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I would like to extract the text between ::before and ::after into a string. How can I use a for loop to extract all the text in selenium Python?

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The text i is in between the ::before and ::after pseudoelements. So to extract the text you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

  • Using css_selector:

    print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.kbkey.button.red").text)

  • Using xpath:

    print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@class='kbkey button red']").text)

Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

  • Using CSS-SELECTOR:

    print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.kbkey.button.red"))).text)

  • Using XPATH:

    print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='kbkey button red']"))).text)

  • 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:

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::before and ::after are just a pseudo elements.
Here you can extract the text from the div element itself.
In case there are several divs with class kbkey button red you can do something like this:

buttons = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div.kbkey.button.red")
for button in buttons:
    print(button.text)
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  • this totally worked for me. I saw the print statements in my use case showing the text in the 2nd of of 3 loops. Thanks! – rom Oct 05 '22 at 07:05
  • To add some context... It appears when ::before and ::after are present you should use .find_elements. The reason is this situation creates a 3 item array and the middle item is your text! So, to grab that, set up a variable prior to this point that gets the value if text is found. Also, I had to call .text in the for loop on the for-loop variable representing the selenium object. – rom Oct 05 '22 at 07:25
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    @rom You are more than welcome! And thanks for the detailed explanations! – Prophet Oct 05 '22 at 17:06