Get last paragraph in Selenium

Selenium Python - Get last paragraph

In this tutorial, you will learn how to get the last paragraph in the document using Selenium in Python.

In Selenium Python, call find_elements() method of the WebDriver object and pass the arguments: By.TAGNAME for by parameter and "p" for the value parameter. The method returns all the paragraph elements as an array.

all_paragraphs = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "p")

From this array you can get the last paragraph element in the document by getting the last element of the array using index=-1.

last_paragraph = all_paragraphs[-1]

Examples

1. Get the last paragraph in the document

In the following example, we shall consider loading the HTML file at path /tmp/selenium/index-5.html . The contents of this HTML file is given below.

<html>
  <body>
    <h2>Hello User!</h2>
    <p>Apple is red.</p>
    <p>Banana is yellow.</p>
    <p>Cherry is red.</p>
  </body>
</html>

In the following program, we initialize a webdriver, navigate to a specific URL, get the last paragraph element, and print the paragraph text to the standard output.

Python Program

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

# Navigate to the url
driver.get('/tmp/selenium/index-5.html')

# Get the first paragraph element
all_paragraphs = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "p")
last_paragraph = all_paragraphs[-1]
print(f"The last paragraph is :\n{last_paragraph.text}")

# Close the driver
driver.quit()

Output

Selenium Python - Get last paragraph

Summary

In this Python Selenium tutorial, we have given instructions on how to get the last paragraph element in the document using find_elements() method of WebDriver class, with example programs.