How to get href values from a class - Python - Selenium

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<a class="link__f5415c25" href="/profiles/people/1515754-andrea-jung" title="Andrea Jung">

I have above HTML element and tried using

driver.find_elements_by_class_name('link__f5415c25')

and

driver.get_attribute('href')

but it doesn't work at all. I expected to extract values in href.

How can I do that? Thanks!

Try this: document.getElementById(id).href You can also get an element by class name, but I only know this. — user38
– user38, Commented Jul 3, 2019 at 20:20

PixelEinstein · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-03 20:31:17Z

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You have to first locate the element, then retrieve the attribute href, like so:

href = driver.find_element_by_class_name('link__f5415c25').get_attribute('href')

if there are multiple links associated with that class name, you can try something like:

eList = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('link__f5415c25')
hrefList = []
for e in eList:
    hrefList.append(e.get_attribute('href'))

for href in hrefList:
    print(href)

edited Jul 3, 2019 at 20:31

answered Jul 3, 2019 at 20:23

PixelEinstein

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4 Comments

user10835913 Over a year ago

Cool! This actually works very well. Besides, how can I extract all herf links under this class? should I write a loop or something?

PixelEinstein Over a year ago

Yes, I'll update my answer, do they all have the same class name?

user10835913 Over a year ago

YES! They have the same class. Thank you.

PixelEinstein Over a year ago

No problem, happy programming!

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