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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 following web document.
index.html
<html>
<body>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<div name="xyz">
<p>>Article 1</p>
<a href="/article-1/">Read More</a>
</div>
<div name="xyz">
<p>>Article 2</p>
<a href="/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.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
service = Service(executable_path="/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")
#initialize web driver
with webdriver.Chrome(service=service) as driver:
#navigate to the url
driver.get('http://127.0.0.1:5500/localwebsite/index.html')
#find elements by link text
elements = driver.find_elements(By.LINK_TEXT, 'Read More')
for element in elements:
print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
Run Output
<a href="/article-1/">Read More</a>
<a href="/article-2/">Read More</a>
Summary
In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to find all the elements that have given link text, in the webpage, using Selenium.