Selenium code to wait until CSS class is available and extract text in Python

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I have looked at some questions on here that are somewhat related but none of them are concerned with finding a class and then extracting text that is part of that class.

My goal is to automate the process of entry into a website that finds emails, given name and domain names. So far I have the code to automate the entry of the name and domain, and then click on "search", but my issue is waiting for a result to load. I basically want my code wot wait until the CSS class "one" is present and then extract the text related to this class, e.g. for the following snippet:

<h3 class="one">Success</h3>

Extract the text "Success".

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-21 03:04:18Z

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You need to explicitly wait for the element to become visible:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
h3 = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h3.one")))
print h3.text

edited Mar 21, 2015 at 3:04

answered Mar 21, 2015 at 2:19

alecxe

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ohbrobig Over a year ago

I am getting this error: File "/Users/sinaastani/AskNorbert/finder.py", line 18, in <module> h3 = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h3.one"))) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium-2.45.0-py3.4.egg/selenium/webdriver/support/wait.py", line 75, in until raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

alecxe Over a year ago

@ohbrobig then, it appears that this element is not getting visible.

alecxe Over a year ago

@ohbrobig any iframes on the page? Is the element really represented as <h3 class="one">Success</h3>? Thanks.

ohbrobig Over a year ago

there are iframes on the page, but the element is really represented that way

alecxe Over a year ago

@ohbrobig iframes are your current problem. You need to switch to an iframe and then wait for an element: driver.switch_to.frame('frame_id_or_name').

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