How to extract element within a HTML Tag using Xpath in python?

Question

I have an HTML tag that looks like this

<tr class="js-row  DC is-odd" data-nationality="Indian" data-team-id="3">
        <td class="top-players__freeze js-pos top-players__pos DC">2</td>
        <td class="top-players__freeze top-players__player">
            <div class="top-players__image">
                <img class="js-headshot" src="//static.iplt20.com/players/210/Photo-Missing.png"

I'm trying to extract the data-nationality value using XPath, however I'm not quite sure how to do this.

I have tried something like this, after selecting the tr element:

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//tr[contains(@class,'js-row  DC is-odd')]/@data-nationality")

However this didn't work. Can someone help me out with this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 23 '20 at 23:21

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Try using the get_attribute() element method.

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//tr[contains(@class,'js-row  DC is-odd')]").get_attribute("data-nationality")

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/get_attribute-element-method-selenium-python/

edited Nov 23 '20 at 23:21

JaSON

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answered Nov 23 '20 at 21:04

David Weckerly

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '20 at 21:21

Seems you were close enough. Presuming the value DC within class and data-team-id="3" being two unique attribute values within the element, to print the value of the data-nationality attribute i.e. Indian 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, "tr.js-row.DC.is-odd[data-team-id='3']"))).get_attribute("data-nationality"))

Using XPATH:

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//tr[@class='js-row  DC is-odd' and @data-team-id='3']"))).get_attribute("data-nationality"))

Console Output:
```
Indian
```

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

How to extract element within a HTML Tag using Xpath in python?

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