Selenium webdriver: How do I find ALL of an element's attributes?

Question

In the Python Selenium module, once I have a WebElement object I can get the value of any of its attributes with get_attribute():

foo = elem.get_attribute('href') 

If the attribute named 'href' doesn't exist, None is returned.

My question is, how can I get a list of all of the attributes that an element has? There doesn't seem to be a get_attributes() or get_attribute_names() method.

I'm using version 2.44.0 of the Selenium module for Python.

Answer 1

It is not possible using a selenium webdriver API, but you can execute a javascript code to get all attributes:

driver.execute_script('var items = {}; for (index = 0; index < arguments[0].attributes.length; ++index) { items[arguments[0].attributes[index].name] = arguments[0].attributes[index].value }; return items;', element) 

Demo:

>>> from selenium import webdriver >>> from pprint import pprint >>> driver = webdriver.Firefox() >>> driver.get('https://stackoverflow.com') >>>  >>> element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[@class="network-items"]/a') >>> attrs = driver.execute_script('var items = {}; for (index = 0; index < arguments[0].attributes.length; ++index) { items[arguments[0].attributes[index].name] = arguments[0].attributes[index].value }; return items;', element) >>> pprint(attrs) {u'class': u'topbar-icon icon-site-switcher yes-hover js-site-switcher-button js-gps-track',  u'data-gps-track': u'site_switcher.show',  u'href': u'//stackexchange.com',  u'title': u'A list of all 132 Stack Exchange sites'} 

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For completeness sake, an alternative solution would be to get the tag's outerHTML and parse the attributes using an HTML parser. Example (using BeautifulSoup):

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup >>> html = element.get_attribute('outerHTML') >>> attrs = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser').a.attrs >>> pprint(attrs) {u'class': [u'topbar-icon',             u'icon-site-switcher',             u'yes-hover',             u'js-site-switcher-button',             u'js-gps-track'],  u'data-gps-track': u'site_switcher.show',  u'href': u'//stackexchange.com',  u'title': u'A list of all 132 Stack Exchange sites'} 

Answer 2

The following gets a list of all attributes and their (sometimes translated to strings) values for me, using the PhantomJS or Chrome driver at least:

elem.get_property('attributes')[0] 

To just get the names:

x.get_property('attributes')[0].keys()