find_elements_by_xpath() not producing the desired output python selenium scraping










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I'm trying to find a tr by its class of .tableOne. Here is my code:



browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path, options=options)
cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@class="tableone"]')


But the output of the cells variable is , an empty array.



Here is the html of the page:



<tbody class="tableUpper">
<tr class="tableone">
<td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td>
<td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a></td>
<td class="hide-s">
<span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
</tbody>









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  • Hello @Praveen, could you include the html in your post as text instead of using a image? Also one thought, it might be because you need to wait for the page to load before getting elements off it but I'm not really familiar with selenium so I can't really say that's defiantly the problem.

    – Mike
    Nov 12 '18 at 10:54












  • <tbody class="tableUpper"> <tr class="tableone"> <td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td> <td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a> </td> <td class="hide-s"><span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> </tbody>

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:26











  • There is problem with editing the question, I am working in it, since I am new to this site, I have some troubles

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:27











  • Ah, that's ok I've just edited your question so If you accept my edit I've put the code inline

    – Mike
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:38











  • Thankyou for editing the code, I have approved it. Hope to see the answer soon

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:41















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I'm trying to find a tr by its class of .tableOne. Here is my code:



browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path, options=options)
cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@class="tableone"]')


But the output of the cells variable is , an empty array.



Here is the html of the page:



<tbody class="tableUpper">
<tr class="tableone">
<td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td>
<td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a></td>
<td class="hide-s">
<span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
</tbody>









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  • Hello @Praveen, could you include the html in your post as text instead of using a image? Also one thought, it might be because you need to wait for the page to load before getting elements off it but I'm not really familiar with selenium so I can't really say that's defiantly the problem.

    – Mike
    Nov 12 '18 at 10:54












  • <tbody class="tableUpper"> <tr class="tableone"> <td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td> <td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a> </td> <td class="hide-s"><span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> </tbody>

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:26











  • There is problem with editing the question, I am working in it, since I am new to this site, I have some troubles

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:27











  • Ah, that's ok I've just edited your question so If you accept my edit I've put the code inline

    – Mike
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:38











  • Thankyou for editing the code, I have approved it. Hope to see the answer soon

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:41













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I'm trying to find a tr by its class of .tableOne. Here is my code:



browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path, options=options)
cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@class="tableone"]')


But the output of the cells variable is , an empty array.



Here is the html of the page:



<tbody class="tableUpper">
<tr class="tableone">
<td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td>
<td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a></td>
<td class="hide-s">
<span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
</tbody>









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I'm trying to find a tr by its class of .tableOne. Here is my code:



browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path, options=options)
cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@class="tableone"]')


But the output of the cells variable is , an empty array.



Here is the html of the page:



<tbody class="tableUpper">
<tr class="tableone">
<td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td>
<td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a></td>
<td class="hide-s">
<span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
<tr class="tableone">..</tr>
</tbody>






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  • Hello @Praveen, could you include the html in your post as text instead of using a image? Also one thought, it might be because you need to wait for the page to load before getting elements off it but I'm not really familiar with selenium so I can't really say that's defiantly the problem.

    – Mike
    Nov 12 '18 at 10:54












  • <tbody class="tableUpper"> <tr class="tableone"> <td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td> <td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a> </td> <td class="hide-s"><span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> </tbody>

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:26











  • There is problem with editing the question, I am working in it, since I am new to this site, I have some troubles

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:27











  • Ah, that's ok I've just edited your question so If you accept my edit I've put the code inline

    – Mike
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:38











  • Thankyou for editing the code, I have approved it. Hope to see the answer soon

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:41

















  • Hello @Praveen, could you include the html in your post as text instead of using a image? Also one thought, it might be because you need to wait for the page to load before getting elements off it but I'm not really familiar with selenium so I can't really say that's defiantly the problem.

    – Mike
    Nov 12 '18 at 10:54












  • <tbody class="tableUpper"> <tr class="tableone"> <td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td> <td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a> </td> <td class="hide-s"><span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> </tbody>

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:26











  • There is problem with editing the question, I am working in it, since I am new to this site, I have some troubles

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:27











  • Ah, that's ok I've just edited your question so If you accept my edit I've put the code inline

    – Mike
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:38











  • Thankyou for editing the code, I have approved it. Hope to see the answer soon

    – Praveen
    Nov 12 '18 at 11:41
















Hello @Praveen, could you include the html in your post as text instead of using a image? Also one thought, it might be because you need to wait for the page to load before getting elements off it but I'm not really familiar with selenium so I can't really say that's defiantly the problem.

