How to retrieve partial text from a text node using Selenium and Python

To print text … you have to induceWebDriverWait for the

visibility_of_element_located()

• Using

  CSS_SELECtOR

  , childNodes and

  strip()

  :

  print(driver.execute_script('return arguments[0].firstChild.textContent;', WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.call_recipe[href^='/recipes']")))).strip())

• Using

  XPATH

  ,

  get_attribute()

  and

  splitlines()

  :

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[@ and starts-with(@href, '/recipes')]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML").splitlines()[1])

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

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