How do I iterate through elements in Selenium and Python?

Question

I am trying to get to the texts inside the span tags by iterating through the li list of this HTML:

<ol class="KambiBC-event-result__score-list">
    <li class="KambiBC-event-result__match">
        <span class="KambiBC-event-result__points">1</span>
        <span class="KambiBC-event-result__points">1</span>
    </li>
</ol>

but i am getting the error

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find_element_by_class_name'

on my code:

meci = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('KambiBC-event-result__match')

for items in meci:

 scor = meci.find_element_by_class_name('KambiBC-event-result__points')


 print (scor.text)

Simon David · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-18 11:54:13Z

5

You are not using items inside the loop. You loop should be

meci = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('KambiBC-event-result__match')

for items in meci:
    scor = items.find_element_by_class_name('KambiBC-event-result__points')
    print(scor.text)

meci.find_element_by_class_name should be items.find_element_by_class_name

Update for Selenium 4

As mentioned in this Stack Overflow post, the find_element_by_* methods are deprecated from Selenium 4 onwards. Therefore, the solution would need to be modified as follows:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

meci = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, 'KambiBC-event-result__match')

for items in meci:
    scor = items.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'KambiBC-event-result__points')
    print(scor.text)

edited Oct 18, 2023 at 11:54

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Rius2 Over a year ago

Well, do i fell stupid now, also how do i access only the second child?

B T · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-25 04:07:27Z

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To answer your second comment, all you need to do is add ":nth-child(2)" to the end of the class name.

The class 'KambiBC-event-result__points' would read 'KambiBC-event-result__points:nth-child(2)' to only access the second child.

answered Jun 25, 2020 at 4:07

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