Playwright vs Selenium
Explore the key differences between Playwright vs Selenium in terms of performance, web scraping, and automation testing for modern web applications.
XPath selectors are one of the most popular ways to parse HTML pages when web scraping. Using Selenium, to find elements by XPath 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.XPATH, '//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.XPATH, '//p'):
print(element.text)
driver.close()
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