I am trying to access the People also ask panel content on the Google search results page for a given search and to extract the question and answer text of the presented questions. However, when I try to access the compound class, with browser.find_elements_by_class_name("_Tgc _s8w _y9e")I get an error and I've tried to fix it by using browser.find_elements_by_class_name("._Tgc._s8w._y9e") but then I get no results? I can't find out how else to access the HTML text, any help is much appreciated! Thank you!
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Figured it out, for anyone else who comes across this question: – zipzip12 Jan 08 '18 at 02:27
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browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[@class='_Tgc _s8w _y9e']") – zipzip12 Jan 08 '18 at 02:27
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Possible duplicate of [Compound class names not permitted error Webdriver](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32043877/compound-class-names-not-permitted-error-webdriver) – JeffC Jan 08 '18 at 04:06
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You should probably post your own answer as the answer so others can benefit. – Daniel Jan 09 '18 at 04:26
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Figured it out, for anyone else who comes across this question: browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[@class='_Tgc _s8w _y9e']")
by using xpath you can reference compound classes
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This is not a safe solution. The DOM class attribute is a space-separated **list** of class names, and the order is not guaranteed. – SiKing Jan 10 '18 at 00:10