Selenium - How to identify li item based on value

Question

I have the following list in a webpage that I am trying to scrape:

<div class="rcbScroll rcbWidth" style="height: 54px; width: 100%;">
<ul class="rcbList">
<li class="rcbItem">Jules Salles-Wagner (FRENCH, 1814–1898)</li>
<li class="rcbItem">Peter Nadin (BRITISH, 1954)</li>
<li class="rcbItem">Uri Aran (ISRAELI, 1977)</li>
</ul>
</div>

I want to select the item that contains the text Uri Aran. How can I do that through Selenium? There are other lists with different class name in the same website as well.

Arundeep Chohan · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-24T02:13:41.130

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driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//li[@class='rcbItem' and contains(text(),'Uri Aran')]").click()

You'd want to get the one that contains the text of Uri Aran.

edited Feb 24 '22 at 02:13

answered Feb 24 '22 at 01:39

Arundeep Chohan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 24 '22 at 22:28

To locate the element with text Uri Aran 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 nth-child():

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.rcbScroll.rcbWidth > ul.rcbList li:nth-child(3)")))

Using CSS_SELECTOR and nth-of-type():

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.rcbScroll.rcbWidth > ul.rcbList li:nth-of-type(3)")))

Using CSS_SELECTOR and last-child:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.rcbScroll.rcbWidth > ul.rcbList li:last-child")))

Using CSS_SELECTOR and last-of-type:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.rcbScroll.rcbWidth > ul.rcbList li:last-of-type")))

Using XPATH and index:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='rcbScroll rcbWidth']/ul[@class='rcbList']//following::li[3]")))

Using XPATH and last():

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='rcbScroll rcbWidth']/ul[@class='rcbList']//li[last()]")))

Using XPATH and innerText:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//li[starts-with(., 'Uri Aran')]")))

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

Selenium - How to identify li item based on value

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