How to get attribute value Selenium + Python

Question

I\'m working with Selenium in Python. I would like to get the value of an attribute [\'href\'] and check that it is different from \'#\', if yes
so click on the link if not

Answer 1

To click on the link with text as » you don't need to get the value of an attribute href, rather simply surround the block of code to click() the element in a try-catch block as follows:

while True:
    try :
        WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='pagination']//li/a[@rel='nofollow' and contains(.,'»')]"))).click()
        # do your tasks on this particular page
    except :
        print("No more pages left")
        break
driver.quit()

Answer 2

You could try this,

elems = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[@href]")
e = []
for elem in elems:
    val = elem.get_attribute("href")

    if "#" in val:
        print("found # do nothing")
    else:
        print("click this link ",val)
        // click link
        e.append(elem)
// call click function
e[0].click()