How to Find Partial Text in Multiple Elements with Selenium?
I'm Trying to Find Partial Text Inside Web Page's Elements, Which Contains Specific String. While I Know How to Find the Whole Text, I Don't Know How to Find...
I'm trying to find partial text inside web page's <p> elements, which contains specific string. While I know how to find the whole text, I don't know how to find only a partial text, if it matches.
For example, if a text between p tags contains "Lorem ipsum" and my string is "ipsum", the script should find it in the text.
Here's my code so far:
#elem = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('p').text
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//p[contains(text(), ' "+string" ')]").get_attribute('text')
if title in elem:
print(title)
What am I doing wrong?
2 Answers
You missed one concatenation +
try now.
string="ipsum"
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//p[contains(text(), '" + string + "')]").text
The other way is to do it using python format function.
string="ipsum"
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, f"//p[contains(text(), '{string}')]").text
or
string="ipsum"
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, f"//p[contains(., '{string}')]").text
or
string="ipsum"
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//p[contains(., '{}')]".format(string)).text
Given the sample HTML
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>
<p>consectetur adipiscing elit</p>
<p>sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua</p>
<p>Ut enim ad minim veniam</p>
<p>quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat</p>
<p>Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur</p>
<p>Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident</p>
<p>sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum</p>
You could use the code
search_string = "Lorem sint"
for s in search_string.split(" "):
print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, f"//p[contains(text(), '{s}')]").text)
and it prints
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident
It just takes the search string, splits it by a space, and then searches for each word individually. You'll have to decide if this works for you or you can adapt it to better suit what you are looking for.
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