find_elements_by_name() driver method – Selenium Python

27 July 2024

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Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out – Navigating links using get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as neveropen, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task.

This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_elements_by_name() is discussed in this article. This method returns a list with type of elements specified.
To grab a single first element, checkout – find_element_by_name() driver method – Selenium Python

Syntax –

driver.find_elements_by_name("name")

Example –
For instance, consider this page source:

<html> 
 <body> 
  <form id="loginForm"> 
   <input name="1" type="text" /> 
   <input name="1" type="password" /> 
   <input name="1" type="submit" value="Login" /> 
  </form> 
 </body> 
<html> 

Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using –

login_form = driver.find_elements_by_name('1')

How to use driver.find_elements_by_name() method in Selenium?

Let’s try to practically implement this method and get a element instance for “https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/”. Let’s try to grab search form input using its name “articleTitle”.
Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_elements_by_name method –

# Python program to demonstrate 
# selenium 
  
# import webdriver 
from selenium import webdriver 
  
# create webdriver object 
driver = webdriver.Firefox() 
  
# enter keyword to search 
keyword = "neveropen"
  
# get geeksforgeeks.org 
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/") 
  
# get elements 
elements = driver.find_elements_by_name("articleTitle") 
  
# print complete elements list 
print(element) 

Now run using –

Python run.py

First, it will open firefox window with neveropen, and then select the element and print it on terminal as show below.
Browser Output –

Terminal Output –