How to get text with Selenium WebDriver in Python

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I m trying to get text using Selenium WebDriver and here is my code  Please note that I don t want to use XPath  because in my case the ID gets changed on every relaunch of the web page  My code  text   driver find element by class name  quot current-stage quot   getText  quot my text quot    HTML   lt span class  quot current-text quot  id  quot yui 3 7 0 4 1389185744113 384 quot  gt my text lt  span gt   How can I fix this

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Python  element text   Java   element getText     C    element Text   Ruby  element text

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To print the text my text you can use either of the following Locator Strategies   Using class name and get attribute  quot textContent quot    print driver find element By CLASS NAME   quot current-stage quot   get attribute  quot textContent quot      Using css selector and get attribute  quot innerHTML quot    print driver find element By CSS SELECTOR   quot span current-stage quot   get attribute  quot innerHTML quot      Using xpath and text attribute  print driver find element By XPATH   quot   span  class  current-stage   quot   text      Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility of element located   and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies   Using CLASS NAME and get attribute  quot textContent quot    print WebDriverWait driver  20  until EC visibility of element located  By CLASS NAME   quot current-stage quot     get attribute  quot textContent quot      Using CSS SELECTOR and text attribute  print WebDriverWait driver  20  until EC visibility of element located  By CSS SELECTOR   quot span current-stage quot     text    Using XPATH and get attribute  quot innerHTML quot    print WebDriverWait driver  20  until EC visibility of element located  By XPATH   quot   span  class  current-stage   quot     get attribute  quot innerHTML quot      Note   You have to add the following imports   from selenium webdriver support ui import WebDriverWait from selenium webdriver common by import By from selenium webdriver support import expected conditions as EC     You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python   References Link to useful documentation   get attribute   method Gets the given attribute or property of the element  text attribute returns The text of the element  Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium

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You can use   element   driver find element by class name  class name   text   This will return the text within the element and will allow you to verify it after that

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You want just  text   You can then verify it after you ve got it  don t attempt to pass in what you expect it should have

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I ve found this absolutely invaluable when unable to grab something in a custom class or changing id s  driver find element by xpath  quot     contains text     Show Next Date Available    quot   click   driver find element by xpath  quot     contains text     Show Next Date Available    quot   text driver find element by xpath  quot     contains text     Available    quot   text driver find element by xpath  quot     contains text     Avail    quot   text

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This is the correct answer  It worked   from selenium import webdriver from selenium webdriver support ui import WebDriverWait  driver   webdriver Chrome  quot E   Python  selenium  webdriver  chromedriver exe quot   driver get  quot https   www tatacliq com global-desi-navy-embroidered-kurta p-mp000000000876745 quot   driver set page load timeout 45  driver maximize window   driver implicitly wait 2  driver get screenshot as file  quot E   Python  Tatacliq png quot   print   quot Executed Successfully quot   driver find element by xpath  quot   div  class  pdp-promo-title pdp-title   quot   click   SpecialPrice   driver find element by xpath  quot   div  class  pdp-promo-title pdp-title   quot   text print SpecialPrice

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The answer is  driver find element by class name  quot ctsymbol quot   text

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