How to get a specific text out from span class in Python (selenium)

Question

I have the following span class:

<span class="k-pager-info k-label">1 - 25 of 93995 items</span>

and its Xpath is //*[@id="registerGrid"]/div[3]/span

I would like to get the number 93995 out.

I have tried the following:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("""//*[@id="registerGrid"]/div[3]/span""")).getText()

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<pyshell#47>", line 1, in <module>
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("""//*[@id="registerGrid"]/div[3]/span""")).getText()
AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'findElement'

What shall I do then?

I hope that you are using selenium with python, please use proper syntax — bhansa
– bhansa, Commented May 16, 2017 at 9:47
I am using selenium with python... are they not proper syntax? — user3918496
– user3918496, Commented May 16, 2017 at 9:49

Himanshu dua · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-16 10:14:40Z

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Syntax error: Use driver.find_element instead of driver.findElement

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="registerGrid"]/div[3]/span')
text = element.text

Refer selenium docs for locating the elements

edited May 16, 2017 at 10:14

answered May 16, 2017 at 9:33

Himanshu dua

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user3918496 Over a year ago

Thank you for reply... but when I added this with .getText(), I got error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#52>", line 1, in <module> driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="registerGrid"]/div[3]/span').getText() AttributeError: 'WebElement' object has no attribute 'getText'

Exprator · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-16 09:53:33Z

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from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="registerGrid"]/div[3]/span')

you made a mistake it will be find_element and text only not getText()

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="registerGrid"]/div[3]/span').text

answered May 16, 2017 at 9:53

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