Get visible text of page

Question

How do I get the visible text portion of a web page with selenium webdriver without the HTML tags?

I need something equivalent to the function HtmlPage.asText() from Htmlunit.

It is not enough to take the text with the function WebDriver.getSource and parse it with jsoup because there could be in the page hidden elements (by external CSS) which I am not interested in them.

Answer 1

Doing By.tagName("body") (or some other selector to select the top element), then performing getText() on that element will return all of the visible text.

Answer 2

I can help you with C# Selenium.

By using this you can select all the text on that particular page and save it to a text file at your preferred location.

Make sure you are using this stuff:

using System.IO; using System.Text; using OpenQA.Selenium; using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI; 

After reaching the particular page try using this code.

IWebElement body = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body")); var result = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body")).Text;  // Folder location var dir = @"C:Textfile" + DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();  // If the folder doesn't exist, create it if (!Directory.Exists(dir)) Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);  // Creates a file copiedtext.txt with all the contents on the page. File.AppendAllText(Path.Combine(dir, "Copiedtext.txt"), result);