How to get text of innerHTML element?

Question

ProductNames is an array of required data when using this line:

ProductNames[3].find_element_by_css_selector('.aok-align-bottom').get_attribute("innerHTML")

I'm getting this:

<span class="a-icon-alt">4.3 out of 5 stars</span>

So how can I extract only exactly text 4.3 out of 5 stars from span tag

Wouldn't that be solved by using innerText instead of innerHTML? — Eike Pierstorff, Jul 08 '20 at 06:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '20 at 06:26

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You should include in your css_selector this >span too, and search get_attribute("innetHTML") on <span class="a-icon-alt">4.3 out of 5 stars</span>

answered Jul 08 '20 at 06:26

Norayr Sargsyan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '20 at 06:27

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Try something like this:

ProductNames[3].find_element_by_css_selector('.aok-align-bottom').get_attribute("innerHTML").text

answered Jul 08 '20 at 06:27

Haris

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this one tried but after using get_attribute it becomes string so,string has no attribute text – div47 Jul 08 '20 at 06:29

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 08 '20 at 07:06

You don't extract from innerHTML. Rather you extract text or the value of any attribute of a WebElement.

To extract the text _4.3 out of 5 stars_ you need to move one step deeper to the <span> and you can use the following Locator Strategy:

ProductNames[3].find_element_by_css_selector('.aok-align-bottom>span.a-icon-alt').get_attribute("innerHTML")

Or simply:

ProductNames[3].find_element_by_css_selector('.aok-align-bottom>span').get_attribute("innerHTML")

As an alternative, you can also use the text attribute as follows:

ProductNames[3].find_element_by_css_selector('.aok-align-bottom>span.a-icon-alt').text

Or simply:

ProductNames[3].find_element_by_css_selector('.aok-align-bottom>span').text

References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.
text attribute returns The text of the element.
Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium

How to get text of innerHTML element?

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