Selenium Python: Selecting all items in a class and putting them into a list?

Question

Is there any way to get all the elements with a certain class and put into a list? for example:

<li class="Fruit">Apple</li>
<li class="Fruit">Orange</li>

I would like to put Apple and Orange in a list.

Answer 1

  driver.find_elements_by_class_name("Fruit")

Find elements returns all elements that much the given criteria ,here the class name , it returns list

you can print the text as:

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html

elems = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("Fruit")
for elem in elems:
    print(elem.text)

or

elemsText = [i.text for i in driver.find_elements_by_class_name("Fruit")]
print(elemsText]

Answer 2

To extract and print the texts e.g. Apple, Orange, etc from all of the <li class="Fruit"> using Selenium and python you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using class_name and get_attribute("textContent"):

  print([my_elem.get_attribute("textContent") for my_elem in driver.find_elements_by_class_name("Fruit")])
  

• Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print([my_elem.get_attribute("innerHTML") for my_elem in driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(".Fruit")])
  

• Using xpath and text attribute:

  print([my_elem.text for my_elem in driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[@class='Fruit']")])
  

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Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for visibility_of_all_elements_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CLASS_NAME and get_attribute("textContent"):

  print([my_elem.get_attribute("textContent") for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "Fruit")))])
  

• Using CSS_SELECTOR and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print([my_elem.get_attribute("innerHTML") for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".Fruit")))])
  

• Using XPATH and text attribute:

  print([my_elem.text for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@class='Fruit']")))])
  

• 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
  

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Outro

Link to useful documentation:

• 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