How to access HTML elements in a nested fashion with Selenium and Python

I’m trying to figure out how to access HTML elements in a nested fashion through Selenium and Python.

For example I have: box = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('tbody') which represents the body of the data I’d like to mine. I’d like to iterate through each row in this body (each row characterized by a <tr> tag) using something like:

for driver.find_element_by_tag_name('tr') in box:

But obviously that’s not possible because box is a Selenium object and is non-iterable.

What’s the best way to do something like this?

>Solution :

An optimum approach would be to construct locator strategies which would traverse from the parent till the descendants as follows:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  for element in driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "tbody tr"):
      print(element.text)
  

• Using XPATH:

  for element in driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//tbody//tr"):
      print(element.text)