Can not get text with Selenium from web-browser alert pop-up

Question

Some website may ask me different questions with pop-up alerts.

I can catch them with Selenium (python). But can not see their text. I tried

an_alert_object = driver.switch_to.alert

and

an_alert_object = selenium.webdriver.common.alert.Alert(driver)

and

an_alert_object = WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.alert_is_present())

I do always avoid NoAlertPresentException

I can do

an_alert_object.accept()

in any way.

But I never can get an_alert_object.text it is always empty. Why? What am I doing wrong ? How can I get the text of an alert (actually it is confirm box)?

the Alert type should have a getText() method... try with an_alert_object.getText(); (and maybe cast it as Alert type... Alert an_alert_object = ...) — pcalkins, Dec 20 '21 at 17:43
@pcalkins: `.getText` is in `Java bindings`, `.text` is right method for Python. — cruisepandey, Dec 20 '21 at 17:58
to OP: Show us how does it look like? maybe through screenshot or Weburl, also can you inspect that `confirmed box` ? — cruisepandey, Dec 20 '21 at 18:01
Both .getText() and .get_text() cause AttributeError: 'Alert' object has no attribute 'getText'/'get_text' python doesn't have them — C4H7Cl2O4P, Dec 20 '21 at 20:19
I'd be glad to inspect these alerts (confirm boxes) but I don't know how. What would you lke to see with screenshot ? — C4H7Cl2O4P, Dec 20 '21 at 20:22

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2021-12-20T21:09:49.527

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Before you attempt to get the text you need to switch to the Alert first:

alert = driver.switch_to.alert()

Preferably inducing WebDriverWait for the alert_is_present() and extract the text as follows:

alert = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.alert_is_present())
time.sleep(3)
alert_text = alert.text

Referances

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

How to read the text from the alert box using Python + Selenium

edited Dec 20 '21 at 21:09

answered Dec 20 '21 at 20:02

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Of course, I did it. I mentioned it in my first example. – C4H7Cl2O4P Dec 20 '21 at 20:07
I have just tried ```an_alert_object = driver.switch_to.alert an_alert_object = WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.alert_is_present()) print(an_alert_object.text)``` and got empty alert text again. – C4H7Cl2O4P Dec 20 '21 at 20:12
@C4H7Cl2O4P Can you add a sleep in between as per the answer update? – undetected Selenium Dec 20 '21 at 20:55
When I use (EC.alert_is_present) instead of (EC.alert_is_present() ) I get , TypeError('__init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given'), – C4H7Cl2O4P Dec 20 '21 at 21:08
@C4H7Cl2O4P That was a typo, corrected. – undetected Selenium Dec 20 '21 at 21:10
I do. I rotate it in loop with time.sleep(1) Alert is ready in very first run but every loop turn alert.text is empty. But I see the text in the confirm box. – C4H7Cl2O4P Dec 20 '21 at 21:12

Can not get text with Selenium from web-browser alert pop-up

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