper" class="list-wrapper">
    <li class="contactNameItemContainer">

        <div class="contactNameItem">
            <span class="name">Name1</span>
        </div>

    </li>
    <li class="contactNameItemContainer">

        <div class="contactNameItem">
            <span class="name">Name2</span>
        </div>

    </li>
</ul>

</div>

How do i retreive the two names (Name1,Name2) in a list variable ? I tried the following xpath for a "Get Text" keyword, but only returns the first one.

//div[@id='groupContainer']//li[@class='contactNameItemContainer']//span

Please suggest

Show the full code you used to 1) retrieve the list, and 2) retrieve the text. — SiKing, Jul 01 '14 at 18:49

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '14 at 02:42

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You could iterate over the elements as below:

${xpath}=    Set Variable    //div[@id='groupContainer']//li[@class='contactNameItemContainer']//span
${count}=    Get Matching Xpath Count    ${xpath}
${names}=    Create List
:FOR    ${i}    IN RANGE    1    ${count} + 1
\    ${name}=    Get Text    xpath=(${xpath})[${i}]
\    Append To List    ${names}    ${name}

This works but is rather slow when there are many matches.

answered Jul 08 '14 at 02:42

ombre42

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Can I please ask why you used "${name}" as the list name instead of "@{name}"? – Yu Zhang Aug 02 '15 at 00:59
I think there is a typo, **xpath=(${xpath})[${i}]** should have been **xpath=(${xpath})** – Yu Zhang Aug 02 '15 at 03:05
That's why I think RF sucks when a test case is a little complex. It creates a new language, but make it more complecated and way less powerful than python. Why doesn't It just let us just use python, and RF, as a framework, just provides functions like machanism of setup, teardown, control test cases scripts running, generator report. That's enough and good. Now it does more but does bad. Keyword development sucks. – Jcyrss May 10 '17 at 03:31

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '14 at 20:28

You could extend Selenium2Library and write your own keyword for this purpose. Save the following as Selenium2LibraryExt.py

from Selenium2Library import Selenium2Library


class Selenium2LibraryExt(Selenium2Library):

    def get_all_texts(self, locator):
        """Returns the text value of elements identified by `locator`.
        See `introduction` for details about locating elements.
        """
        return self._get_all_texts(locator)

    def _get_all_texts(self, locator):
        elements = self._element_find(locator, False, True)
        texts = []
        for element in elements:
            if element is not None:
                texts.append(element.text)
        return texts if texts else None

Then you can use your new Get All Texts keyword in your tests like this:

*** Settings ***
library     Selenium2LibraryExt


*** Test Cases ***
Get All Texts Test
  Open Browser    http://www.example.com   chrome
  @{texts}        Get All Texts            css=.name
  Log Many        ${texts}

Todor Minakov · Answer 3 · 2022-08-27T09:45:43.023

Though the top-rated answer is fully working - and the most xpath-ish :), let me add an option I don't see proposed yet - using the Get Webelements keyword. E.g.:

@{locators}=     Get Webelements    xpath=//div[@id='groupContainer']//li[@class='contactNameItemContainer']//span
${result}=       Create List

:FOR   ${locator}   in    @{locators}
\       ${name}=    Get Text    ${locator}
\       Append To List  ${result}  ${name}

It'll generate and return a list of all matching elements, on which you just iterate on. It might be a tad faster than xpath's [index] reference because the dom is evaluated once - but don't hold me accountable if that's not fully true :)

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 01 '14 at 04:53

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Get Text will return content of the first element that matches the locator. When using XPATH you can specify the index of the element you want to get, like this:

${name1}    Get Text    xpath=//div[@id='groupContainer']//li[@class='contactNameItemContainer'][0]//span
${name2}    Get Text    xpath=//div[@id='groupContainer']//li[@class='contactNameItemContainer'][1]//span
@{names}    Create List    ${name1}    ${name2}

answered Jul 01 '14 at 04:53

Harri

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This would work for the above case, but i was looking for a more generic one where there could be more than 2 inner LI containers – velapanur Jul 01 '14 at 17:51

asha cr · Answer 5 · 2018-10-26T08:27:43.410

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@Velapanur

I had another similar requirement where in i have to enter the texts into textareas in a page. The below i wrote with the idea in reference to what Todor had suggested, and it worked. Many thanks to Todor, Velapanur

@{Texts}=    Get WebElements    ${AllTextboxes}

    :FOR    ${EachTextarea}    in    @{Texts}

\    Input Text    ${EachTextarea}    ${RandomTextdata}

edited Oct 26 '18 at 08:27

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:36

asha cr

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Purus · Answer 6 · 2014-07-01T05:01:02.053

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Here is the logic to get all elements in Java. You can adopt it to your need.

You have to use findElements() and not findElement() to get all elements.

List<WebElement> items = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("ul#GroupContactListWrapper div.contactNameItem"));

foreach(item in items){
   System.out.println(item.getText();
}

If you want a particular element from the list you can use items.get(1)

edited Jul 01 '14 at 05:01

answered Jul 01 '14 at 04:18

Purus

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Thanks but was looking for the equivalent in Robot Framework. – velapanur Jul 01 '14 at 17:51
Thanks I already know the logic, just wanted a robot framework implementation. – velapanur Jul 02 '14 at 18:10

How to get All Text in robot framework ?

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