I need help finding an element with a locator

Question

I'm trying to get the elements from this xpath here is the code, there is several of these elements I cut the code down to avoid a million lines on here.

html

<keyword-text class="_nghost-fyp-81"><div class="keyword-text _ngcontent- 
fyp-81" clickabletooltiptarget="" aria-label=""><span class="keyword 
_ngcontent-fyp-81" aria-hidden="false">new york new york las vegas</span> 
<!----></div><!----><!----></keyword-text>

xpath

keyword_text = self.browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//span[starts-with(@class, 'keyword')]")

errors

<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="0f74389d-13b7-42e8-ba81-429388d6647c")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="edc98646-f4e3-4ec9-8307-c12c110a219a")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="a6e12a98-22f4-4b1b-aad1-4831dcdb00a0")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="89f50425-8d53-4292-8e33-2a268f62c8b1")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="d7af6e64-6aa9-4fd0-9f9e-034f56d69c0d")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="1566c190-3809-4c40-b0c7-1051502bc658")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="f8304581-fba4-42c9-8332-8fbe5f05daf7")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="b6d79b66-874e-4233-9100-af4242a34c1b")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="a21f9c54-0dbf-4e4c-8055-f007c1b26c80")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="1e3dcbd6-a2de-4335-8688-f5dd5391d5dd")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="61bff097-3394-4b90-93e7-c5aeb199321b")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="ddc2fe2b-1d50-4e6c-909f-3f47c704a36d")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="0061e31c-3607-43c3-a984-c28130771119")>

show your code looks like you are printing something kind of object — Dev, Sep 15 '19 at 12:16

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-15T13:11:01.070

The following console messages...

<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="0f74389d-13b7-42e8-ba81-429388d6647c")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="edc98646-f4e3-4ec9-8307-c12c110a219a")>
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="941dc1eba2f3f61bb47aa2050889d299", element="a6e12a98-22f4-4b1b-aad1-4831dcdb00a0")>

...are not any errors as such.

As you have used find_elements*, the resultant keyword_text was a list of objects of type WebElements and when you printed them, the objects were printed.

To print the texts e.g. new york new york las vegas from the several of these elements you have to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_all_elements_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

print([my_elem.text for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "keyword-text>div.keyword-text>span.keyword")))])

Using XPATH:

print([my_elem.text for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//keyword-text/div[contains(@class, 'keyword-text')]/span[contains(@class, 'keyword')]")))])

Note : You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

`keyword_text = self.browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//span[starts-with(@class, 'keyword')]") for keyw in keyword_text: print(keyw) ` this is how I printed it out — user2217947, Sep 15 '19 at 12:55
@user2217947 Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status. — undetected Selenium, Sep 15 '19 at 13:03
oh yes that worked is this code from remote webdriver I will have to read more into that. — user2217947, Sep 15 '19 at 13:33
@user2217947 Feel free to raise a new question as per your new requirement. StackOverflow contributors will be happy to help you out. — undetected Selenium, Sep 15 '19 at 13:38
now I feel silly, I was able to get the original code working by adding .text haha your code reminded me @user2217947 — user2217947, Sep 15 '19 at 14:20

I need help finding an element with a locator

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