Selenium python : How to extract message from alert?

Question

I am trying to extract message from alert message in selenium python

<div ng-hide="authorizationMessage">
<div class="ng-valid-maxlength ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-valid ng-valid-required" ng-form="cohortForm">
<div class="alert alert-success ng-binding" role="alert" ng-show="message">
<a class="close" href="" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="close">×</a>
  **Cohort definition is created successfully.**
</div>

I tried doing

var1 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/div[1]/div/div/div[3]/div/div[1]").get_attribute('text')
print var1

But it printed None.

How should I extract message - "Cohort definition is created successfully." from above HTML page?

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13 11:14:09Z

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get_attribute('text') it's not what you actually need to use to get text from target div element

You can simply use text property or get textContent attribute as below:

print(driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.alert.alert-success.ng-binding').text)
print(driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.alert.alert-success.ng-binding').get_attribute('textContent'))

answered Apr 13, 2017 at 11:14

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4 Comments

JeffC Over a year ago

Because the A tag is also contained in the target DIV, you will get an X at the beginning of that string but there's not really much you can do about that short of removing it, etc.

Andersson Over a year ago

ok...

print(driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.alert.alert-success.ng-binding').get_attribute('textContent').replace('\xd7', ''))

should allow to get rid of "x"

JeffC Over a year ago

It wasn't a complaint, it was merely an FYI to OP because he's likely to see this seemingly random X show up in the returned text.

Sachetan Over a year ago

Thank you Andersson and JeffC , I tried this solution. But it resulted in printing 'x' not the message "Cohort definition is created successfully."

user15457130 · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-06 02:13:53Z

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To extract notification message values from selenium, paste the .text after them.

This is an example code for you.

var1 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/div[1]/div/div/div[3]/div/div[1]").text

answered May 6, 2021 at 2:13

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