find_elements_by_partial_link_text() driver method - Selenium Python

Selenium's Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides 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 geeksforgeeks, 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_elements_by_partial_link_text() is discussed in this article. This method returns a list with type of elements specified. To grab a single first element, checkout - find_element_by_partial_link_text() driver method – Selenium Python

Syntax -

driver.find_elements_by_partial_link_text("partial link text")

Example -

For instance, consider this page source:

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

login_form = driver.find_elements_by_partial_link_text('Click')

How to use driver.find_elements_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 Tutorials from navbar. Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_elements_by_partial_link_text method -

Now run using -

Python run.py

First, it will open firefox window with geeksforgeeks, and then select the element and print it on terminal as show below.

Browser Output -

Terminal Output -