Changing a list of element from Selenium in Python

Question

I am writing a script that will retrieve a new email and place it on my clipboard everytime I run it.

The site I am scraping runs on a javascript application. I notice an iframe at the end of the website but the js app is outside of it. But I am unable to retrieve the attribute.

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get_attribute'
[Finished in 5.8s with exit code 1]

In Python 3.6

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/user/Documents/docs/chromedriver')

url = driver.get('https://getnada.com')
element = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'span.address.what_to_copy')

print(element)

Ryan Wilson · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-03 16:14:25Z

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You are setting element to a list of elements:

 //driver.find_elements returns a list
element = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'span.address.what_to_copy')

Either you need to index your list to get the proper element:

element[0].getAttribute()

OR you need to use .find_element to select only one

answered Dec 3, 2018 at 16:14

Ryan Wilson

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mexitaw Over a year ago

Silly mistake on my part, thank you for your help Ryan

Ryan Wilson Over a year ago

@mexitaw Anytime. I was glad to help

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