Using Python / Selenium to read options

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I’m having trouble pulling information from a table using Selenium. The HTML looks something like this:

<select id="software_version" name="software_version" onchange="CheckDropDownValueUIUpdate('software_version', 'software_version_image','software_version_message', 'Software Version');" style="visibility: visible;">
<option value="none">
Select a Version</option>

<option value="1732732">
12</option>

<option value="456456">
14.0.69</option>

<option value="68767">
13.62</option>

<option value="678934">
22.0.33</option>
</select>

Right clicking and selecting X-Path on Chrome for the 14.0.69 would return:

//*[@id="software_version"]/option[3]

So I put it in my code:

try:
    query = driver.find_element("xpath", '//*[@id="software_version"]/option[3]')
    SoftwareVersion = query.text
    print(SoftwareVersion)
    
except NoSuchElementException:
    new_row = {'Software': dfSoftwareName, 'Version': "Not Available"}

This yielded no result.

So I did a little reading and learned about selectByIndex and tried this:

try:
    query = driver.find_element("xpath", '//*[@id="software_version"]')
    query.selectByIndex(3);
    SoftwareVersion = query.text
    print(SoftwareVersion)

except NoSuchElementException:
    new_row = {'Software': dfSoftwareName, 'Version': "Not Available"}

But this yielded the result "AttributeError: ‘WebElement’ object has no attribute ‘selectByIndex’". At this point I don’t know where to look since the first option gave me no feedback. Thank you for any suggestions you can provide.

Asked By: Acuity

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Answer 1

You need to import the following:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

And then you can locate an option like this:

options = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//select[@id='software_version']/option")))

You can print the full list of options:

print('options:', [x.text for x in options])

Or you can print an individual one:

print('Third from the list:', options[2].text)

You can filter them by text:

the_one_youre_searching = [x for x in options if '14.0.69' in x.text][0]

You can get their attributes:

value_attribs = [x.get_attribute("value") for x in options]

Selenium documentation can be found at https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/

Answered By: Barry the Platipus

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