find_element_by_partial_link_text() driver method – Selenium Python

Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provide 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_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, ) is discussed in this article. With this strategy, the first element with the link text value matching the location will be returned. If no element has a matching link text attribute, a NoSuchElementException will be raised.

Syntax – 

driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Text of Link")

Example – 

For instance, consider this page source:  

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

login_form = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, 'Conti')

How to use driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, ) 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 First navbar link using its partial link text “Tuto”. 

Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT) method –  

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 shown below. 

Browser Output –  

Terminal Output – 

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