How to get the img URL of an element in Ruby Selenium WebDriver

Question

super noob here so i apologize in advance for any dumb question...

I am trying to create a script that finds and image by :id, saves it's image URL (named also img src), and then clicks on the image.

so far i've done:

    require 'rubygems'
    require 'selenium-webdriver'

    driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for:firefox
    wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 15)

    driver.get 'http://example.com'

    image = wait.until {
        element = driver.find_element(:id,'id_image')
        element if element.displayed?
    }
    #this is the part where i would like to save the IMAGE URL 
    image click.click

I just took the relevant part of the code, i can assure you that so far it all works perfectly but i just can't save the IMAGE URL.

Thank you!

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '16 at 06:50

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You want the href attribute of the element. In selenium you get attributes using element.attribute('attribute-name')

In your case you would do something like:

href = image.attribute('href')

answered Jun 01 '16 at 06:50

Mobrockers

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I've been trying for a while but still can't manage to get that value. I've tried: `puts image['href']` and `puts image.attribute('href')` but still can't get anything... what am i missing? – Acolli Jun 06 '16 at 10:58
You're probably selecting the wrong element then. Try selecting the element of the image instead. – Mobrockers Jun 06 '16 at 12:39
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it worked! had to use the xpath to locate the element and in the end i was looking for the attribute ('src') – Acolli Jun 06 '16 at 13:17
Next time I suggest you post your html you're trying to select :) – Mobrockers Jun 06 '16 at 13:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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I would recommend you to use Capybara since it has several useful selectors.

At this way, you could get the URL attribute with something like this:

href = driver.find_element(:id, 'id_image')[href]

Related question: Capybara: is it possible to get an attribute value from a css string?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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answered May 31 '16 at 13:57

gmfvpereira

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How to get the img URL of an element in Ruby Selenium WebDriver

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