How can I adjust this line of selenium code to get the status info of this item?

Question

I have this line of code which I am trying to use to obtain the status of an item. Here is the line of code:

item_status = driver.findElement(By.className("status-info")).getText();

I'm not sure how I can adjust this to retrieve the text seen here:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


options=Options()
driver=webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

#Directing to site
driver.get("https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Switch-OLED-Model-Neon/dp/B098TNW7NM/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Nintendo+Switch&qid=1651147043&sr=8-3");
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[2]/span/form/div[3]/span[1]/span/input"))).click()
    

Answer 1

When you are doing this

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[1]/header/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/form/div[3]/div/span/input"))).click()

it will click on search icon, now on the result page, this xpath //span[@class='a-size-base a-color-success a-text-bold'] is not present hence nothing is getting printed on the console you are likely to face TimedoutException.

However looking at the screenshot that you've shared, I would say to use this xpath

//div[@id='availability']//span[contains(text(),'In stock.')]

If you want to print the text and tag

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@id='availability']//span[contains(text(),'In stock.')]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))

If only text you want:

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@id='availability']//span[contains(text(),'In stock.')]"))).get_attribute("innerText"))

Answer 2

driver.findElement(By.className("status-info")) is the Java syntax and getText() is a Java method. Possibly you need Python syntax and method.

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Solution

To print the text In stock. you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span.a-size-base.a-color-success.a-text-bold"))).text)
  

• Using XPATH:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='a-size-base a-color-success a-text-bold']"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

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