How to find elements by CSS selector in Selenium

CSS selectors are one of the most popular ways to parse HTML pages when web scraping. Using Selenium, to find elements by CSS selectors we can use driver.find_element() and driver.find_elements() methods:

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

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://httpbin.dev/html")

element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p')
# then we can get the element text
print(element.text)
"Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes..."
# we can also get tag name and attributes:
print(element.tag_name)
print(element.get_attribute("class"))

# for multiple elements we need to iterate
for element in driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p'):
    print(element.text)

driver.close()

Also see: How to find elements by XPath in Selenium

Question tagged: Selenium, Css Selectors, Data Parsing

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