Question

Following is the table HTML source which seems to be very complex for selenium to read its contents.. Can somebody help me, reading this data into python using selenium?

<div class="general_table">
    <div class="general_s">
        <div class="general_text1">Name</div>
        <div class="general_text2">Abhishek</div>
    </div>
    <div class="general_m">
        <div class="general_text1">Last Name</div>
        <div class="general_text2">Kulkarni</div>
    </div>
    <div class="general_s">
        <div class="general_text1">Phone</div>
        <div class="general_text2"> 13613123</div>
    </div>
    <div class="general_m">
        <div class="general_text1">Cell Phone</div>
        <div class="general_text2">82928091</div>
    </div>         
    <div class="general_s">
        <div class="general_text1">City</div>
        <div class="general_text2"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="general_m">
        <div class="general_text1">Model</div>
        <div class="general_text2"> DELL PERC H700</div>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 1

To read this table using selenium webdriver, xpath seems to be the easy way –

I’m do not know python properly so the code might be wrong but the idea seems to be right –

To find out the number of div tags with in the general_table we use the xpath –

driver.find_elements_by_xpath(("//*[@class='general_table']/div") which will return a List with size – 6.

Then you can loop through each of the elements using a loop –

for(int i=1;i<=list.length;i++){
    String text1 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='general_table']/div["+i+"]/div[1]").text;
    String text2 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='general_table']/div["+i+"]/div[2]").text;
}

You can read all the tags in the table by this way.