Scraping webpage with selenium (python)

Question

Hi I would like to scrap what is selected in the following image:

Image Code

I know i could use the following code to get the text:

cell = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(".//*[@id='ip_selection1233880116name']") print cell.text 

But my problem is that ip_selection1233880116name should be dynamic, given that it changes every time as you can see from the image.

How could I do it?

Thanks a lot for your help!!!!

Answer 1

Use contains to catch just the name presuming the numbers all all that change, for a single element you should also use find_element as opposed to find_elements :

find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(@id,'ip_selection') and contains(@id,'name')]") 

You could also use starts-with and ends-with depending on the browser:

find_element_by_xpath("//*[starts-with(@id,'ip_selection') and ends-with(@id,'name')]")