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How to copy text with selenium xpath? When I writing 

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rankingItem-value js-countable']").text

I get next error: 

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 15, in <module> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'text'

full code:

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys import time driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get('https://www.similarweb.com/') driver.find_element_by_id("js-swSearch-input").send_keys("www.pornhub.com") driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button.swSearch-submit").click() #self.driver.implicitly_wait(30) time.sleep(10) content = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rankingItem-value js-countable']").text print(content)

I need to copy site's global rank to a table, "22" one. How?

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  • find_elements_by_xpath returns a list of elements. You have to iterate the elements and retrieve the text from each element. Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 16:22
  • Possible duplicate of How to select element with Selenium Python xpath Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 16:39

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To select required element you need to use find_element_by_xpath(xpath) method (that will return first web-element matched by xpath) or find_elements_by_xpath(xpath)[0] (that will return first web-element from list of elements matched by xpath). Also your XPath is incorrect as there is no div with class="rankingItem-value js-countable"- you need span instead. So try following:

content = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[@class="rankingItem-value js-countable"]').text

or 

content = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@class="rankingItem-value js-countable"]')[0].text

If you need to get "Country rank" or "Category rank", use below:

content_of_country_rank = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@class="rankingItem-value js-countable"]')[1].text content_of_category_rank = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@class="rankingItem-value js-countable"]')[2].text
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Try 

content = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rankingItem-value js-countable']") for c in content: print c.text

It's a good practice to use find_elements_by_xpath because if you find nothing in the path, content[0] will be empty, but if you use find_element_by_xpath and you find nothing in the path, you will get an error

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You are getting an error because you are trying to call the function on the list object.

You are using find_elements which returns a list of web elements and not find_element

I am not sure what you are trying to achieve but if you trying to print the content of all the elements then the following code should work.

elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rankingItem-value js-countable']") content = "".join([element.text for element in elements]) print(content)
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