Python and how to get text from Selenium element WebElement object?

Question

I am trying to get the tag text content in html page by using Selenium methods, but it seems method someElement.getText() is not available in Python. Any help, please?

Here's traceback:

AttributeError: 'WebElement' object has no attribute 'getText'

very similar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12325454/how-to-get-text-of-an-element-in-selenium-webdriver-via-the-python-api-without — aberna, Jan 19 '15 at 10:45
I was pointing at the .text method cited inside the question — aberna, Jan 19 '15 at 10:58

score 83 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 19 '20 at 19:20

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Once you locate the element you can use the text property.

Example:

for element in self.driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('img'):
       print element.text
       print element.tag_name
       print element.parent
       print element.location
       print element.size

edited Dec 19 '20 at 19:20

Vladimir Mikulic

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answered Jan 19 '15 at 10:55

aberna

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Yes! Thank you. I found `element.get_attribute('text')` works too and it with more possibilities. – Alex Jan 19 '15 at 11:01
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You need to be careful if the text is hidden, e.g. via CSS, on the page. In that case you need to do element.get_attribute("innerText"). See: http://yizeng.me/2014/04/08/get-text-from-hidden-elements-using-selenium-webdriver/ – Dave Potts Oct 11 '17 at 15:57
This reply even tough expanding on a different subject finally clarified the different objects returned by find_element and find_elements (with the plural s) : – Robert Alexander Jan 26 '22 at 16:27

Somesh Samadder · Answer 2 · 2019-11-22T13:37:29.053

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Selenium Get Text From Element (just add ".text")

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for all elements of the list

tree = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(<the_XPATH>)
for i in tree:
   print(i.text)

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[ ] fetchby number

 tree = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(<the_XPATH>)
 print(tree[0].text)

edited Nov 22 '19 at 13:37

answered Nov 22 '19 at 13:31

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '20 at 18:07

I was in task to extract text between the target tags but the x.text method didn't work for me. This is because some text are saved as invisible elements .For invisible elements use:

list1 = [x.get_attribute("innertext") for x in driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath)]
print(list1)

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 29 '20 at 14:04

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Actually with python 3 this worked for me:

obj= browser.find_element_by_xpath("the_XPATH")
print(obj.text)

Is not necesary iterate the element because launch a Traceback:

TypeError: 'WebElement' object is not iterable

answered Aug 29 '20 at 14:04

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