How to get text of a div element with selenium in python? [closed]

Question

I keep trying to find the text of this div and it keeps coming up with this: selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".match-team__score match__score--home u-font-weight-300"}

• very new to web scraping so pls explain where im going wrong lol.

my current code for this section is here:

scorehome = match.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "match-team__score match__score--home u-font-weight-300")
match_scorehome = scorehome.get_attribute("outerHTML")
print(match_scorehome)                     
scoreaway = match.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "match-team__score match__score--away u-font-weight-300")                     
match_scoreaway = scoreaway.get_attribute("outerHTML")
print(match_scoreaway)

I've tried searching by xpath as well, same result 'no such element'

for reference here is the website's code that i'm trying to get the text from:

<div class="match-team__score match-team__score--home u-font-weight-300">
<span class="u-visually-hidden">Scored</span>         
6
<span class="u-visually-hidden">points</span>
</div>

the expected result should be '6' not any of the text from the spans.

this also doesn't work, it just times out:

match_scorehome = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[contains(@class, 'match-team__score match__score--away u-font-weight-300')]"))).text                     print(match_scorehome)

if this helps at all, here is the other related code:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30)                 
match_elements = wait.until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.ID, "draw-content")))

it goes into a for loop (for match in match_elements) and works for every other element (team names and date).

Answer 1

By.CLASS_NAME wants a single classname, but you're passing 2 with a space between.

Since you only seem to care about the match-team__score--home part I'd just check on that class:

driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'match-team__score--home')

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If you want to check for both classes, I'd use By.CSS_SELECTOR so you can combine both classes into a selector.

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div.match-team__score.match-team__score--home.u-font-weight-300')