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Python Selenium Get All "href" attributes


How will I get all the "href" attributes for this "h2" titles on this page?

<h2 class="entry-title">
<a href="http://www.allitebooks.com/deep-learning-with-python-2/" rel="bookmark">Deep Learning with Python</a>
</h2>

What I have tried doesn't get the href, is:

title = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('entry-title')
title[0].get_attribute('href')

This did not get the links for "a" tag. And if I do a find all elements on "a" tag, it will return every href on the page (which isn't what I wanted). I want to return just the titles as above but be able to get their url "href" attributes.


Solution

  • Here code getting all books from all pages:

    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
    from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
    
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
    baseUrl = "http://www.allitebooks.com/page/1/?s=python"
    driver.get(baseUrl)
    
    # wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
    # wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".search-result-list li")))
    
    # Get last page number
    lastPage = int(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".pagination a:last-child").text)
    
    # Get all HREFs for the first page and save them in hrefs list
    js = 'return [...document.querySelectorAll(".entry-title a")].map(e=>e.href)'
    hrefs = driver.execute_script(js)
    
    # Iterate throw all pages and get all HREFs of books
    for i in range(2, lastPage):
        driver.get("http://www.allitebooks.com/page/" + str(i) + "/?s=python")
        hrefs.extend(driver.execute_script(js))
    
    for href in hrefs:
        print(href)