Q: Is there a way to find an element by attributes in Python Selenium? I got a html snippet like this:
<input type="text" node-type="searchInput" autocomplete="off" value="" class="W_input" name="14235541231062">

The only unique identity of this element in the html is the attribute node-type="searchInput",so I want to locate it by using some method of Python selenium sort of like this:
search_elem = driver.find_element_by_xxx("node-type","searchInput") # maybe?

I have checked the selenium(python) document for locating elems  but didn't get a clue of how to locate this elem by the node-type attr. Is there a explicit way to locate this elem in python selenium?

A: You can get it by xpath and check the node-type attribute value:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@node-type="searchInput"]')


A: Here's a method you could use:
save_items = []

for item in driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("input"):
    # Get class
    item_class = item.get_attribute("class")

    # Get name:
    item_name = item.get_attribute("name")

    # And so on...


    # Check for a match
    if item_class == "W_input" and item_name == "14235541231062":
        # Do your operation (or add to a list)
        save_items.append(item)



A: Even though the question is old but it's still very relevant I believe.
You may be able to use simple css selector and the syntax is standard javascript similar to jquery or native browser support.
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span.className[attrName="attrValue"]')
Example:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span.blueColor[shape="circle"]')
