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
Consider the HTML document at the URL https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-55.html, with the following HTML content.
HTML Webpage
<html>
<body>
<h2>Hello World</h2>
<p>This is a paragraph.</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 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-55.html')
# Find elements by XPath expression
my_elements = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div')
for element in my_elements:
print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
# Close the driver
driver.quit()Output
<div name="xyz">Div 1</div>
<div name="abc">Div 2</div>Summary
In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to find all the HTML elements by given XPath, in webpage, using Selenium.