How to get the some text value in this html with Selenium Webdriver using Python?

Question

How can I get the text value "This Text 1" and "This Text 2" with selemiun and python from the following html code:

<p>
   <b>Studio:</b>
   <a href="http://www.somelink.com/some_page/">This Text 1</a>
   " | "
   <b>Director:</b> This Text 2
</p>

I have tried in several ways like with this:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Director:')]")

but without get the result.

Possible duplicate of [How to get text with selenium web driver in python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20996392/how-to-get-text-with-selenium-web-driver-in-python) — trotta, Jul 11 '19 at 08:11

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '19 at 09:36

To get the text This Text 1 and This Text 2 Use following options.

To get This Text 1 Use following xpath

print(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//p/b[contains(.,'Studio')]/following::a").text)

Use JavaScript Executor to fetch This Text 2

element=driver.execute_script('return arguments[0].lastChild.textContent;', driver.find_element_by_xpath("//p[contains(.,'Director')]"))
print(element.strip())

How to get the some text value in this html with Selenium Webdriver using Python?

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