how to extract data in selenium python when all the class with similar name?

Question

I have most of the class name are same, i am not able to extract a specific information.

 <div class="block-record-info">
    <div class="title3">Author Information</div>
    <p class="FR_field">
    <span class="FR_label">Reprint Address: </span>
    Havens, T (reprint author)
    </p>
    <table class="FR_table_noborders" rules="NONE" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
    <p/>
    <p class="FR_field">
    <span class="FR_label">Addresses:   </span>
    </p>
    <table class="FR_table_noborders" rules="NONE" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
    <p/>
    </div>
    <div class="block-record-info">
    <div class="title3">Publisher</div>
    <p class="FR_field">
    <value>SOC JAPANESE STUD, UNIV WASHINGTON THOMSON HALL DR-05, SEATTLE, WA 98195 USA</value>
    </p>
    </div>
    <div class="block-record-info">
    <div class="title3">Categories / Classification</div>
    <p class="FR_field">
    <span class="FR_label">Research Areas:</span>
    Area Studies; Asian Studies
    </p>
    <p class="FR_field">
    <span class="FR_label">Web of Science Categories:</span>
    Area Studies; Asian Studies
    </p>
    </div>

i want output like this

Publisher 

SOC JAPANESE STUD, UNIV WASHINGTON THOMSON HALL DR-05, SEATTLE, WA 98195 USA
Research Areas

Area Studies; Asian Studies

Web of Science Categories

Area Studies; Asian Studies

how do i get it?

There are several occurrences of <div class="title3">, but the one you want has the specific text Publisher, so you should be able to find it easily. What have you tried? — John Gordon
– John Gordon, Commented Jun 25, 2017 at 7:16

Monika · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-25 08:06:45Z

1

You can get the output you want by following the approach mentioned below.

Code:

# Print the "Publisher" text.
print driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='block-record-info']/div[@class='block-record-info'][1]/div").text

# Print the other paragraph text which you have specified in your output.

records = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[@class="block-record-info"]/div[@class="block-record-info"]')

for record in records:
print record.find_element_by_xpath('.//p').text

answered Jun 25, 2017 at 8:06

Monika

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