Find the elements only after a specific text in html using selenium python

Question

Lets say I have following HTML Code

<div class="12"> 
  <div class="something"></div> 
</div>
<div class="12"> 
  <div class="34"> 
    <span>TODAY</span> 
  </div>
</div> 
<div class="12"> 
  <div class="something"></div> 
</div> 
<div class="12"> 
  <div class="something"></div> 
</div>

Now If I use driver.find_elements_by_class_name("something") then I get all the classes present in the HTML code. But I want to get classes only after a specific word ("Today") in HTML. How to exclude classes that appear before the specific word. Next divs and classes could be at any level.

Answer 1

You can use search by XPath as below:

driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*/text()[.="some specific word"]/following-sibling::div[@class="something"]')

Note that you might need some modifications in case your real HTML differs from provided simplified HTML

Update

replace following-sibling with following if required div nodes are not siblings:

driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*/text()[.="some specific word"]/following::div[@class="something"]')