Day069 — web scraping related stuff

Here is the list of things I learn during the development of a web scraper using Selenium.

if-then-else statement in one line:

Putting a simple if-then-else statement on one line

Extract element by matching text:

How to search node by exact text match using Xpath in webdriver

Get parent node from child node in XPath::

XPath: Get parent node from child node

Find closest preceding ancestor node :

XPath 1.0 closest preceding and/or ancestor node with an attribute in a XML Tree

Check which OS:

Python: What OS am I running on?

if platform.system() == "Darwin":
   use "Command"
else:
   use "Control"

Sometimes clear() does not work, use “control +a, Delete”:

Error: type object 'Keys' has no attribute 'chord'

Check empty string:

Most elegant way to check if the string is empty in Python?

if not myString:
   do something