How to get img src in string in selenium using python

Question

I have a google search result, something like

div class="rc"
    h3 class="r"
        <a href="somelink">
            <img id="idFOO" src="data:somethingFOO" style="...">
        </a>

I want to add somethingFOO (or data:somethingFOO) to a string using python & selenium. How can I do that?

what do you mean you wan to add, do you mean you want to fetch this text and combine with string or you want to add something to this text ? — Gaurang Shah
– Gaurang Shah, Commented Jul 20, 2017 at 13:21
I want to put "somethingFOO" in a string. For example I want to be able to do "return string" and the result to be "somethingFOO". — cosminp
– cosminp, Commented Jul 20, 2017 at 13:23
I've tried myString=browser.find_element_by_class_name("r").text but I don't get what I want. I get some other text. I've tried find_element_by_id("idFOO).text and I get nothing. — cosminp
– cosminp, Commented Jul 20, 2017 at 13:27
Possible duplicate of accessing selenium web elements with python — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented Jul 20, 2017 at 15:39

Gaurang Shah · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-20 13:32:48Z

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what you are interested is not a text, it's an attribute with name src. so if you will do something like that, you won't get what you want.

find_element_by_id("idFOO").text

if your html is like this,

<input id="demo">hello world </input>

then the following code will give you hello world

driver.find_element_by_id("demo").text

and following code will give you demo

driver.find_element_by_id("demo").get_attribute("id")

so in your case, it should be

driver.find_element_by_id("idFOO").get_attribute("src")

answered Jul 20, 2017 at 13:32

Gaurang Shah

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Gaurang Shah Over a year ago

@cosminp you could select the answer, if it's working so it help others.

cosminp Over a year ago

Just did that. :) Quick question if I may, can I do something to look only for a substring in driver.find_element_by_id("idFOO")? I'd like something like driver.find_element_by_id("idF*").

Gaurang Shah Over a year ago

yes, driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(@id,'idF')]")

Rahul Chawla · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-20 13:34:24Z

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Try:

src = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='rc]/h3[@class='r']/a/img").get_attribute("src")

P.S.- Used full available xpath to avoid duplicate conflicts on actual DOM.

answered Jul 20, 2017 at 13:34

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