Selenium parsing selection from dropdown menu

Question

I'm trying to automate accessing a Wikipedia page (without api) and parse the text, I can input the research value but struggle to select the first result from the input dropdown results (please open wikipedia if you don't know what I'm talking about). I tried extracting the XPATH from the webpage but still failed to make it work.
What I've tried

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page")
elem = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "search")
elem.send_keys('Python')
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[5]/div/a[2]/div')
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

Thanks

StevenTheOverflow · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-02 19:14:54Z

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I think a simpler way would be to add the search term into the link itself by combining strings (like f-strings). For example, if you want to search for "Python", you could do:

search_term = "Python"
url = f"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{search_term}"
driver.get(url)

Hope this solves the issue

answered Aug 2, 2022 at 19:14

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