How to extract text from aria-label attribute?

Question

So basically I am trying to work on webscraping. I need to scrap the work life balance rating from indeed website. But the challenge that I am facing is that I do not know how to extract the text from the aria-label, so I can get the output 4.0 out of 5 stars.

<div role="img" aria-label="4.0 out of 5 stars."><div class="css-eub7j6 eu4oa1w0"><div data-testid="filledStar" style="width:42.68px" class="css-i84nrz eu4oa1w0"></div></div></div>

You wrote me you having an error. What is the error? Can you share a link to the page you working on? — Prophet, Jan 17 '23 at 11:01

KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-17T10:57:19.613

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You need to identify the element and use the get attribute aria-label to get the value.

If you are using python. code will be

print(diver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@role='img']").get_attribute("aria-label"))

Update:

print(diver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@role='img' and @aria-label]").get_attribute("aria-label"))

Or

print(diver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@role='img' and @aria-label][.//div[@data-testid='filledStar']]").get_attribute("aria-label"))

edited Jan 17 '23 at 10:57

answered Jan 17 '23 at 10:44

KunduK

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giving me errors. Yes I am using python. @KunduK – Annie Dhawan Jan 17 '23 at 10:51
@AnnieDhawan, Sorry typo. Can you try now? – KunduK Jan 17 '23 at 10:54
It is not giving me an error now but it is printing None, not giving me 4 out of 5 stars – Annie Dhawan Jan 17 '23 at 10:56
@AnnieDhawan, try updated one. Have provided wait to page load properly. – KunduK Jan 17 '23 at 10:58
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I got the result using the updated one but I have one doubt can I text you here? – Annie Dhawan Jan 17 '23 at 11:01
@AnnieDhawan, Yes you can. I'll try to resolve your query. – KunduK Jan 17 '23 at 11:04
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/251205/discussion-between-annie-dhawan-and-kunduk). – Annie Dhawan Jan 17 '23 at 11:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '23 at 10:43

In case you can locate that element attribute value can be retrieven with selenium with get_attribute() method.
Let's say you are using By.CSS_SELECTOR and the locator is css_selector.
Python syntax is:

aria_label_value = driver.driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, css_selector).get_attribute("aria-label")

Same can be done with other programming languages similarly with slight syntax changes

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 17 '23 at 10:58

To retrive the value of the aria-label attribute i.e. "4.0 out of 5 stars." 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 role="img":

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[role='img'][aria-label]"))).get_attribute("aria-label"))

Using XPATH and data-testid="filledStar":

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@data-testid='filledStar']//ancestor::div[@role='img' and @aria-label]"))).get_attribute("aria-label"))

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 Python Selenium - get href value

How to extract text from aria-label attribute?

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