Is it possible to navigate to the 6th svg tag and then the 4th g tag to get the text of '35'?

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The text '35' is what I am interested of capturing. (It is always the 6th svg tag followed by 4th g tag

My code:

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)
value = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[name()='div' and @id='chartContainer']//*[name()= 'svg' and @style= 'position: absolute; z-index: 6;']//*[name()= 'g' and @font-size= '10pt]")
driver.quit()
print(value)

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Error message: *

InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector: Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression //[name()='div' and @id='chartContainer']//[name()= 'svg' and @style= 'position: absolute; z-index: 6;']//[name()= 'g' and @font-size= '10pt] because of the following error: SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '//[name()='div' and @id='chartContainer']//[name()= 'svg' and @style= 'position: absolute; z-index: 6;']//[name()= 'g' and @font-size= '10pt]' is not a valid XPath expression. (Session info: chrome=94.0.4606.81)

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2 Answers

' is missing at last of your xPath expression.

value = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[name()='div' and @id='chartContainer']//*[name()= 'svg' and @style= 'position: absolute; z-index: 6;']//*[name()= 'g' and @font-size= '10pt']")

But the above xPath what you have written points to 6th svg tag and the 6th g tag.

You need to use either any one of the below xPath to point 6th svg and 4th g tag.

//*[name()='div' and @id='chartContainer']//*[name()= 'svg' and @style= 'position: absolute; z-index: 6;']//*[name()= 'g' ][4]

Or

//*[name()='div' and @id='chartContainer']//*[name()= 'svg'][6]//*[name()= 'g' ][4]
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You can point to 6th svg and 4th g tag like that :

((//div[@id='chartContainer']//*[name()='svg'])[6]//*[name()='g'])[4]//*[name()='text']

In code :

value = driver.find_element_by_xpath("((//div[@id='chartContainer']//*[name()='svg'])[6]//*[name()='g'])[4]//*[name()='text']").text
print(value)

Please put some explicit waits as well before interaction.

Code trial 1 :

time.sleep(5)
value = driver.find_element_by_xpath("((//div[@id='chartContainer']//*[name()='svg'])[6]//*[name()='g'])[4]//*[name()='text']").text
print(value)

Code trial 2 :

value = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "((//div[@id='chartContainer']//*[name()='svg'])[6]//*[name()='g'])[4]//*[name()='text']"))).text
print(value)

Imports :

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

PS : Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

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

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