– Mike
Nov 12 '18 at 10:54






Hello @Praveen, could you include the html in your post as text instead of using a image? Also one thought, it might be because you need to wait for the page to load before getting elements off it but I'm not really familiar with selenium so I can't really say that's defiantly the problem.

– Mike
Nov 12 '18 at 10:54














<tbody class="tableUpper"> <tr class="tableone"> <td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td> <td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a> </td> <td class="hide-s"><span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> </tbody>

– Praveen
Nov 12 '18 at 11:26





<tbody class="tableUpper"> <tr class="tableone"> <td><a class="studentName" href="//www.abc.com"> student one</a></td> <td><a href="//www.abc.com/overview"> <span class="id_one"></span> <span class="long">Place</span> <span class="short">Place</span></a> </td> <td class="hide-s"><span class="state"></span> <span class="studentState">student_state</span> </td> </tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> <tr class="tableone">..</tr> </tbody>

– Praveen
Nov 12 '18 at 11:26













There is problem with editing the question, I am working in it, since I am new to this site, I have some troubles

– Praveen
Nov 12 '18 at 11:27





There is problem with editing the question, I am working in it, since I am new to this site, I have some troubles

– Praveen
Nov 12 '18 at 11:27













Ah, that's ok I've just edited your question so If you accept my edit I've put the code inline

– Mike
Nov 12 '18 at 11:38





Ah, that's ok I've just edited your question so If you accept my edit I've put the code inline

– Mike
Nov 12 '18 at 11:38













Thankyou for editing the code, I have approved it. Hope to see the answer soon

– Praveen
Nov 12 '18 at 11:41





Thankyou for editing the code, I have approved it. Hope to see the answer soon

– Praveen
Nov 12 '18 at 11:41












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Please try this:



import re

cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(local-name(), 'tr') and contains(@class, 'tableone')]")

for (e in cells):
insides = e.find_elements_by_xpath("./td")
for (i in insides):
result = re.search('">(.*)</', i.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
print result.group(1)


What this does is gets all the tr elements that have class tableone, then iterates through each element and lists all the tds. Then iterates through the outerHTML of each td and strips each string to get the text value.
It's quite unrefined and will return empty strings, I think. You might need to put some more work into the final product.






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    Please try this:



    import re

    cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(local-name(), 'tr') and contains(@class, 'tableone')]")

    for (e in cells):
    insides = e.find_elements_by_xpath("./td")
    for (i in insides):
    result = re.search('">(.*)</', i.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
    print result.group(1)


    What this does is gets all the tr elements that have class tableone, then iterates through each element and lists all the tds. Then iterates through the outerHTML of each td and strips each string to get the text value.
    It's quite unrefined and will return empty strings, I think. You might need to put some more work into the final product.






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      Please try this:



      import re

      cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(local-name(), 'tr') and contains(@class, 'tableone')]")

      for (e in cells):
      insides = e.find_elements_by_xpath("./td")
      for (i in insides):
      result = re.search('">(.*)</', i.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
      print result.group(1)


      What this does is gets all the tr elements that have class tableone, then iterates through each element and lists all the tds. Then iterates through the outerHTML of each td and strips each string to get the text value.
      It's quite unrefined and will return empty strings, I think. You might need to put some more work into the final product.






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        Please try this:



        import re

        cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(local-name(), 'tr') and contains(@class, 'tableone')]")

        for (e in cells):
        insides = e.find_elements_by_xpath("./td")
        for (i in insides):
        result = re.search('">(.*)</', i.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
        print result.group(1)


        What this does is gets all the tr elements that have class tableone, then iterates through each element and lists all the tds. Then iterates through the outerHTML of each td and strips each string to get the text value.
        It's quite unrefined and will return empty strings, I think. You might need to put some more work into the final product.






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        Please try this:



        import re

        cells = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(local-name(), 'tr') and contains(@class, 'tableone')]")

        for (e in cells):
        insides = e.find_elements_by_xpath("./td")
        for (i in insides):
        result = re.search('">(.*)</', i.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
        print result.group(1)


        What this does is gets all the tr elements that have class tableone, then iterates through each element and lists all the tds. Then iterates through the outerHTML of each td and strips each string to get the text value.
        It's quite unrefined and will return empty strings, I think. You might need to put some more work into the final product.







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