I can't find how to get text with selenium python

Question

i try to get the content of

<span class="noactive">0&nbsp;Jours restants</span>

(which is the expiration date of the warranty) but i don't know how to get it (i need to print it in a file)

my code

def scrapper_lenovo(file, line):
   CHROME_PATH = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe'
   CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = 'C:\webdriver\chromedriver'
   WINDOW_SIZE = "1920,1080"
   chrome_options = Options()  
   chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
   chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=%s" % WINDOW_SIZE)
   chrome_options.binary_location = CHROME_PATH
   d = driver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH,
                          chrome_options=chrome_options)  
   d.get("https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/fr/fr/warrantylookup")
   search_bar = d.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="input_sn"]')
   search_bar.send_keys(line[19])
   search_bar.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
   time.sleep(4)
   try:
      warrant = d.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="W-Warranties"]/section/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/p[1]/span')
      file.write(warrant)
   except:
      print ("test")
      pass
   if ("In Warranty" not in d.page_source):
    file.write(line[3])
    file.write("\n")
   d.close()

i tried as you can see to print the content of 'warrant' and i couldn't find any function allowing it (i saw some using .text(), .gettext() but for whatever reasons i couldn't get them to work).

i tried what was in this page but i couldn't get it to work, maybe i missed an include or used text/gettext wrongly — Aldric Liottier, Aug 09 '19 at 08:46

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '19 at 16:33

You could try explicitly matching the required tag, the relevant XPath expression would be:

//span[@class='noactive']

I would also recommend getting of this time.sleep() function, it's some form of a performance anti-pattern, if you need to wait for presence/visibility/invisibility/absence of a certain element you should rather go for Explicit Wait

So remove these lines:

time.sleep(4)
warrant = d.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="W-Warranties"]/section/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/p[1]/span')

and use this one instead:

warrant = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='noactive']")))

More information: How to use Selenium to test web applications using AJAX technology

Presence is just that the element is in the DOM but not necessarily visible. If you are going to pull the text, the element needs to be visible so you would want `visibility_of_element_located`. Also, OP wants the text from the element so you need to add `.text`. — JeffC, Aug 08 '19 at 17:26

I can't find how to get text with selenium python

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