How to get value in input text field in Selenium Python?

Selenium Python - Get value in input text field

In this tutorial, you will learn how to get or read the value entered by a user in an input text field in Selenium Python.

To get the value present in an input text field in Selenium Python, you can use get_attribute() method of the element object.

Steps to get the value present in input text field

  1. Find the input text field element in the web page using driver.find_element() method.
  2. Call get_attribute() method on the input text field element, and pass the attribute name 'value' to the method. The method returns the value present in the input text field.
value = input_text_element.get_attribute('value')

Example

In the following example, we initialize a Chrome webdriver, navigate to a specific URL:/tmp/selenium/index-36.html, that contains a form element with a couple of input text fields, take the screenshot, get the value present in the input text field whose id="fname", and print the value to standard output.

Python Program

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

# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
driver.set_window_size(500, 500)

# Navigate to the url
driver.get('/tmp/selenium/index-36.html')

# Take a screenshot of the webpage
driver.save_screenshot("screenshot.png")

# Find input text field
input_text_fname = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'fname')

# Get the value in the input text field
input_text_value = input_text_fname.get_attribute('value')
print(input_text_value)

# Close the driver
driver.quit()

Output

Hero

/tmp/selenium/index-36.html

<html>
 <body>
  <h3>My Form</h3>
  <form action="">
    <label for="fname">First name:</label>
    <input type="text" id="fname" name="fname" value="Hero"><br><br>
    <label for="lname">Last name:</label>
    <input type="text" id="lname" name="lname" value="Super"><br><br>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
 </body>
</html>

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Selenium Python - Get value in input text field

Summary

In this Python Selenium tutorial, we have given instructions on how to get the value in an input text field, using get_attribute() method.