Selenium(Python) alternative to for loop with index

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Is there a more efficient way of reading classes with the same name, rather than doing what im doing, i basically go through a code with index, because they all have the same name, is there a better way if selecting elements with the same class name, rather than the way i am doing it

Z = len(driver.find_elements_by_class_name('Class_With_Names'))

for x in range(Z):

x += 1

thisClass = driver.find_element_by_xpath(f"//ul[@class='same_name']/div[{str(x)}]")
classText = thisClass.find_element_by_class_name("class_with_text")

print(classText.text)

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '21 at 03:18

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Have you tried using the find_elements_by_xpath? This will return all of the elements with that class name.

Your code looks like it is incrementing after the div though? Are you just looking for information on all of the classes or to loop through the divs?

answered Jan 22 '21 at 03:18

sjuice10

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well that does work, but when each of those elements have a text, it doesnt print all of the text, gives me some sort of list error – ExoticLegend714 Jan 22 '21 at 03:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '21 at 06:51

Avoiding the index you can use the following Locator Strategy:

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 css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

print([my_elem.get_attribute("innerHTML") for my_elem in driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("ul.same_name div")])

Using xpath and text attribute:

print([my_elem.text for my_elem in driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//ul[@class='same_name']//div")])

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

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, "ul.same_name div")))])

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, "//ul[@class='same_name']//div")))])

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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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

Selenium(Python) alternative to for loop with index

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