I am using Selenium to navigate a webpage. To analyze the elements and data, I use BeautifulSoup because of the excellent options they give, including searching with regex.
So now I have an element located in BeautifulSoup. I want to select it in Selenium.
I figured I could somehow pass a XPath or CSS selector from the BeautifulSoup element to the Selenium element.
Is there a direct way of going from a BeautifulSoup element to Selenium element?
These are completely different tools that, in general, cannot be considered alternatives, though they somewhat cross on the "Locating Elements" front. The located elements though are very different - one is a Tag instance in BeautifulSoup and the other one is a webdriver WebElement instance that can actually be interacted with it is "live".
Both tools support CSS selectors. The support is quite different, but if you don't go in depth with things like multiple attribute checks (a[class*=test1][class^=test] - not gonna work in BeautifulSoup, for instance), nth-child, nth-of-type, going sideways with + etc, you can assume things are gonna work on both ends.
Please add examples of the elements you want to correlate and we can work through them.
Send element from BeautifulSoup to Selenium