How to extract the Clock Time from Website Javascript js.clock()

Question

Is it possible to extract the time from the site: https://w2.leisurelink.lcsd.gov.hk/index/index.jsp

I am using selenium, and seems like the time is generated from a javascript, so extracting the text for the element wouldn't work.

`js_time= driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@name='theClock']") val = driver.execute_script("arguments[0].value;", js_time) print(val)` .. just run this, you may have to change the xpath as I am not certain which node you really want to locate. — cruisepandey, Dec 12 '21 at 12:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '21 at 12:50

To extract the time you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

driver.get("https://w2.leisurelink.lcsd.gov.hk/index/index.jsp")
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='theTime']"))).get_attribute("value"))

Using XPATH:

driver.get("https://w2.leisurelink.lcsd.gov.hk/index/index.jsp")
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='theTime']"))).get_attribute("value"))

Console Output:
```
12-12-2021 20:45:15
```

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

How to extract the Clock Time from Website Javascript js.clock()

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