How to get text inside a span Python Selenium

Question

I want to make a check for the appearance of text on the page that is inside The text looks something like "Constantly different nickname" + "Constantly the same text" on the same line. I tried to make it like this

s = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[text()='has joined & will be ready to chat in just a minute.']").text()
print(s)

And many more different attempts, but nothing worked I need to get the whole string when its permanent part appears on the page

Marco · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-08 00:46:47Z

1

Use expected conditions to wait until an element appears on the page. Set an appropriate amount of seconds in WebDriverWait that you think the element should appear.

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

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
    EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='has joined & will be ready to chat in just a minute.']"))
)

Read also the docs regarding Waits: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html

edited Jan 8, 2022 at 0:46

answered Jan 7, 2022 at 21:13

Marco

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2 Comments

Arundeep Chohan Over a year ago

Use visibility here since this just checks to see if the element is there.

Marco Over a year ago

True as he cleary mentioned "appearence", thank you @Arundeep Chohan. I edited my answer.

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