Use Python Selenium to get span text

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This should be easy, but I can’t get it to work. I’m running a little demo using the Google homepage as a test.

Here’s my script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get("http://www.google.com") # Load page

time.sleep(0.2)

#top nav elements
elems = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//span[contains(@class, 'gbts')]") 

for e in elems:
    print e.get_attribute('text')

browser.close()

It returns:

None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None

So I think it’s grabbing the right elements, but perhaps not the right attribute? Not sure. I also tried to print e.text() but that spit out:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sample.py", line 14, in <module>
    print e.text()
TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable

Any thoughts?

*Edit – Possible Solution? *

e.get_attribute('innerHTML') seems to work.

Asked By: doremi

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Answer 1

This should do it:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("http://www.google.com")
for elem in browser.find_elements_by_xpath('.//span[@class = "gbts"]'):
    print elem.text

text is a property of the WebElement class, thus it is not callable.

class WebElement(object):
    """Represents an HTML element.       
    ...
    ...

    @property
    def text(self):
        """Gets the text of the element."""
        return self._execute(Command.GET_ELEMENT_TEXT)['value']

You have two alternatives to get the third match:

#  1. Modify your xpath expression
browser.find_elements_by_xpath('(.//span[@class = "gbts"])[3]')[0].text

#  2. Access it by list index
browser.find_elements_by_xpath('.//span[@class = "gbts"])')[2].text

Answered By: root

Answer 2

YES ! Solution was found (I`am using Python)
For instanc: webelement is a p tag

webelement.text()

from real situation, stacktrace:

print page_box_block.text()
TypeError: ‘unicode’ object is not callable

it expect to be a html in stdout, but not !

sometimes could be a strange string “unicode object is not callable” or some type error
solution is very easy:

print element.get_attribute("innerHTML")

In java get_attribute(“innerHTML”) and text() are about to “same”, if you need plain text from element
In Python 2.7 for now text() sometimes fails.

Answered By: user3252247

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