How to extract the Email-Address using Selenium and Python

Question

I'm trying to extract the 'email' using selenium. I want to get the value="raipiwro@squizzy.net" directly from the box. How can i do this ?

Website link: https://www.squizzy.de/

Answer 1

Helloww, you're trying to get the attribute value of an element, so we should do that:

driver.find_element("tag name", 'input').get_attribute('value')

First we get the element, then, get it's value attribute which is the email

Answer 2

To extract the email address using Selenium 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, "input[name='mail']"))).get_attribute("value"))
  

• Using XPATH:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='mail']"))).get_attribute("value"))
  

• 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