Scraping - How to find tag of a webelement using selenium in python

Question

For instance if i have a webelement and i want to check if it contains h2 tag or not.. is it possible? if yes then how

from selenium import webdriver
import re
import pandas as pd
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
chrome_path = r"C:\Users\ajite\Desktop\web scraping\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)
driver.get('....')

header = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[5]/div[2]/div/ol/li[1]/div/div/div[1]/h2')

if header.contains('h2'):
    print("successful")
else:
    print("unsuccesful")

header variable contains h2 tag but i cannot use header.contains since its a webelement and not a text

Error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test2.py", line 11, in <module>
    if header.contains('h2'):
AttributeError: 'WebElement' object has no attribute 'contains'

Can you sumup your Manual Step along with the relevant HTML please? — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Feb 11, 2018 at 6:31

Pradeep hebbar · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-11 14:16:32Z

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You can use the tag_name method to get the tag name of the webelement like below.

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_path = r"path"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)
driver.get("http://www.google.co.in")
print ("Launching chrome")
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@title="Search"]')
print("element.tag_name "+element.tag_name)
if element.tag_name == "input":
    print("successful")
else:
    print("unsuccesful")
driver.quit()

edited Feb 11, 2018 at 14:16

answered Feb 11, 2018 at 7:50

Pradeep hebbar

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Pradeep hebbar Over a year ago

@RatmirAsanov , its not about python or java , its about selenium. if selenium provide some method for java means it obviously provide in python too. I have updated and verified my code

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-11 17:36:53Z

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If you want to check if the webelement contains ` tag or not you can use the following code block :

header = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[5]/div[2]/div/ol/li[1]/div/div/div[1]/h2')
if 'h2' in header.tag_name:
    print("successful")
else:
    print("unsuccesful")

answered Feb 11, 2018 at 17:36

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