How Use Re.sub To Convert Selenium String To An Integer

I am really desperate his last days to convert my string numbers value to a integer, so i try this : Snapshot: Code trials: follower_count = int(browser.find_element_by_xpath('/ht

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 can can use sub() from re to replace the , character from the text 1,961 first and then invoke int() as follows:

• Code Block:

  # follower_count = int(browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/section/main/div/header/section/ul/li[2]/a/span').text)
  count = "1,961"import re
  print(int(re.sub(',', '', count)))
  print(type(int(re.sub(',', '', count))))
  

• Console Output:

  1961
  <class'int'>
  

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This usecase

Effectively, your line of code will be:

follower_count = int(re.sub(',', '', browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/section/main/div/header/section/ul/li[2]/a/span').text))

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References

You can find a relevant detailed discussion in:

• Convert a scraped string containing comma into an integer using Python

Solution 2:

The TypeError here is because you have converted follower_count into an integer and then passed it to re.sub that accept only string or bytes-like object. You should check the output of browser.find_element_by_xpat and see if it's a string. If it is, you should not encounter any error. If it's a list or an object from selenium you might have to do a little bit more than just pass follower_count to re.sub

follower_count = browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/section/main/div/header/section/ul/li[2]/a/span').text
convert_follower_count = int(re.sub('[^0-9]','', follower_count))