Getting the HTML element using Selenium WebDriver

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I’m trying to get price of a product on amazon using Selenium:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

url = 
"https://www.amazon.in/Celevida-Kesar-Elaichi-Flavor-Metal/dp/B081WJ6536/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3NRZERQ8H4T8L&keywords=dr+reddys+celevida&qid=1672124472&sprefix=%2Caps%2C5801&sr=8-5"

services = Service(r"C:UsersDeepak Shetterchromedriver_win32chromedriver.exe")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=services)
driver.get(url)
price = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "a-offscreen")
print("price is "+price.text)

As you can see in this image the html for the price is of class="a-offscreen". But when I run my code on pycharm it return None. How can I get the price string? (btw I checked it using Beautiful soup and it worked fine)

Edit :
This time I used another url : https://www.amazon.in/Avvatar-Alpha-Choco-Latte-Shaker/dp/B08S3TNGYK/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=ofFKu&content-id=amzn1.sym.1f592895-6b7a-4b03-9d72-1a40ea8fbeca&pf_rd_p=1f592895-6b7a-4b03-9d72-1a40ea8fbeca&pf_rd_r=PT3Y6GWJ7YHADW09VKNK&pd_rd_wg=lBWZa&pd_rd_r=0a44c278-bcfa-49c2-806b-cf8eb292038a&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m

In this case it has 2 price elements one with the class="a-offscreen" and another one with calss="a-price-whole".

my code :

price = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "a-price-whole")

this time return value is 1,580.

Asked By: Deepak

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Answer 1

Using Safari, the following code works:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

with webdriver.Safari() as driver:
    driver.get('https://www.amazon.in/Celevida-Kesar-Elaichi-Flavor-Metal/dp/B081WJ6536/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3NRZERQ8H4T8L&keywords=dr+reddys+celevida&qid=1672124472&sprefix=%2Caps%2C5801&sr=8-5')
    price = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "a-offscreen")
    print(price.text)

Which gives this output:

₹566.00

Therefore it appears that your use of the ChromeDriver may be flawed

Answered By: Fred

Answer 2

The following code works:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")

webdriver_service = Service('C:webdriverschromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, service=webdriver_service)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

url = "https://www.amazon.in/Celevida-Kesar-Elaichi-Flavor-Metal/dp/B081WJ6536/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3NRZERQ8H4T8L&keywords=dr+reddys+celevida&qid=1672124472&sprefix=%2Caps%2C5801&sr=8-5"
driver.get(url)
price = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#corePrice_desktop .a-span12 .apexPriceToPay"))).text
print(price)

The output is:

₹566

Answered By: Prophet

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