Python Selenium: How can I print the link?

Question

How can I print the value of the href attribute?

<a href="aaaaa.pdf"></a>

How can I print the link aaaaa.pdf with python selenium?

HTML:

<div class="xxxx">
    <a href="aaaaa.pdf"></a>
</div>

Answer 1

div.xxxx a

first, check if this CSS_SELECTOR is representing the desired element.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the css and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

If yes, then use explicit waits:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
print(wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.xxxx a"))).get_attribute('href'))

Imports:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC