[FIXED] I'm having trouble saving my Python (selenium) output to a txt file

Issue

I'm having trouble saving my output to a file. I'm using the following script (note this is an Australian website):

from selenium import webdriver
import time

    chrome_path =r"C:\Users\Tom\Desktop\chromedriver.exe"
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)
    driver.get("https://pointsbet.com.au/basketball/NBA")

    time.sleep(2)

    driver.find_element_by_xpath("""/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/sport-competition-component/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div/event-list/div[1]/event/div/header/div[1]/h2/a""").click()
    time.sleep(2)


    posts = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("market")
    for post in posts:
        print(post.text)


    with open('output12.txt',mode ='w') as f:
        f.write(str(post))

the output in the txt file come out as:

<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="af079b982b14f33d736b6745ad6e9648", element="0.8397874328987758-6")>

it should come out as something like this (depending on the websites data at that point in time):

HEAD TO HEAD Memphis Grizzlies 1.55 Miami Heat 2.53 LINE Memphis Grizzlies -4.0 1.92 Miami Heat +4.0 1.92 TOTAL POINTS Over 195.5 1.87 Under 195.5 1.96 NAME A BET FEATURE Mike Conley and Marc Gasol To Combine For 41+ Points 2.50

The above is how the text prints when the script is run.

ANy help would be great

thanks- new to stack overflow- this is fantastic

Solution

Correct your for loop as follows and tell if it works for you : note that the with open(...) ... must be inside the for loop, not outside ! You also need to open the file in append mode.

for post in posts:
    print(post.text)
    with open('output12.txt',mode ='a') as f:
        f.write(post.text)

The other solution, more efficient one, as pointed out by @Tommy could be:

with open('output12.txt',mode ='w') as f:    
        for post in posts:
            print(post.text)
            f.write(post.text)

Answered By - Neroksi