Using selenium to parse a class from browser

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I am trying to scrape a google webpage for the title inside a td, this is the code I have got so far but I am missing something.

from selenium import webdriver

case_url = "http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3Acalm&ei=7DIoVcKZNo2ZjALz8YCYCw"


driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(case_url)

elem = driver.find_element_by_class_name("ctsymbol")

print(elem[1])

assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source

driver.close()

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the class as seen on the browser is as follow:

IBA

Help!!

FDM · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-11 11:12:09Z

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There are eleven elements with this class. The method you're using, find_element_by_class_name, only returns one element. So with elem[1] you're asking for an element in a list, that's not actually a list.

If you want to have a list of all elements with this class, use find_elements_by_class_name - see http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/locating-elements.html for the difference.

answered Apr 11, 2015 at 11:12

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