What are find_element and find_elements in Selenium Python?
Overview
Selenium is an open-source web-based automation tool. In this answer, we'll learn how to use the find_element and find_elements commands in Selenium web driver using Python.
Syntax
driver.find_element()driver.find_elements()
Parameters
Both commands take the type of attribute (class name, ID, XPath, and so on) as the first parameter and the value of that in the second parameter.
Return value
find_element()returns the first element that matches and returnsNoSuchElementExceptionif no match is found.find_elements()returns a list of elements that match and returns an empty list if no match is found.
Example
from selenium import webdriverfrom selenium.webdriver.common.by import Byimport time#specify where your chrome driver present in your pcPATH=r"C:\Users\educative\Documents\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe"#get instance of web driverdriver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)#provide website url heredriver.get("https://www.educative.io/answers")#sleep for 2 secondstime.sleep(2)#usage of find elementprint(driver.find_element(By.xpath('//*[@class="list-masonry-grid_column"]/a/div/h2')).text)#usage of find_elementsfor ele in driver.find_elements(By.xpath('//*[@class="list-masonry-grid_column"]/a/div/h2')):print(ele.text)
Explanation
- Line 18: We get the first element that has a class name
titleusing thefind_element()method. - Lines 21–22: We get all the elements that have a class name
titleusing thefind_elements()method. We loop through the returned list of elements and print its text.
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