I'm trying to get this element with Python and Selenium.

<h2 class="jobTitle jobTitle-color-purple">
    <span title="Director">Director=</span>
<h2>

This is what I tried:

try:
    title  = job.find_element_by_xpath('.//td[@class="title"]//a').text
except:
    title = job.find_element_by_xpath('.//h2[@class="title"]//a').get_attribute(name="title")

What i am doing wrong?

no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":".//h2[@hljs-string">"]//a"}

CodePudding user response：

You are using absolutely wrong locator.
The h2 element class attribute value is jobTitle jobTitle-color-purple, not title.
The child element tag name is span, not a.
Please try this:

title  = job.find_element_by_xpath('//h2[@]//span').text

You will possibly need to add a wait / delay to add before that to let the page loaded before you trying to access that element.

CodePudding user response：

To print the text Director you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h2.jobTitle > span[title]").get_attribute("innerHTML"))
  

• Using xpath and text attribute:

  print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//h2[contains(@class, 'jobTitle')]/span[@title]").text)
  

Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR and text attribute:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h2.jobTitle > span[title]"))).text)
  

• Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//h2[contains(@class, 'jobTitle')]/span[@title]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python

References

Link to useful documentation:

• get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.
• text attribute returns The text of the element.
• Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium