How to extract the values of the alt atributte within img with selenium python

Question

I have the following problem, I haven't been able to solve it. I have to extract the text that appears in an alt attribute of an image. The id always changes, as does the contained alt.

Example

I noticed that the id only changes in this part

//*[@id="j_id1102997597_32d04ef7:0:j_id1102997597_32d04d36:**2**:j_id1102997597_32d04d7a:**2**:j_id1102997597_32d04d8e:j_id415163359_4cfbfc60"]
//*[@id="j_id1102997597_32d04ef7:0:j_id1102997597_32d04d36:**1**:j_id1102997597_32d04d7a:**1**:j_id1102997597_32d04d8e:j_id415163359_4cfbfc60"]
//*[@id="j_id1102997597_32d04ef7:0:j_id1102997597_32d04d36:**0**:j_id1102997597_32d04d7a:**0**:j_id1102997597_32d04d8e:j_id415163359_4cfbfc60"]

Anyway, I am still unable to log in.

Hi @ArundeepChohan it is correct ? Imagen = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,"//*contains(@id,'j_id1102997597_32d04ef7:0:j_id1102997597_32d04d36:')]").get_attribute('alt') — Daniela Quila, Jul 21 '22 at 17:27
Yes, but it is in spanish https://www.santander.cl/cotizador-web/ — Daniela Quila, Jul 21 '22 at 17:52
in that case, can you post screenshot of the element you want to extract — Himanshu Poddar, Jul 21 '22 at 17:55
https://i.stack.imgur.com/LrJmu.png I want to extract alt text — Daniela Quila, Jul 21 '22 at 17:58
I don't see this element on this exact page https://www.santander.cl/cotizador-web/ — Himanshu Poddar, Jul 21 '22 at 18:03
Yes, you have to fill in all these data, otherwise, the table with the images does not appear. — Daniela Quila, Jul 21 '22 at 19:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '22 at 23:05

To extract and print the values of the alt attribute you have to induce WebDriverWait for visibility_of_all_elements_located() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

print([my_elem.get_attribute("alt") for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.matriz table > tbody tr.filaMatriz > td > img[alt]")))])

Using XPATH:

print([my_elem.get_attribute("alt") for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='matriz']//table/tbody//tr[@class='filaMatriz']/td/img[@alt]")))])

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

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '22 at 19:29

You can use BeautifulSoup for this (install with pip install bs4):

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(browser.page_source, 'html.parser')

images = soup.select_one('div.text-center').select('img')

for image in images:
print(image.get('alt'))

How to extract the values of the alt atributte within img with selenium python

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