Getting meta tags from a page source using Selenium Python

Question

I'm trying to fetch the data from the URL https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher&hl=en and fetch the below data

   <meta content="3.99" itemprop="price"> 

I used the following code implemented in Python to fetch but it failed.

    browser = webdriver.Firefox() # Get local session of firefox
    browser.get(sampleURL) # Load page
    assert "Google Play" in browser.title
    priceValue = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@itemprop='price']")#
    print priceValue.text

But it says it can't find the xpath of value price. Any idea why?

EDIT

priceValue = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//meta[@itemprop='price']")
print priceValue.text

I get empty string

Answer 1

If I look at the page source, for example in Chrome view-source:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher&hl=en. I also don't find a <div> element with attribute @itemprop and value price.

So your XPath is completely wrong. Also browser.find_element_by_xpath() returns an element and you want to extract the attribute value of @content. You should then use next:

priceValue = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//meta[@itemprop='price']")
print priceValue.get_attribute("content")