How to replace a button text with customized text using Selenium Python (MacOS)?

Question

I want to basically do a temporary edit to a webpage (like how people do it using inspect element) but have it done automatically using selenium. For example this is an image from google.ca :

https://i.sstatic.net/CSXi9.jpg

I simply want to change the text of "Gmail" and "Images" into whatever I want.

I only have this so far:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/--------/Downloads/chromedriver')
browser.get("https://google.ca/")
x = browser.find_element_by_id('Gmail')

Is there a way I can do this?

@SuperStew I just want it so that when the browser is ran, it has my custom text in it. — Atomization
– Atomization, Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 23:24
I don't think you can set attributes with selenium unfortunately. — SuperStew
– SuperStew, Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 23:30
@SuperStew Do you know any libraries that support this by any chance? — Atomization
– Atomization, Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 23:33

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-14 08:03:39Z

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To replace the text of a WebElement within a webpage e.g. the LINK_TEXT Gmail on Google Home Page with a customized text e.g. Atomization you can use the following solution:

Code Block:

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

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.ca/')
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Gmail")))
driver.execute_script("document.querySelector('div#viewport a').innerText = 'Atomization'")

Browser Snapshot:

answered Jan 14, 2020 at 8:03

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Atomization Over a year ago

So this does work, However, it doesnt change the gmail. it changes the left side of the browser where it says "About" beside Store. I'm just gonna treat this as an answer though. Thanks!

pguardiario · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-14 00:05:59Z

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You could do something like:

driver.execute_script("""
  document.querySelector('button').innerText = 'Hi There'
""")

answered Jan 14, 2020 at 0:05

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Atomization Over a year ago

Doesn't seem to be working. It doesn't even give an error.

browser = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/-------/Downloads/chromedriver')  browser.get("https://google.ca/")  browser.execute_script("""   document.querySelector('button').innerText = 'Hi There' """)

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