Scrape Text from Any Element with Selenium | Python Tutorial

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Here's how to scrape the text out of an HTML element using Selenium. For this example, the goal is to extract hello world out of this P tag with an ID of get value. To start off, I created some basic Selenium code that creates a driver and goes to the HTML page that I want to scrape from. The next thing I need to do is find the element with the ID of get value. So, to do this, I set val equal to driver.find_element and in the parentheses, I'm looking for an ID of get value. Then, to extract the text from that element, I can do val.text.

[00:00:29]So, for this example, I set text equal to val.text. When I run the code, it's going to open the web page and scrape the text. And as you see here, the value of the text was hello world, so I successfully scraped the text. Like and subscribe for more Python videos.