Detect a tag using selenium

Question

When I use

thumbnails = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'thumbnails')

and iterate through it's children, how can I detect the tag like div or a? Example structure:

<div class="thumbnails">
   <div class="section">Section 1</div>
   <a href="#">Link 1.1</a>
   <a href="#">Link 1.2</a>
   <a href="#">Link 1.3</a>
   <a href="#">Link 1.4</a>
   <div class="section">Section 2</div>
   <a href="#">Link 2.1</a>
   <a href="#">Link 2.2</a>
   <div class="section">Section 3</div>
   <a href="#">Link 3.1</a>
   <a href="#">Link 3.2</a>
   <a href="#">Link 3.3</a>
   <a href="#">Link 3.4</a>
   <a href="#">Link 3.5</a>
   <a href="#">Link 3.6</a>
   <a href="#">Link 3.7</a>
</div>

I need to create a json object like below:

[
   {
      "section_name": section_name,
      "links": a_tags_list
   }
]

Answer 1

thumbnails = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'thumbnails')

a_tags_list=[x.text for x in thumbnails.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME,'a')]

Not sure if you want the text or get_attribute('outerhtml')

But you could just use the element thumbnails and find elements from there.

If you want to grab all the children with the tags div or a tag.

allChildren=thumbnails.find_elements(By.XPATH,'./a | ./div')

you can then loop this and check if it has an href attribute.

for child in allChildren:
    if child.get_attribute('href'):
        a_tags_list.append(child.get_attribute('href'))
    else:
        #stuff