How to find Elements by XPath using Selenium?

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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.