consider following HTML:
<div id='a'> <div> <a class='click'>abc</a> </div> </div> I want to click abc, but the wrapper div could change, so
driver.get_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='a']/div/a[@class='click']") is not what I want
i tried:
driver.get_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='a']").get_element_by_xpath(.//a[@class='click']") but this would not work with deeper nesting
any ideas?
HTML
<div id='a'> <div> <a class='click'>abc</a> </div> </div> You could use the XPATH as :
//div[@id='a']//a[@class='click'] output
<a class="click">abc</a> That said your Python code should be as :
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='a']//a[@class='click']") 
In the latest version 4.x, it is now:
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/h2/a") To import By:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By 
Selenium 4.X ~
In the real-world scenario, we need to filter the XPATH to extract the data.
For example, below Amazon's website:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B09NZ72B5X/ref=ewc_pr_img_1?smid=A3VU3XJC72QOSZ&th=1
while extracting the XPATH for an item, we get "/text()" in the end. I removed it and it worked for me.
price = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="corePriceDisplay_desktop_feature_div"]/div[1]/span[1]/span[2]/span[2]')
print(price.text)
Check this blog by Martin Thoma. I tested the below code on MacOS Mojave and it worked as specified.
> def get_browser(): > """Get the browser (a "driver").""" > # find the path with 'which chromedriver' > path_to_chromedriver = ('/home/moose/GitHub/algorithms/scraping/' > 'venv/bin/chromedriver') > download_dir = "/home/moose/selenium-download/" > print("Is directory: {}".format(os.path.isdir(download_dir))) > > from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options > chrome_options = Options() > chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', { > "plugins.plugins_list": [{"enabled": False, > "name": "Chrome PDF Viewer"}], > "download": { > "prompt_for_download": False, > "default_directory": download_dir > } > }) > > browser = webdriver.Chrome(path_to_chromedriver, > chrome_options=chrome_options) > return browser 
aelement into another element?driver.get_element_by_xpath("//a[@class='click']")?