Get Text from specific tag in Python Selenium

Question

I would like to get the text inside this specific element here

<div class="comment-text-inner display-inline" data-clipboard-text="free apex coins">free apex coins</div>

How do I get the text from "data-clipboard-text" using python and selenium?

I've tried

comment = driver.find_element_by_xpath("""/html/body/div[3]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[4]/div[2]/div/div[1]""").text

With no luck

That xpath depends on the entire document structure, which you haven't shown us, so we don't know why it isn't working. — John Gordon, Feb 24 '19 at 17:46
Well, i get the same output if I use the classname "comment-text-inner" — Abu Ahmed Al-Suedi, Feb 24 '19 at 17:48
What the comment variable consists of after this line is "loading". Which isn't anywhere in the element. — Abu Ahmed Al-Suedi, Feb 24 '19 at 17:52
Possible duplicate of [How to get attribute of element from Selenium?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30324760/how-to-get-attribute-of-element-from-selenium) — JeffC, Feb 24 '19 at 18:18

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '19 at 17:51

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I think you're looking for the method get_attribute().

Essentially, it'd be something like:

driver.find_element_by_xpath(<your xpath>).get_attribute("data-clipboard-text")

Please see this post as well.

answered Feb 24 '19 at 17:51

clurd

He said he wanted the text. I don't think he wants the attribute value (though in this example they are the same). – John Gordon Feb 24 '19 at 17:52
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His question specifically states _How do I get the text from "data-clipboard-text" using python and selenium?_ – clurd Feb 24 '19 at 17:54

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