find_element_by_link_text() driver method - Selenium Python
Last Updated :
12 Jul, 2025
Selenium's Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provide 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_element(By.LINK_TEXT, ) is discussed in this article. With this strategy, the first element with the link text value matching the location will be returned. If no element has a matching link text attribute, a NoSuchElementException will be raised.
Syntax -
driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "Text of Link")
Example -
For instance, consider this page source:
HTML
<html>
<body>
<p>Are you sure you want to do this?</p>
<a href="continue.html">Continue</a>
<a href="cancel.html">Cancel</a>
</body>
<html>
Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using -
login_form = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, 'Continue')
How to use driver.find_element(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 search form input using its link text "Tutorials".
Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_element(By.LINK_TEXT) method -
Python3
# Python program to demonstrate
# selenium
# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# enter keyword to search
keyword = "geeksforgeeks"
# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")
# get element
element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "Tutorials")
# print complete element
print(element)
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 -
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