In Selenium with Python, the get_attribute() method is used to retrieve the value of a specific attribute from an HTML element. This can be particularly useful when you need to access values like href for links, src for images, class, id, or other attributes of HTML elements.
- Selenium Features
- Selenium Installation
- Selenium Locators
- XPath Fundamentals
- CSS Selectors Methods
- Different Browsers Execution
- find_element & find_elements
- Check Enabled Status
- Check Displayed Status
- Check Selected Status
- Selenium Waits
- Send_keys Method
- Click Method
- Get Text
- Get Attribute Value
- Get Current URL
- Forward, Back, Refresh
- Take Screenshot
- Handle Browser Tabs
- Handle iframe
- Mouse Hover
- Context-Click
- Drag & Drop
- Handle Alerts
- Handle Dropdown
- Execute Javascript
- Scroll To element
- Headless Mode Execution
- Chrome Options
- Keyboard Action
Basic Syntax
element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, 'your_xpath_here')
attribute_value = element.get_attribute('attribute_name')
Example Usage
Here’s an example of how you might use get_attribute() to get the URL from a link:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# Initialize the WebDriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
# Open a webpage
driver.get('https://sqatools.in/')
# Find an element and get its attribute
element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[text()='Python Tutorials']")
href_value = element.get_attribute('href')
print("The link URL is:", href_value)
# Close the WebDriver
driver.quit()
In this example:
- driver.find_element(By.XPATH, ‘//a[text()=’Python Tutorials’]’) locates an element with the XPath specified.
- element.get_attribute(‘href’) retrieves the
hrefthe attribute value of the located<a>(anchor) element.
Common Use Cases
- href for link URLs
- src for image URLs
- class for CSS class names
- id for unique identifiers
- data-* attributes for custom data