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Find Elements by XPath
To find the HTML Elements by an XPath (language used for locating nodes in HTML) using Selenium in Python, call find_elements()
method and pass By.XPATH
as the first argument, and the XPath value as the second argument.
find_elements(By.XPATH, "xpath_value")
find_elements()
method returns all the HTML Elements, that satisfy the given XPath value, as a list.
If there are no elements in the document for the given XPath value, then find_elements()
method returns an empty list.
Example
Let us consider the below web document.
index.html
<html>
<body>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<div name="xyz">Div 1</div>
<div name="abc">Div 2</div>
</body>
</html>
In the following Python program, we will find all the div
elements in the document using find_elements()
method using the XPath value '/html/body/div'
.
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 xpath
elements = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div')
for element in elements:
print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
Output
<div name="xyz">Div 1</div>
<div name="abc">Div 2</div>
Summary
In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to find all the HTML elements by given XPath, in webpage, using Selenium.