[FIXED] How to copy tags in selenium when element contains multiple classnames?

Issue

Scraping data from a website in which a lot of text was hidden under the "see more" tab.

Via selenium click all such buttons and then scrape using beautifulsoup. However, a few of the buttons have extra whitespaces in their HTML tags. copying and pasting them to browser.find_element_by_class_name('') always yields an error.

 class="pv-profile-section__see-more-inline pv-profile-section__text-truncate-toggle
        artdeco-button artdeco-button--tertiary artdeco-button--muted"

Notice how there's extra white space behind artdeco, could anyone help me with this please? Manually adding those spaces or putting them in same line doesn't do anything.

Solution

Note: You won't be able to pass multiple classnames as argument through find_element_by_class_name() cause it only accept a single classname


To find element by multiple classnames try to use css-selectors:

browser.find_element_by_css_selector(".firstClassName.secondClassName")

Answered By - HedgeHog