How to select element trough xpath in Selenium and Python?

Question

I want to check the innertext of a web element, but xpath does not find it even if i gave it the absolute path. I get no such element error on the line where i try to define Plaje

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Edge("D:\pariuri\python\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe")

driver.get("https://www.unibet.ro/betting#filter/all/all/all/all/in-play")

try:
    element_present = EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'KambiBC-event-result__score-list'))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 4).until(element_present)
except TimeoutException:
    print ('Timed out waiting for page to load') 

event = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('KambiBC-event-item KambiBC-event-item--type-match') 

for items in event:
   link = items.find_element_by_class_name('KambiBC-event-item__link')
   scoruri =  items.find_element_by_class_name('KambiBC-event-item__score-container') 

   scor1 =  scoruri.find_element_by_xpath(".//li[@class='KambiBC-event-result__match']/span[1]")
   scor2 =  scoruri.find_element_by_xpath(".//li[@class='KambiBC-event-result__match']/span[2]")

   print (scor1.text)
   print (scor2.text)
   if scor1.text == '0' and scor2.text == '0':

        link.click()
        Plaje = driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[@id='KambiBC-contentWrapper__bottom']/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/div/div/div[4]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div/div/ul/li[2]/ul/li[6]/div[1]/h3")
        print (Plaje.text)

//h3[@class="KambiBC-bet-offer-subcategory__label js-bet-offer-subcategory-label"]/text() use this xpath — Anurag Misra
– Anurag Misra, Commented Aug 30, 2017 at 10:34

santhosh kumar · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-30 11:31:46Z

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Always add some implicit wait after initiating the webdriver.

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(10) # seconds

Try with the below xpath.

"//h3[contains(text(),'Total goluri']"

or

"//div[@class='KambiBC-bet-offer-subcategory__container']/h3[1]"

Hope this helps. Thanks.

EDIT: Its always advisable to use the implicit wait. We can handle the same using the explicit wait also. But we need to add the explicit wait for each and every element. Also there is a good change you might miss adding explicit wait to few elements and debug again. The choice is yours always.

edited Aug 30, 2017 at 11:31

answered Aug 30, 2017 at 10:33

santhosh kumar

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santhosh kumar Over a year ago

Here i have identified the element using its inner text. If the objective is to find the innertext of that element, Can you share me the complete html DOM so that i can help you with some other xpath ways.

Rius2 Over a year ago

@ santhosh kumar to be honest i do not know how to give you the complete html DOM as it is to big to add as comment here.

santhosh kumar Over a year ago

Dude,, create a gist with the html code and share the gist link.

Rius2 Over a year ago

Interesting when i tried your answer i got the same error " no such element", but then i inserted the line you suggested driver.implicitly_wait(10) and it now works, but i read in the Selenium documentaion that the webdriver will wait for the page to load. Anyway glad it works now

santhosh kumar Over a year ago

Implicit wait doesn't wait for the page to load. It actually waits till the time for the availability of the web elements.

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Treehee · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-30 10:31:15Z

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try using .get_attriute("value") or .get_attribute("innerHTML") instead of .text

answered Aug 30, 2017 at 10:31

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Shubham Jain · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-30 10:34:48Z

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Try below :

//h3[contains(.,'Total goluri')]

hope it will help you :)

answered Aug 30, 2017 at 10:34

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