Listing select option values with Selenium and Python

Question

I have the following HTML code

<select name="countries" class_id="countries">
    <option value="-1">--SELECT COUNTRY--</option>
    <option value="459">New Zealand</option>
    <option value="100">USA</option>
    <option value="300">UK</option>
</select>

I am trying to get a list of the option values (like 459, 100, etc, not the text) using Selenium.

At the moment I have the following Python code

from selenium import webdriver

def country_values(website_url):
    browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    browser.get(website_url)
    html_code=browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//select[@name='countries']")[0].get_attribute("innerHTML")
    return html_code

As you can see the code returns pure HTML, which I am parsing with HTMLParser library. Is there any way to get the option values just using Selenium? In other words, without having to parse the result from Selenium?

Answer 1

check it out, here is how i did it before i knew what the Select Module did

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
#code to get you to the page

select_box = browser.find_element_by_name("countries") 
# if your select_box has a name.. why use xpath?..... 
# this step could use either xpath or name, but name is sooo much easier.

options = [x for x in select_box.find_elements_by_tag_name("option")]
# this part is cool, because it searches the elements contained inside of select_box 
# and then adds them to the list options if they have the tag name "options"

for element in options:
    print(element.get_attribute("value"))
    # or append to list or whatever you want here

outputs like this

-1
459
100
300