How to count how many times a text appears in webpage using Selenium?

Question

I am trying to count how many times an string "Airport" appears on an website. I tried to use Request Module , BS4 etc. and tried to scrap data from there, but the REST response returns a very concise xml which actually does not contain the text in it. Find_Element_By_Link_Text method also does not work here as the string "Airport" is part of the texts shown on the page. Is there any method that I can use to count the number of occurrences of the text "Airport" on the page?

Answer 1

You can use browser.page_source, convert it to a string and use regular expression findall.

Python Selenium accessing HTML source

Python regex findall

Answer 2

why don't you use some javascript?

get all the html code/text

var wholeText = document.documentElement.innerHTML;

then split by "Airport"

var repeat = wholeText.split("Airport");

finally count the elements in your repeat array

total = repeat.length -1 

this should give you all the airports in the whole code (including backend)

another easy approach is just use your Ctrl + F and find the occurrences manually