How to extract text from a web page using selenium and save it as a text file

Question

Can anyone please suggest how can I extract data from a web page and save it to a text/doc file using Selenium?

Answer 1

Hello Isha, you can checkout this code snippet for extracting text from a web element and saving it as a text or doc file:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class ExtractText {

 static WebDriver driver;

 @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
 public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "chrome_driver_path");

  driver = new ChromeDriver();
  driver.manage().window().maximize();
  driver.get("https://www.edureka.co/devops");
  
  String output = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[5]/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div")).getText();
  File DestFile= new File("extractedFilePath");
  FileUtils.writeStringToFile(DestFile, output);
  driver.close();
 }

}

For further understanding, you can refer to the Selenium Course.

Comments

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