How can I find all elements in a webpage using selenium python

Question

This is a very straightforward question but surprisingly I cant find the answer on the internet. I am trying to find all elements presents in a webpage. I know that in selenium to find elements you can say:

driver.find_elements_by_tag_name()
driver.find_elements_by_class_name()
driver.find_elements_by_css_selector()
driver.find_elements_by_name()
driver.find_elements_by_id()

and so on. But how can I find all the elements?

Answer 1

Try xpath

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

driver.get('http://google.com')

ele = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id]')
for x in ele:
    print(x.tag_name, x.get_attribute('id'))

Gives

div gb
div gbwa
dialog spch-dlg
div spch
button spchx
div spchc
span spchl
span spchb
span spchi
span spchf
li ynRric
li YMXe
div duf3-46
a sbfblt
div tophf
div gws-output-pages-elements-homepage_additional_languages__als
div SIvCob
button Mses6b
ul dEjpnf
div YUIDDb
div lb

Answer 2

But how can I find all the elements?

CSS selector support * wildcard so you might ask for all elements using it

driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("*")

See answers in What does an asterisk (*) do in a CSS selector? if you want to know more about * in CSS selector.