Parsing HTML table data with xpath and selenium in java

Answer 1

Probably this will suite your needs:

string text = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("table.SpecTable")).getText();

String text will contain all text nodes from the table with class SpecTable. I prefer using css, because it's supported by IE and faster than xpath. But as for xpath tutorials try this and this.

Answer 2

The spec is surprisingly a very good read on XPath.

You might also try CSS selectors.

Anyway, one way to get the data from a table can be as following:

// gets all rows
List<WebElement> rows = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//table[@class='SpecTable']//tr"));
// for every line, store both columns
for (WebElement row : rows) {
    WebElement key = row.findElement(By.XPath("./td[1]"));
    doAnythingWithText(key.getText());
    WebElement val = row.findElement(By.XPath("./td[2]"));
    doAnythingWithText(val.getText());
}

Answer 3

CSharp method to extract any table in a 2 dimension array:

private string[,] getYourSpecTable(){
    return getArrayBy(By.CssSelector("table.SpecTable tr"), By.CssSelector("td"));
}

private string[,] getArrayBy(By rowsBy, By columnsBy){
    bool init=false;
    int nbRow=0, nbCol=0;
    string[,] ret = null;
    ReadOnlyCollection<OpenQA.Selenium.IWebElement> rows = this.webDriver.FindElements(rowsBy);
    nbRow = rows.Count;
    for(int r=0;r<nbRow;r++) {
        ReadOnlyCollection<OpenQA.Selenium.IWebElement> cols = rows[r].FindElements(columnsBy);
        if(!init) {
            init= true;
            nbCol = cols.Count;
            ret = new string[rows.Count, cols.Count];
        }                
        for(int c=0;c<nbCol;c++) {
            ret[r, c] = cols[c].Text;
        }
    }
    return ret;
}

Answer 4

As another option you could grab all the cells of the table into one array and access them that way. EG.

ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> Cells = driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//table[@class='SpecTable']//tr//td"));

This will get you all the cells in that table as an array which you can then use to access the text iteratively.

string forOutput = Cells[i].Text;