Python Selenium Find Partial Link Text from a List

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I have text already scrapped into a list A=[' Workers east', ' Worker united']. What I'm trying to do is from A, find in the browser the words Worker united and click on it, I'm trying this:

driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("%s" %(A[1])).click()

But is not working, it doesn´t find the element. Below is the HTML Code and working with:

<ul style="display: block;">
    <li class="">
        <a class="text  active" href="/es/news/UK/London/workers-united---team">
            Workers United - Team
            <div style="top: -1.5px;" class="marker"></div>
        </a>
    </li>

I will appreciate any help you could give me, thanks!

The error I've got is this: selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: {"method":"partial link text","selector":" Workers United"} — Johnny007
– Johnny007, Commented Feb 22, 2016 at 1:13

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-22 01:13:17Z

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The element you have has Workers United - Team inside the text, but you are searching for Worker united - watch the s and the case.

Also, remove the leading spaces in the strings inside the A list.

answered Feb 22, 2016 at 1:13

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ddavison · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-22 01:20:59Z

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The text you are looking for is:

Worker united

The text that exists on the page is:

Workers United

Selenium is case sensitive. Capitalize the u in your python script

Additionally, as pointed out by @alecxe, your pluralization for worker is incorrect. The page displays "workers" (plural)

edited Feb 22, 2016 at 1:20

answered Feb 22, 2016 at 1:13

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Quality Analyst · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-24 02:34:44Z

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You can use XPATH: //a[contains(text(), 'Worker')]

answered May 24, 2021 at 2:34

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