How to get img src in string in selenium using python

Question

I have a google search result, something like

div class="rc"
    h3 class="r"
        <a href="somelink">
            <img id="idFOO" src="data:somethingFOO" style="...">
        </a>

I want to add somethingFOO (or data:somethingFOO) to a string using python & selenium. How can I do that?

what do you mean you wan to add, do you mean you want to fetch this text and combine with string or you want to add something to this text ? — Gaurang Shah, Jul 20 '17 at 13:21
I want to put "somethingFOO" in a string. For example I want to be able to do "return string" and the result to be "somethingFOO". — cosminp, Jul 20 '17 at 13:23
I've tried myString=browser.find_element_by_class_name("r").text but I don't get what I want. I get some other text. I've tried find_element_by_id("idFOO).text and I get nothing. — cosminp, Jul 20 '17 at 13:27
Possible duplicate of [accessing selenium web elements with python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8121886/accessing-selenium-web-elements-with-python) — JeffC, Jul 20 '17 at 15:39

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '17 at 13:32

37

what you are interested is not a text, it's an attribute with name src. so if you will do something like that, you won't get what you want.

find_element_by_id("idFOO").text

if your html is like this,

<input id="demo">hello world </input>

then the following code will give you hello world

driver.find_element_by_id("demo").text

and following code will give you demo

driver.find_element_by_id("demo").get_attribute("id")

so in your case, it should be

driver.find_element_by_id("idFOO").get_attribute("src")

answered Jul 20 '17 at 13:32

Gaurang Shah

@cosminp you could select the answer, if it's working so it help others. – Gaurang Shah Jul 20 '17 at 13:48
Just did that. :) Quick question if I may, can I do something to look only for a substring in driver.find_element_by_id("idFOO")? I'd like something like driver.find_element_by_id("idF*"). – cosminp Jul 20 '17 at 14:13
1

yes, `driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(@id,'idF')]")` – Gaurang Shah Jul 20 '17 at 14:27
Thank you so much! – cosminp Jul 20 '17 at 15:02

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '17 at 13:34

3

Try:

src = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='rc]/h3[@class='r']/a/img").get_attribute("src")

P.S.- Used full available xpath to avoid duplicate conflicts on actual DOM.

answered Jul 20 '17 at 13:34

Rahul Chawla

2 Answers2