Using text from cell to match title to obtain cell below with Python and Selenium

Question

I am trying to fetch the text of a cell from a table where the title matches "Make" in the another cell in the same table row.

For example, in the code example below I am trying to fetch the text "Lako" from the within a (cell) and it needs to match the title "Make" in the (cell) above within the same (row). Unfortunately, all other tables have the same layout

I have tried the following, but it did not work:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//tr[contains(text(), "Make")]/td[@class="value"]/a')

Example code:


    Website ref. :
    7334892

    Bodywork
     Car carrier 
    

    Make
    Lako

        Model
        DUPLO PISO
    
    Condition
    Used

        Date of first registration
        06/22/1994
    
    Country
    PORTUGAL

    Manufacturer
    Lako

user_7326738 · Answer

Instead of an xpath, you can use driver.find_element_by_css_selector, anchoring your search on the parent tr of "Make":

driver.find_element_by_css_selector('tbody > tr:nth-of-type(3) a')

Should the tr with "Make" vary in position across pages, you can also use driver.execute_script to run a custom Javascript snippet:

result = driver.execute_script("""
  for (var i of document.querySelectorAll('tbody > tr')){
    if (i.querySelector('td.title').textContent === 'Make'){
       return i.querySelector('td.value a').textContent;
    }
  }
""")

user_2571301 · Answer

I used ancestor

driver.find_element_by_xpath('.//td[contains(text(),"Make")]//ancestor::tr/td[@class="value"]').text

Using text from cell to match title to obtain cell below with Python and Selenium

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