Can't find span text in selenium python

Question

enter code hereI am doing web scraping to a movie page but it does not find the span although in the xpath it is fine and it recognizes it, it does not find the text, when I print it, it prints empty.

This is the code enter image description here

Evidence finding the item enter image description here

Url

https://www.cinecolombia.com/cali/peliculas/el-olvido-que-seremos xpath

//section@class="collapsible show-times-collapse"//div@class="show-times-group"//div[@class="show-times-group__attrs"]/span1

the element at the end is with brackets, I don't recognize it stack span

xpath enter image description here

And also try what was recommended to me in the answers and it doesn't work either enter image description here

Prophet · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-05 14:56:23Z

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Try this XPath:

(//div[@class='show-times-group__attrs']/span)[1]

UPD
That element is initially hidden inside collapsible element.
So, to see it with Selenium you first have to open it.
The code to get the text will be:

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

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)

wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.show-times-collapse__header"))).click()

your_text = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "(//div[@class='show-times-group__attrs']/span)[1]"))).text

edited Aug 5, 2021 at 14:56

answered Aug 5, 2021 at 14:35

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Oxonomy Over a year ago

still does not take the text of the span

Prophet Over a year ago

what command do you use? Maybe you are missing a delay before it?

Oxonomy Over a year ago

How am I running it in jupyter in cell 3 opens the browser and leaves it there open so that I can still do tests, with the browser open.

Oxonomy Over a year ago

Can you show me how you do it from the code to get the text from the span?

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