AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'text' error finding elements within DOM

Question

I tryed find element into tree DOM but I have a problem. I wrote:

age = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id='ads']/ul/li[6]/span[2]").text

But all the time it display my the error:

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'text'

What is wrong?

Error seems self-explanatory. Did you mean `find_element` rather than `find_elements`? — ggorlen, Feb 06 '21 at 14:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '21 at 14:45

If there is just one element that you wanna get the text from use find_element instead of find_elements

age = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='ads']/ul/li[6]/span[2]").text

find_elements will give you a list of elements, to get the text of each element you have to loop over the result:

for element in browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id='ads']/ul/li[6]/span[2]"):
    element.text

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 06 '21 at 14:46

find_elements* returns a list where is text is an attribute of a WebElement.

Solution

Instead of find_elements_by_xpath() you need to use find_element_by_xpath(). Effectively your line of code will be:

age = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='ads']/ul/li[6]/span[2]").text