I am trying the extract the text by using the CSS selector. as variables are dynamic in nature they are continuously updating.

#profileCard-ACoAABI4A30BKLei-DtaS6B6vQo-3ejw-nzI1W8-EDUCATION-en-US 

this is a CSS selector

driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#profileCard-ACoAABI4A30BKLei-DtaS6B6vQo-3ejw-nzI1W8-EDUCATION-en-US').text

x_path = //*[@id="profileCard-ACoAABI4A30BKLei-DtaS6B6vQo-3ejw-nzI1W8-EDUCATION-en-US"]
# here i tried to apply the regex
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[ends-with(@id,'EDUCATION-en-US')]") 

But I'm getting an error as 'InvalidSelectorException'.
Is there any way to get the data without error?

'ACoAABI4A30BKLei-DtaS6B6vQo-3ejw-nzI1W8' this path will be continuously updating. '#profileCard', 'EDUCATION-en-US' there will be no change in this

Any help or lead to solve the issue would be very helpful. Thanks in advance

CodePudding user response：

This should do what you are looking for:

driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[id^="profileCard-"][id$="-EDUCATION-en-US"]').text

The ^ denotes what the id should begin with.

The $ denotes what the id should end with.

CodePudding user response：

For value of id attributes like:

#profileCard-ACoAABI4A30BKLei-DtaS6B6vQo-3ejw-nzI1W8-EDUCATION-en-US

xpath doesn't supports ends-with(). Instead you can use either of the following options:

• Using xpath:

  driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[starts-with(@id, 'profileCard') and contains(@id, 'EDUCATION-en-US')]").text
  

• Using css_selector:

  driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "[id^='profileCard'][id$='EDUCATION-en-US']").text