python selenium how to copy text?

Question

How to copy text with selenium xpath? When I writing

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rankingItem-value js-countable']").text

I get next error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 15, in <module>
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'text'

full code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://www.similarweb.com/')
driver.find_element_by_id("js-swSearch-input").send_keys("www.pornhub.com")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button.swSearch-submit").click()
#self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)
time.sleep(10)


content = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rankingItem-value js-countable']").text
print(content)

I need to copy site's global rank to a table, "22" one. How?

Answer 1

To select required element you need to use find_element_by_xpath(xpath) method (that will return first web-element matched by xpath) or find_elements_by_xpath(xpath)[0] (that will return first web-element from list of elements matched by xpath). Also your XPath is incorrect as there is no div with class="rankingItem-value js-countable"- you need span instead. So try following:

content = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[@class="rankingItem-value js-countable"]').text

or

content = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@class="rankingItem-value js-countable"]')[0].text

If you need to get "Country rank" or "Category rank", use below:

content_of_country_rank = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@class="rankingItem-value js-countable"]')[1].text
content_of_category_rank = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@class="rankingItem-value js-countable"]')[2].text

Answer 2

Try

content = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rankingItem-value js-countable']")

for c in content:
   print c.text

It's a good practice to use find_elements_by_xpath because if you find nothing in the path, content[0] will be empty, but if you use find_element_by_xpath and you find nothing in the path, you will get an error

Answer 3

You are getting an error because you are trying to call the function on the list object.

You are using find_elements which returns a list of web elements and not find_element

I am not sure what you are trying to achieve but if you trying to print the content of all the elements then the following code should work.

elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rankingItem-value js-countable']")
content = "".join([element.text for element in elements])
print(content)