How to get the text of an element using selenium in python?

Question

Python

Hello everyone,
I am writing a parser for issuing google in python using selenium.
I need to parse JSON like this:

{"cl":12,"cr":3,"id":"JAoZEfikv3d7yM:","isu":"moistimidtran.blogspot.com","ity":"jpg","oh":334,"ou ":" farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/2594001090_b5b9fb0ef6.jpg ","ow":500,"pt":"moistimidtran: people walking down the street","rid":"Hu_70STTJA3k4M","ru": " moistimidtran.blogspot.com/2010/11/people-walking-... ","s":"people walking down the street","th":183,"tu":" https://encrypted-tbn1 .gstatic.com/images?q\u003dt... ","tw":275}

I select all such elements with:
e = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('rg_meta')
Then I run through the list of all found and display the text:

for img in imgs:
    print img.text

but only empty lines are output.
Tried adding .encode('utf-8') after text but that didn't help.
Has anyone encountered this problem and knows how to overcome it? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

import ast
from selenium import webdriver

wd = webdriver.Firefox()
wd.get('https://goo.gl/knrjOl')
all_pics = wd.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='rg_meta']")
try:
    for pic in all_pics:
        a = ast.literal_eval(wd.execute_script("return arguments[0].innerHTML", pic))
        if "ou" in a.keys():
            print a["ou"]
finally:
    wd.close()
    wd.quit()

Answer 2

I don't know which one is in python api. In java it looks like this:
upd:
look here - yizeng.me/2014/04/08/get-text-from-hidden-elements...