Is there a way to find an element by attributes in Python Selenium?

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I got a html snippet like this:

<input type="text" node-type="searchInput" autocomplete="off" value="" class="W_input" name="14235541231062">

The only unique identity of this element in the html is the attribute node-type="searchInput", so I want to locate it by using some method of Python selenium sort of like this:

search_elem = driver.find_element_by_xxx("node-type","searchInput") # maybe?

I have checked the selenium (python) document for locating elems but didn't get a clue of how to locate this elem by the node-type attr. Is there a explicit way to locate this elem in python selenium?

Possible duplicate of [Find element by attribute](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26304224/find-element-by-attribute) — GIA, Jul 02 '18 at 22:21

score 71 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '15 at 07:58

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You can get it by xpath and check the node-type attribute value:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@node-type="searchInput"]')

answered Feb 10 '15 at 07:58

alecxe

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CSS Selectors notation for attribute is: tag_name[attribute_name=attribute_value]. Simpler and faster than XPath – João Farias Nov 26 '18 at 20:54
`AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'tag_name'` How do I access tag_name? – Mitchell van Zuylen Dec 09 '19 at 21:10
@JoãoFarias This works very nicely. – Sabbir Sobhani Jun 17 '22 at 19:20

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '20 at 17:33

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Even though the question is old but it's still very relevant I believe. You may be able to use simple css selector and the syntax is standard javascript similar to jquery or native browser support.

driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span.className[attrName="attrValue"]')

Example: driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span.blueColor[shape="circle"]')

answered Jun 15 '20 at 17:33

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What about tags that do not belong to class? – Charalamm Oct 16 '20 at 14:18
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For tags that do not belong to a class, remove the className attribute from the search: `driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[shape="circle"]')` – Justin C. Jun 20 '22 at 17:25

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 21 '23 at 21:28

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Here's a method you could use:

save_items = []

for item in driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("input"):
    # Get class
    item_class = item.get_attribute("class")

    # Get name:
    item_name = item.get_attribute("name")

    # And so on...


    # Check for a match
    if item_class == "W_input" and item_name == "14235541231062":
        # Do your operation (or add to a list)
        save_items.append(item)

edited Jun 21 '23 at 21:28

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answered Mar 24 '20 at 21:57

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Isn't this slow? – Ekrem Dinçel Mar 25 '20 at 21:18
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At scale, probably @EkremDİNÇEL – Yaakov Bressler Mar 25 '20 at 22:47

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