selenium count elements of xpath

Question

i have a webpage with a table containing many Download links i want to let selenium click on the last one :

table:

item1 Download
item2 Download
item3 Download

selenium must click on Download next item3

i used xpath to find all elments then get size of returned array or dict in this way

x = bot._driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Download')]").size()

but i get always this error

TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable

i tried to use get_xpath_count methode but the methode doen't exist in selenium in python!

i thought about another solution but i don't know how to do it and it is as following

x = bot._driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//a[contains(text(),'Download')])[size()-1]")

or

x = bot._driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//a[contains(text(),'Download')])[last()]")

or something else

Can you print the result of `bot._driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Download')]")`? — , Aug 20 '13 at 20:02
[size](https://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html#selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement.size) is a property. If you want to find all items matching your `xpath` use `find_elements_by_xpath` (note the `s`). — Maciej Gol, Aug 20 '13 at 20:05
@kroolik, yeah it works now with "s" but it returns an empty list, `size()` doesn't work but `len(x)` works. in another hand `bot._driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//a[contains(text(),'Download')])[5]").click()` ***without "s"*** works! so why does `find_elements_by_xpath` returns empty list :/ — Ben Ishak, Aug 20 '13 at 20:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 13 '17 at 08:20

Use find_elements_by_xpath to get number of relevant elements

count = len(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath))

Then click on the last element:

elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath[count])
elem.click()

Notice: the find_elements_by_xpath is plural in first code snippet

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 11 '15 at 23:07

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Although get_xpath_count("Xpath_Expression") does not exist in Python, you can use

len(bot._driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Download')]"))

to achieve the number of elements, and then iterate through then, using

something.xpath(//a[position()=n])

where

n < len(bot._driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(),'Download')]"))

edited Apr 11 '15 at 23:07

Nima Soroush

answered Sep 10 '13 at 17:47

Lucas Ribeiro

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I use find_elements_by_xpath instead of find_element_by_xpath. The method have Plural. – Renato Prado Jun 12 '15 at 00:08
Thanks a lot, this help me – RBoschini Mar 22 '18 at 13:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '13 at 21:24

the best way to do this is to use JavaScript and find elements by class name

self.bot._driver.execute_script("var e = document.getElementsByClassName('download'); e[e.length-1].click()")

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