Getting a list of elements by using Selenium

Question

I am attempting to obtain the differents sports that are highlighted on a bookmaker's betting page in order to extract later on the different odds and compare them with other bookmaker's pages. The inspect result is shown on the picture. The code I tried is the following :

sport_list = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "filters__content")

for sport in sport_list:

print(sport.text)

Unfortunately sport_list is only composed of one element why I would expect it to have the same number of elements than the number of sports visible in the inspect section.

It loops only 1 time and returns the following : " Soccer\nTennis\nBasketball\nAmericanFootball ..."

Can someone help me figure out what is going wrong ?

Thanks in advance.

Brieuc

Answer 1

What happens?

Cause you are selecting the <div> that contains the list you get an resultset with one element (<div>) only.

driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "filters__content")

How to fix?

Selecting the <li>s in <div> and get its text use xpath or as in following example css selectors.

for e in driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR,'.filters__content li'):
    print(e.text)

Output

Football
Tennis
Basketball
Football Américain
Hockey sur glace
Esports
Volleyball
Handball
Boxe
Rugby
Snooker
Fléchettes
Cyclisme
Waterpolo
MMA
Stock Car Racing