Find Span Within Span Using Python and Selenium-CodePudding

I am trying to scrape the text ("9/10") in the span contained in <span class"_1JRNOw">. I had thought the code below would do it but I get a Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//span[@class='_1JRNOw']"} error.

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@class='_1JRNOw']").text

Can anyone see what I've done wrong?

CodePudding user response：

If Glad text is going to remain same, not changing dynamically (Assumption).

You could create an xpath based on Glad that could fetch you 9/10.

xpath //span[text()='Glad']//following-sibling::span/span

and try it like this :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[text()='Glad']//following-sibling::span/span").text

you could put some wait, or Explicit waits to have more stable automation script.

Update :

Use this xpath

(//div[@data-kib-type='oauth']//descendant::span)[1]

But you'd have to change the [1] to something else, may be [3] or [4]. Please do that in chrome dev tools.

PS : Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

CodePudding user response：

Try this one see if it works for you:

ele = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='_1JRNOw']/span")
print("Text is: "   ele.text)