Count the number of elements found in selenium python

Question

I have the following html page where I am trying to locate the word silver and keep count on how many were found.

This is just two showing here but it can generate more so I don't know the exact count.

<tr id="au_4" class="odd">
<td>Silver</td>
</tr>
<tr id="au_4" class="even">
<td>Silver</td>
</tr>

This is what I tried but no luck:

count =  driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//td[text()='Silver']")

@Hackaholic This is not a string, OP is trying to locate elements inside HTML file. — Maroun, Jan 05 '15 at 21:47
@Hackaholic Indeed, but I'm almost sure that OP has established a connection with the web driver and not communicating directly with the string. — Maroun, Jan 05 '15 at 21:49

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '15 at 21:44

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count is a list of all elements that were found. In order to find its length, you should:

len(count)

I highly recommend you to go through the docs to better understand how Selenium works.

answered Jan 05 '15 at 21:44

Maroun

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thank you actually my code worked all I had to do is the len, the problem with python sometimes is that the error given does not clearly indicate what went wrong, plus I am really new to it. I just dont understand why the question got negative vote, seems like a legit question to me, isnt what this place is for? – Nro Jan 06 '15 at 16:40
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@Nro I'm glad it helped. I suggest you to go through the [hep center](http://stackoverflow.com/help) to better understand how Stack Overflow works. We expect minimal understanding of the problem being solved, maybe people downvoted because they expected that at least you know what the function you're using does.. Anyway, I see a well asked question, will upvote. – Maroun Jan 06 '15 at 18:16

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

It would be quite faster to retrieve count via execute_script then getting len from result of find_elements_by method call:

script = "return $(\"td:contains('{}')\").length".format(text="Silver")
count = driver.execute_script(script)

Sample above suits to you If you use jQuery, another ways of retrieving elements by text value can be found in How to get element by innerText SO question ...

Count the number of elements found in selenium python

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