Find all elements with href tag containing certain text with Selenium and Python

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Lets say I have html code with three links

<a href="hey123"> Whatever </a>
<a href="hey321"> Whatever </a>
<a href="hi123"> Whatever </a>

and I want to use selenium to find all elements which have a href tag which includes the string "hey" (in this case the first two links). How would I write python Selenium code which accomplishes this?

Anand Gautam · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-28 16:07:35Z

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This works:

all_href = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,  "//*[contains(@href, 'hey')]")
print(len(all_href)

answered Feb 28, 2022 at 16:07

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Prophet · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-28 16:08:24Z

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This XPath will do this work:

"//a[contains(@href,'hey')]"

To use that with Selenium you will need a find_elements or findElements method, depends on the language binding you use with Selenium.
For Selenium in Python this will give you the list of all such elements:

all_hey_elements = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,  "//a[contains(@href, 'hey')]")

answered Feb 28, 2022 at 16:08

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