[FIXED] if x matches y webscraping selenium

Issue

I'm scraping a website and I want to check if the content that is found by browser.find_element() matches a specific word given in the code. If it does, it should do thing 1; if it doesn't, it should do thing 2.

Check = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, 'XPATH')
if Check == 'Target':
    print('True')
else:
    print('False')

Solution

browser.find_element(By.XPATH, 'XPATH')

Above will return an object of WebElement. If you want to store the content of an HTML node into a variable, you need to use .text. Check the code below:

Check = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, 'XPATH').text

Example:

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")
driver.maximize_window()

Check = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[@class='-img _glyph']").text
if Check == 'Stack Overflow':
    print('True')
else:
    print('False')

Answered By - Shawn