Find Text By Nth Class Name is Selenium

Question

I would like to get the the Date time text on this webpage but had issues locating it. A help will be appreciated.

If I use this codde, var = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'col-md-3'))).text

I get the text in the first class (col-md-39). How do a I get the text in third class in this instance.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 04 '23 at 22:15

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You need to change the locator to get the desired result:

By.XPath, '//*[text()="Last communication"]//parent::div'

edited Feb 04 '23 at 22:15

Felix

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answered Feb 02 '23 at 13:00

Valentyna Len

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A little modification worked for me. wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='row']//div[@class='col-md-3'][.//strong[text()='Last communication']]"))).text.splitlines()[-1] – user16794957 Feb 02 '23 at 14:05
@user16794957 _`wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='row']//div[@class='col-md-3'][.//strong[text()='Last communication']]"))).text.splitlines()[-1]`_ wasn't that exactly my [answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/75323636/7429447) ? – undetected Selenium Feb 02 '23 at 14:23
Don't get me wrong. Your answer really helped me and I appreciated that. I tried using the "getattributes" in your answer which was throwing an error. All I did was to remove that and introduce "text" and post it back thinking it might help others. I used 99.9% of your response. – user16794957 Feb 02 '23 at 20:57
The difference between `get_attribute()` and `text` is almost nil, atleast for Selenium beginers :) anyways, good luck – undetected Selenium Feb 02 '23 at 22:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '23 at 13:06

The Date Time text is within a text node. So to print the text you have to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using XPATH and childNodes[n]:

print(driver.execute_script('return arguments[0].lastChild.textContent;', WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='row']//div[@class='col-md-3'][.//strong[text()='Last communication']]")))).strip())

Using XPATH and splitlines():

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='row']//div[@class='col-md-3'][.//strong[text()='Last communication']]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML").splitlines()[-1])

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

Find Text By Nth Class Name is Selenium

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