Extracting placeholder from HTML tag using python selenium [duplicate]

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I am using the following python code to launch the Firefox webpage.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver= webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.quora.com")

After launching if somehow I know the xpath of this tag.

<input  
class="text header_login_text_box ignore_interaction" 
type="text" 
name="email" tabindex="1"
data-group="js-editable"
placeholder="Email"
w2cid="wZgD2YHa18" 
id="__w2_wZgD2YHa18_email">

I can extract attribute using selenium webdriver on python using the following command if I now the name of the attribute.

dict['attribute'] = driver.find_element_by_xpath(x_path).get_attribute(attribute)

so my output will be

dict = { 'attribute':value}

Please help me to figure out the way to extract all the attributes with its value even I don't known what are all the attributes it has. My expected output would be

dict = { "class" : "text header_login_text_box ignore_interaction" 
        "type" : "text" 
        "name":"email" 
         "tabindex" : "1"
        "data-group" : "js-editable"
        "placeholder" : "Email"
        "w2cid" : "wZgD2YHa18" 
        "id" : "__w2_wZgD2YHa18_email"
        }

I am not sure How far it is possible, but I am expecting like in dictionaries we can extract data even without knowing the keys. Thank you

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ewwink · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-12 12:08:03Z

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To get placeholder attribute use get_attribute()

element.get_attribute('placeholder')

answered Dec 12, 2018 at 12:08

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ryan.tran · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-12 12:05:41Z

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Define the xpath of the input tag which you wish to extract the placeholder.

xpath_input = "//input[@id='__w2_wZgD2YHa18_email']"
driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath_input)

After get the element, you can extract placeholder ("Email") by get_attribute("placeholder")

answered Dec 12, 2018 at 12:05

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Kasi Visvanathan Over a year ago

driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath_input).get_attribute("placeholder") This is working

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-12 12:16:40Z

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To extract the placeholder text i.e. Email you need to induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable and then use get_attribute() method as follows:

Line of Code:

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='text header_login_text_box ignore_interaction' and @name='email']"))).get_attribute("placeholder"))

Console Output:
```
Email
```

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

answered Dec 12, 2018 at 12:16

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