Problem in loop through span elements using python Selenium

Question

Objective: To loop over Span items (inform of buttons) on a Web Page and get corresponding href values. This page can have multiple buttons kind of elements and its dynamic and will have value from 1 to n.

Input html code:

and this class='mb-text' values varies from 1 to n.

So Now I need to find if this span class exist and if exist, then loop through it and get all href related to those

The below statements were not able to locate intended elements returned empty list

elements1 = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("(//span[contains(@class,'mb-text')])")
elements1 = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('maxbutton-1 maxbutton maxbutton-download-link')

Please suggest

can you share the url?

balderman
– balderman

2021-09-12 17:05:44 +00:00
Commented Sep 12, 2021 at 17:05 — balderman
– balderman, Commented Sep 12, 2021 at 17:05

Prophet · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-12 16:45:46Z

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I guess you are missing a wait before accessing these elements.
Please try this:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[contains(@class,'mb-text')]")))
time.sleep(1)
elements1 = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//span[contains(@class,'mb-text')]")

You will need these imports:

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

Also possibly there is an iframe there.
If so you will have to switch into that iframe.

answered Sep 12, 2021 at 16:45

Prophet

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2 Comments

asp Over a year ago

No luck buddy. I guess its not problem I see with time wait. But I am doing some mistake to select by xpath or css from input of html which I have given in original post. Not sure what I am missing, since its returning empty list. I need some suggestion how to correctly access those elements based on html given in original post

Prophet Over a year ago

can you share a link to that page?

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