find_elements_by_link_text() driver method Selenium Python (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Selenium's Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out - Navigating links using get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as geeksforgeeks, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task. This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_elements_by_link_text() is discussed in this article. This method returns a list with type of elements specified. To grab a single first element, checkout - find_element_by_link_text() driver method – Selenium Python Syntax -

driver.find_elements_by_link_text("link text")

Example - For instance, consider this page source:

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Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using -

login_form = driver.find_elements_by_link_text('Click Here')

How to use driver.find_elements_by_link_text() method in Selenium?

Let's try to practically implement this method and get a element instance for "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/". Let's try to grab Tutorials from navbar. Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_elements_by_link_text method -

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Python program to demonstrate

selenium

import webdriver

from selenium import webdriver

create webdriver object

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

enter keyword to search

keyword = "geeksforgeeks"

get geeksforgeeks.org

driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")

get elements

elements = driver.find_elements_by_link_text("Tutorials")

print complete elements list

print(element)

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Now run using -

Python run.py

First, it will open firefox window with geeksforgeeks, and then select the element and print it on terminal as show below.Browser Output - Terminal Output -