Get data-ref using selenium in python

Question

I have a website with such class:

<html>
    <body><div class="class1" data-ref="data"></div></body>
<html>

I want to use selenium in python 3 to get the data-ref (i.e. "data").

I know you can get the text using .text is there something like that for data-ref?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '20 at 14:14

1

Just do this:

get_attribute("attribute name")

In your case

get_attribute("data-ref")

answered Jul 08 '20 at 14:14

Norayr Sargsyan

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '20 at 14:15

You can first find the element using its xpath and then can find the data-ref value using get_attribute method.

You can do it like:

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='class1']")
# Find the value of data-ref
value = element.get_attribute("data-ref")

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '20 at 14:14

To retrieve the value of data-ref attribute i.e. data you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using XPATH:

print(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='class1']").get_attribute("data-ref"))

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

print(driver.find_element_by_xpath("div.class1").get_attribute("data-ref"))

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