Guide to SeleniumBase — A Better & Easier Selenium
SeleniumBase streamlines browser automation with simple syntax, cross-browser support, and robust features, perfect for testing and web scraping.
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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