selenium - get parent text using selenium [duplicate]

Question

I use selenium to parse a html, but have trouble getting only the parent text. The html snippet looks like:

<p>
  <span>Who</span>
  Mario
</p>

I get the element with

div.find_element_by_xpath('p/span[contains(text/(), "Who")]../').text.strip()

But this returns all text ("Who Mario") inside the p tag. How can i only retrieve the parent text (Mario) without .replace(), etc?

Use this xpath //p/text()['Mario']/preceding-sibling::span . But selenium doesn't allow you to locate an element using text node. for solution you have to use execute_script in python to execute your xpath query and then get the result. Refer this for more stackoverflow.com/questions/45303767/… — NarendraR
– NarendraR, Commented Jan 13, 2018 at 13:16
NarendraR is very correct, if you want to directly get that text you have to use execute_script, please try ele_p=driver.finde_element_by_xpath('//p[contains(. ,"Who")]');print driver.execute_script('return arguments[0].lastChild.textContent;', ele_p) — yong
– yong, Commented Jan 14, 2018 at 4:35

johnII · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-13 12:33:20Z

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Try this one:

div.find_element_by_xpath('p/span[contains(text(), "Who")]/following-sibling::text()').text.strip()

answered Jan 13, 2018 at 12:33

johnII

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Hm, I get invalid selector is: [object Text]. It should be an element