How to get the html source of a specific element with selenium?

Question

The page I\'m looking at contains :

 
 text 1 
 text 2 
 text 3 
 text 4 
 
 

        
                      

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Answer 1

What about using jQuery?

Edit:

First you have to add the required .JS files, for that go to www.jQuery.com.

Then all you need to do is call a simple jQuery selector:

alert($("div#1").html());

Answer 2

The following code will give you the HTML in the div element:

sel = selenium('localhost', 4444, browser, my_url)
html = sel.get_eval("this.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().document.getElementById('1').innerHTML")

then you can use BeautifulSoup to parse it and extract what you really want.

I hope it helps

Answer 3

The selected answer does not work in Python 3 at the time of writing. Instead use this:

from selenium import webdriver

wd = webdriver.Firefox()
wd.get(url)
return wd.execute_script('return window.document.getElementById('1').innerHTML')

Answer 4

Use xpath. From selenium.py:

Without an explicit locator prefix, Selenium uses the following default strategies:

• \**dom**\ , for locators starting with "document."
• \**xpath**\ , for locators starting with "//"
• \**identifier**\ , otherwise

In your case, you could try

selenium.get_text("//div[@id='1']/descendant::*[not(self::h1)]")

You can learn more about xpath here.

P.S. I don't know if there's good HTML documentation available for python-selenium, but I haven't found any; on the other hand, the docstrings of the selenium.py file seem to constitute comprehensive documentation. So I'd suggest looking up the source to get a better understanding of how it works.