Using text attribute to retrieve text with Selenium in Python

Question

I'm trying to execute this:

driver.get(websitelink)
sleep(3)

element = driver.find_element_by_id("canvasCaption").text
print('text is:',element)

In order to get text from here :

<div class="a-column a-span12 a-text-center"> 
  <span id="canvasCaption" class="a-color-secondary">Haz clic para obtener una vista ampliada</span> 
</div>

The output is only :

text is:

But it should be:

text is:  Haz clic para obtener una vista ampliada

Also gived a try with:

element = driver.find_element_by_class_name("a-color-secondary").text

But same output.

Can anyone help please ?

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undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2022-01-20T20:32:19.443

To print the text Haz clic para obtener una vista ampliada you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span#canvasCaption").get_attribute("innerHTML"))

Using xpath and text attribute:

print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[@id='canvasCaption']").text)

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

Using CSS_SELECTOR and text attribute:

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span#canvasCaption"))).text)

Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@id='canvasCaption']"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))

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

You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python

References

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

Using text attribute to retrieve text with Selenium in Python

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