Get some text with java + selenium WebDriver

Question

I want to get only the text "Invitation sent to xxxxx", I do not want to get what's inside the

<button class="action" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-3995="3995">
          Visualizar perfil
 </button>

I'm getting the text this way:

String pessoapopu = driver.findElement(By.className("artdeco-toast-message")).getText();                
System.out.println(pessoapopu);

Page structure:

<div class="artdeco-toast-inner" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-3994="3994">
    <li-icon aria-hidden="true" type="success-pebble-icon" class="artdeco-toast-icon"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="24px" height="24px" x="0" y="0" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" class="artdeco-icon"><g class="large-icon" style="fill: currentColor">
        <g id="success-pebble-icon">
          <g>
            <circle class="circle" r="9.1" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.8" cx="12" cy="12" fill="none" transform="rotate(-90 12 12)"></circle>
            <path d="M15.667,8L17,9.042l-5.316,7.36c-0.297,0.395-0.739,0.594-1.184,0.599c-0.455,0.005-0.911-0.195-1.215-0.599l-2.441-3.456l1.416-1.028l2.227,3.167L15.667,8z" fill="currentColor"></path>
            <rect style="fill:none;" width="24" height="24"></rect>
          </g>
        </g>
        <g id="Layer_1">
        </g>
      </g></svg></li-icon>
    <p class="artdeco-toast-message">
              Invitation sent to xxxxx
        <button class="action" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-3995="3995">
          Visualizar perfil
        </button>

    </p>
  </div>

Wait for the element to be visible and try the same code.. A guess. — santhosh kumar
– santhosh kumar, Commented Jul 25, 2017 at 12:56
@Paulo, What you getting as output ? complete text including button text ? or any error ? — NarendraR
– NarendraR, Commented Jul 25, 2017 at 12:56
@Tuks I get the full text, even what's inside the button, which is text irrelevant to me. — Paulo Roberto
– Paulo Roberto, Commented Jul 25, 2017 at 13:00

NarendraR · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-27 12:30:45Z

You can use //p[@class='artdeco-toast-message']/text() xpath to locate the Invitation sent to xxxxx text but selenium doesn't support text() method in xpath to locate a text node.

Either if you try to locate the element using below xpath to exclude the button text by using not() function of xpath :

//p[@class='artdeco-toast-message']/node()[not(self::button)]

Again it locating the element using text node so Selenium doesn't allow this

Here one solution available to execute same xpath i.e. JavascriptExecutor

Use evaluate() method of JavaScript and evaluate your xpath using JavascriptExecutor

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
Object message = js.executeScript("var value = document.evaluate(\"//p[@class='artdeco-toast-message']/text()\",document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null ); return value.stringValue;");
System.out.println(message.toString().trim());

OR

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
Object message = js.executeScript("var value = document.evaluate(\"//p[@class='artdeco-toast-message']/node()[not(self::button)]\",document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null ); return value.stringValue;");
System.out.println(message.toString().trim());

It will give you the expected result. No need to get all data and then formatting using String functions.

You can explore evaluate() in detail from here

Andrii Yaremchuk · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-25 13:40:43Z

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In fact Selenium's getText() method retrieves all the text in sub elements too, so the approach, recommended by Murthi is the most applicable, as far as I know. Try this approach:

String newLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");
String pessoapopu = driver.findElement(By.className("artdeco-toast-message"))
                           .getText().replaceAll(newLine, "");

Or try/ask for more convenient HTML code.

answered Jul 25, 2017 at 13:40

Andrii Yaremchuk

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NarendraR Over a year ago

is there any way to handle this using only xpath ?

Andrii Yaremchuk Over a year ago

I'm thinking of 'and not()' xpath method, but not sure about it.

JeffC Over a year ago

This doesn't do what OP asked... I'm not sure why it's marked as the answer.

Murthi · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-25 13:05:05Z

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You can try with the following code.

WebElement text=driver.findElement(By.className("artdeco-toast-message"));
String wholeText = text.getText();
String unWantedText=text.findElement(By.className("action")).getText();
String RequiredText=wholeText.replace(unWantedText,"");
System.out.println(RequiredText);

edited Jul 25, 2017 at 13:05

answered Jul 25, 2017 at 12:56

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Paulo Roberto Over a year ago

Did not work "The method getText() is undefined for the type By"

Paulo Roberto Over a year ago

It worked in parts, it is tripling the mesnagem in the console: Invitation sent to Mauro Santos Invitation sent to Mauro Santos Invitation sent to Mauro Santos and it does not find the element in the next pass no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"class name","selector":"action"}

Murthi Over a year ago

may be the button with the class name "action" is not there in the next pass. You can check the html code or give us the full code.

JeffC · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-25 17:27:22Z

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Given the HTML, you should be able to .getText(), split that text on a newline, and then take the first split to get the text you want.

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("p.artdeco-toast-message")).getText().split("\r\n")[0];

answered Jul 25, 2017 at 17:27

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