Python Selenium get value of tooltip text with javascript website

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I am new to Selenium. Read through many historical posts and try to retrieve tooltip text but fail...

X path (for "col_issued_shares" should be correct as it is directly copy like below screen:

The result is SyntaxError: invalid syntax. My expected output is Issued Shares 20,428,671,958 ( as at 27 May 2022) . But when I view source , it shows toolkit text.

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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


s=Service(r'C:\Users\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
url='https://www.hkex.com.hk/Market-Data/Securities-Prices/Equities/Equities-Quote?sym=5&sc_lang=en'
driver.get(url)

element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id="lhkexw-quoteequities"]/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/span[2]/span")

Can someone help? Thanks a lot

Mayank Shukla · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-31 10:43:07Z

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Try xpath //*[@id='lhkexw-quoteequities']/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/span[2]/span

Actually you are enclosing xpath with double quotes ("). So in xpath you should use single-quote (') for @id=''.

edited May 31, 2022 at 10:43

answered May 31, 2022 at 10:36

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Jodie Over a year ago

changed and run below is result. <selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="b2beaba3610734bf8684c8c0f92319d8", element="44c5736b-847d-400c-bf79-97086acd8ccb")>

Jodie Over a year ago

How can I get this result?? Issued Shares 20,428,671,958 ( as at 27 May 2022)

Mayank Shukla Over a year ago

@Jodie I checked the screenshot that you have attached. As per that, your xpath should be //span[contains(@class, 'col_issued_shares')] To print the text print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[contains(@class, 'col_issued_shares')]").text)

Jodie Over a year ago

You are right. Now I get result :20,428,671,958 (as at 27 May 2022), BIG THANKS!!. Next step , I will explore ways to search a list of securities and print out their issued shares into csv format. Will keep you posted.

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