Python Selenium 'WebDriver' object has no attribute error

Question

I'm trying to scrape some javascript-generated content from a Chinese-language website. I'm using Selenium (and Python) since I can't scrape the javascript content directly.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.selenium import selenium 

import time
import urllib2
import httplib
import urllib
import re
import base64

browser = webdriver.Firefox() # Get local session of firefox
browser.get("http://www...") # Load page (redacted here, but any works)
browser.get_body_text() #Attempt to scrape body text

And I get the following error:

'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'get_body_text'

In fact, I can't seem to call any commands in the selenium.selenium class. No doubt I'm overlooking something very obvious. Thanks in advance.

what is the version you are using,, for version 2.21.3 this function is not available — avasal
– avasal, Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 7:59
also are you sure from selenium.selenium import selenium works — avasal
– avasal, Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 8:02
Thanks @avasal for the reply! I'm using 2.25.0. Not entirely sure if from selenium.selenium import selenium is working here but not sure how else to import commands from that class. Certainly not throwing up errors and have seen others using this code. — DannyMatt
– DannyMatt, Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 8:07
try to execute each of these lines one by one in python prompt.. you will hit the error properly — avasal
– avasal, Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 8:08
Unfortunately in the prompt it still throws up the same for the last command: AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'get_body_text' — DannyMatt
– DannyMatt, Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 8:11

kreativitea · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-18 17:53:41Z

5

You only need from selenium import webdriver.
Execute html= browser.find_element_by_xpath(".//html") to get the html element on the page, the largest element. (You can do this any number of ways, and select any number of elements. )
Execute html.text to return the text of the page.

.text is a method of an element object. Step 2 is the assignment of the element to the name html.

answered Oct 18, 2012 at 17:53

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