Find Elements by Link Text
To find the link elements (hyperlinks) by the value (link text) inside the link, using Selenium in Python, call find_elements()
method, pass By.LINK_TEXT
as the first argument, and the link text as the second argument.
find_elements(By.LINK_TEXT, "link_text_value")
find_elements()
method returns all the HTML Elements, that match the given link text, as a list.
If there are no elements by given link text, find_elements()
function returns an empty list.
Example
Consider the HTML document at the URL https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-56.html, with the following HTML content.
HTML Webpage
<html>
<body>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<div name="xyz">
<p>Article 1</p>
<a href="/tmp/article-1/">Read More</a>
</div>
<div name="xyz">
<p>Article 2</p>
<a href="/tmp/article-2/">Read More</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In the following Python program, we will find all the HTML elements that have link text 'Read More'
, and print those elements to the console.
Python Program (Selenium)
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
# Navigate to the url
driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-56.html')
# Find elements by Link Text
my_elements = driver.find_elements(By.LINK_TEXT, 'Read More')
for element in my_elements:
print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
# Close the driver
driver.quit()
Output
<a href="/tmp/article-1/">Read More</a>
<a href="/tmp/article-2/">Read More</a>
Summary
In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to find all the elements that have given link text, in the webpage, using Selenium.