how to access second span tag under class in xpath

Question

I am trying to access data from XPath for the below data. I wanted to get the Hostname - 192.81.xx.xx and ISP - Random

<div class="left">
 <p class="information">
    <span>Hostname</span>
    <span>192.81.xx.xx</span>
 </p>
 <p class="information">
    <span>ISP</span>
    <span>Random</span>
 </p>
</div>

Xpath I've Tried - //div[@class="left"]//p[@class="information"]//span[contains(text(), "Hostname:")]

cruisepandey · Answer 1 · 2022-02-06T14:06:11.070

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this xpath

//div[@class="left"]//p[@class="information"]//span

will return 4 nodes.

<span>Hostname</span>
<span>192.81.xx.xx</span>
<span>ISP</span>
<span>Random</span>

based on the HTML that you've shared.

you should use find_elements that will return list of web elements.

Also, if you use the above XPath with find_element it will always fetch the first matching node which is <span>Hostname</span>

to get specific node:

to get 192.81.xx.xx use the below XPath:

//div[@class="left"]//p[@class="information"]//span[1]

for random:

//div[@class="left"]//p[2][@class="information"]//span[2]

edited Feb 06 '22 at 14:06

answered Feb 06 '22 at 14:03

cruisepandey

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I wanted to get only values i.e., 192.81.xx.xx and Random only – Kashish Kori Feb 06 '22 at 14:05
you can get it from list which is more relevant in your case, if you wish to have separate `find_element` command use the above two XPath that I have updated just now. – cruisepandey Feb 06 '22 at 14:07
How can we fetch the second node data only – Kashish Kori Feb 06 '22 at 14:23
This is not the expectations here at stackoverflow, user should not be changing original question, if you have follow up questions, create a new thread. – cruisepandey Feb 06 '22 at 14:28
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@cruisepandey I see you won't get points from the author here, so I gave it :) – Prophet Feb 06 '22 at 14:51
@Prophet: That's the most frustrating thing here at StackOverflow. Anyway thnx, cheers ! – cruisepandey Feb 06 '22 at 15:20
I know, colleague :) – Prophet Feb 06 '22 at 15:35

how to access second span tag under class in xpath

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