I have 3 questions:
1) How can I XPath the text in the Google Results, the bold marked. If there's no , there should be nothing shown.
2) =XPathOnUrl("https://www.google.de/search?q=KEYWORD&num=10");"//span[#class='st']") This gives me the Google Description, but how can i get the description without the <span class="f"> date?
3) I get the description with � as an "ä, ö, ü". How can these letters be displayed?
HTML DOM CODE:-
<span class="st">
<span class="f">18.11.2009 - </span>
This Thursday 19th November
<em>Moonshine</em>
turns 4 years old. I'm proud to say that's 4 years of Malaysian acts pretty much every month. We've ...
</span>
The code I used for this issue
driver.get("https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=moonshine+site:blogspot.com&nu%E2%80%8C%E2%80%8Bm=10");
List<WebElement> ele = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//span[#class='f']/following-sibling::text()"));
ele.toString();
for(int i=0;i<ele.size();i++)
{
System.out.println(ele.get(i).getText());
}
This code throws an InvalidSelectorException
The result of the xpath expression "//span[#class='f']/following-sibling::text()" is: [object Text]. It should be an element.
In future you try this following xpath to capture only the text i.e. description
//span[#class='f']/following-sibling::text()
Actually you can't capture that text because this is selenium Open Issue
[selenium-developer-activity] Issue 5459 in selenium: InvalidSelectorError: The result of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
you can find it in below link (issue details)
http://grokbase.com/t/gg/selenium-developer-activity/13475y4cgj/issue-5459-in-selenium-invalidselectorerror-the-result-of-the-xpath-expression-is-object-text
Use below Xpath for same. It will return all the dates present on the page:-
//span[#class='f']/text()
if you just want text the use below xpath
//span[#class='st' and not(#class='f')]/text()
Hope it will help you :)
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<div class='postbodytop">
<a class="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" href="xxxxxxxxxxxxxx">tonyd</a>
"posted this 4 minutes ago "
<span class="hidden-xs"> </span>
</div>
Hello, I want to extract the "posted this 4 minutes ago" or just "4 minutes" using xpath. Can anybody help me? Thank you
The div whose class equals postbodytop contains three child nodes: a span, a text node, and another span. Your path should start at the div and then select the child text node, for which the appropriate test is text().
div/text()
Of course this is just a fragment of a bigger page, and your XPath may need to have something at the start e.g. /html/body/ etc. and if there are other div elements at the same level as the <div class=postbodytop>, then you should be more specific about the div, e.g. div[#class="postbodytop"] instead of just div in that XPath expression.
I recently started a new job that uses cucumber/Gherkin along with selenium. I was trying to create a XPath for a specific element. The xml looks slightly like this...
<p>
<div class="slds-text-title_bold slds-m-bottom_x-small ncc-input-label">
Amp
</div>
<div class="slds-text-title_bold slds-m-bottom_x-small ncc-input-label required-field-label">
Voltage
</div>
</p>
I am looking to only get the div with the required field label in the class and text of "Voltage" So far this kinda works...
//div[contains(text(), "Voltage")] | //*[contains(class, "required-field-label")]
however I'm getting way too many false positives. Any time I change the pipe into "and" I get nothing. What am I doing wrong?
HCSloan
Try the following expression on your actual code, and see if it works:
//div[contains(#class, "required-field-label")][contains(text(), "Voltage")]
You can match the element using "and" like this:
//div[contains(#class, 'required-field-label') and contains(text(), 'Voltage')]
How to get the whole title:
Iphone case :) #phonecases#xmas#iphone#case
When the title does not include hashtags I can get all the title with this xpath:
((//*[#class='pinWrapper'])[2]//span)[1]/text()
This line:
((//*[#class='pinWrapper'])[2]//span)[1]//text()[normalize-space()]
returns only the first one: Iphone case :).
And this:
((//*[#class='pinWrapper'])[2]//span)[1][string()]
returns whole xml:
<span>Iphone case :) <span class="pinHashtag">#phonecases</span> <span class="pinHashtag">#xmas</span> <span class="pinHashtag">#iphone</span> <span class="pinHashtag">#case</span></span>
If ((//*[#class='pinWrapper'])[2]//span)[1]/text() returns you first text node only, try
string(((//*[#class='pinWrapper'])[2]//span)[1])
to get complete string
suppose I have this structure:
<div class="a" attribute="foo">
<div class="b">
<span>Text Example</span>
</div>
</div>
In xpath, I would like to retrieve the value of the attribute "attribute" given I have the text inside: Text Example
If I use this xpath:
.//*[#class='a']//*[text()='Text Example']
It returns the element span, but I need the div.a, because I need to get the value of the attribute through Selenium WebDriver
Hey there are lot of ways by which you can figure it out.
So lets say Text Example is given, you can identify it using this text:-
//span[text()='Text Example']/../.. --> If you know its 2 level up
OR
//span[text()='Text Example']/ancestor::div[#class='a'] --> If you don't know how many level up this `div` is
Above 2 xpaths can be used if you only want to identify the element using Text Example, if you don't want to iterate through this text. There are simple ways to identify it directly:-
//div[#class='a']
From your question itself you have mentioned the answer for it
but I need the div.a,
try this
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.a")).getAttribute("attribute");
use cssSelector for best result.
or else try the following xpath
//div[contains(#class, 'a')]
If you want attribute of div.a with it's descendant span which contains text something, try as below :-
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#class = 'a' and descendant::span[text() = 'Text Example']]")).getAttribute("attribute");
Hope it helps..:)
My code is like this,
<div>
<strong> Text1: </strong>
1234
<br>
<strong> Text2: </strong>
5678
<br>
</div>
where numbers, 1234 and 5678 are generated dynamically. When I take XPath of Text2 : 5678, it gives me like /html/body/div[7]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/br[2]. This does not work for me. I need to take XPath of only "Text2 : 5678". any help will be appreciated. (I am using selenium webdriver and C# to code my test script)
I second #Anil's comment above. The text "Text2:" is retrievable as it is within "strong" element. But, "5678" comes under div and is not the innerHTML for either "strong" or "br".
Hence, to retrieve the text "Text 2: 5678", you'll have to retrieve the innerHTML/text of "div" and modify it accordingly to get the required text.
Below is a Java code snippet to retrieve the text:-
WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div"));
System.out.print(ele.getText().split("\n")[1]; //Splitting using newline as the split string.
I hope you can formulate the above in C#.