Convert A Scraped String Containing Comma Into An Integer Using Python

Im trying to scrape the number of followers count with selenium but it clearly identify the 'ValueError' as a number: Snapshot: Code trials: follower_count =int(browser.find_eleme

Solution 1:

The extracted text i.e. 1,961 contains a , character in between. So you won't be able to invoke int() directly on it.

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Solution

You need to replace() the , character from the text 1,961 first and then invoke int() as follows:

• Code Block:

  # count = browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div/div/div/div[2]/main/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/div/div[5]/div[2]/a/span[1]/span').text
  count = "1,961"print(int(count.replace(",","")))
  print(type(int(count.replace(",",""))))
  

• Console Output:

  1961
  <class'int'>
  

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This usecase

Effectively, your line of code will be:

follower_count =int(browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div/div/div/div[2]/main/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/div/div[5]/div[2]/a/span[1]/span').text.replace(",",""))
following_count = int(browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div/div/div/div[2]/main/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/div/div[5]/div[1]/a/span[1]/span').text.replace(",",""))

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References

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• How use re.sub to convert selenium string to an Integer