I have this page and I want to click on the a element that sends an email(the one that is highlighted in the screenshot below
and I have tried to find this element using By.XPATH
email = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[contains(#class, 'email-old-32')]").click()
and By.CLASS_NAME
email = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'email-old-32').click()
and in both situations i'm getting an error no such element, does anyone know what am I doing wrong?
There are several possible thing that may cause this:
You need to wait for element to be loaded and to become clickable. WebDriverWait expected_conditions can be used for that.
If this is your case instead of email = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[contains(#class, 'email-old-32')]").click() try this:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(#class, 'email-old-32')]"))).click()
The element class attribute value can be dynamic. Make sure it is not changing. In case it does - you need to find another, stable locator for that element.
The element can be inside iframe. In this case you will need to switch into the iframe.
Possibly you opened a new tab where the goal element is presented but forget to switch to a new tab.
Related
Using Selenium, I am unable to locate the "email" element on the Udemy website.
Here's what I tried:
browser.get('https://www.udemy.com/join/login-popup/')
browser.implicitly_wait(5)
email = browser.find_element(By.ID, 'email--1')
print(email)
but it gives NoSuchElementException while "email" element isn't even in an iframe, as far as I know.
So, how can I locate this specific element?
In this case, you're probably looking for the element before the page loads.
You should use the WebDriverWait class of Selenium and the condition presence_of_element_located of the expected_conditions, as shown in the example below:
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
browser.get('https://www.udemy.com/join/login-popup/')
timeout = 20 # Number of seconds before timing out.
email = WebDriverWait(browser, timeout).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'email--1')))
email.send_keys("example#email.com")
In the above snippet, Selenium WebDriver waits up to 20 seconds before throwing a TimeoutException, unless it finds the element to return within the above time. WebDriverWait, by default, calls the ExpectedCondition every 500 milliseconds until it returns successfully.
Finally, presence_of_element_located is an expectation for determining whether an element is present on a page's DOM, without necessarily implying that the element is visible. When the element is found, the locator returns the WebElement.
So I'm trying to submit a form but something is either preventing me from accessing the box or I'm using a wrong element but I think I'm using the correct one.
Here is my code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = 'mypath/chromedriver.exe')
driver.maximize_window()
#driver.implicitly_wait(50)
driver.get("https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[#title='Close']"))).click()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="home-body"]/div[1]/div/div[1]/form/label').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="home-body"]/div[1]/div/div[1]/form/label').send_keys('1818437')
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[3]/div[2]/article/section[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]/form/input[2]').click();
What I'm getting on the output is
ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted:
Element ... is
not clickable at point (553, 728). Other element would receive the
click:
(Session info: chrome=93.0.4577.63)
What might be the issue?
Things to noted down in this scenario :-
When you define an explicit waits wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20), you can always use wait reference in the scope. you do not need to create again and again in same class.
Try to avoid absolute xpath /html/body/div[3]/div[2]/article/section[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]/form/input[2], try with relative xpath/xpath axes.
When we try to send keys to some element, in general it should be a input tag, not label
You may have to scroll, may be not in this case but when you scroll manually to interact with elements in UI, same has to automated with Selenium as well.
Also I observed to this webapp that search and input tags are duplicated, so I have used xpath indexing [2] to handle.
Sample code :-
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = 'mypath/chromedriver.exe')
driver.maximize_window()
#driver.implicitly_wait(50)
driver.get("https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[#title='Close']"))).click()
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//input[#name='MCSearch'])[2]"))).send_keys('1818437')
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//input[#name='search'])[2]"))).click()
You can use below xpaths too.
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='sms-search-box']//input[1]").send_keys('1818437')
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='sms-search-box']//input[2]").click()
Xpath you are using is not right. Your xpath for the input field should be like this.
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[#name='MCSearch' and #placeholder='Type Name or U.S. DOT#']").send_keys("1818437")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[#placeholder='Type Name or U.S. DOT#']//following::input[#value='Search']").click();
Tried something like this in python unable I want to click on cross using Selenium.
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[contains(#onclick, 'parent.$WZRK_WR.closeIframe('60005','intentPreview');')]").click()
As per the HTML you have shared to click on the element depicted as X, first you need to induce WebDriverWait while switching to the <iframe> and again induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable and you can use the following solution:
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[#id='wiz-iframe-intent']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[#class='CT_Interstitial']//span[#class='CT_InterstitialClose']"))).click()
Note : You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
Open below URL and Click on Add to Chrome button.
Xpath Helper- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xpath-helper/hgimnogjllphhhkhlmebbmlgjoejdpjl?hl=en
Once plugin added to Chrome. Open your application/webpage and press SHIFT+CTRL+X. Black window will appear on top then you can play with xpath.
If xpath is invalid- then you will get xpath error and if no matches found then it will display NULL.
Note- To check element attribute still you can use F12 that is nothing but default inspect element for all browser then check attribute and create your own xpath and try.
Xpath Syntax
// tagname[#attribute-name=’value1′] and if you are not sure about tag name then no worry you can try with * also
//*[#attribute-name='value1']
You are dealing with an iframe. Follow below steps :
You'll need to switch control to iframe.
Then perform your action (in this case 'Click close').
Switch the control back to default frame.
You can try with this css_selector :
div.CT_InterstitialContents+span.CT_InterstitialClose[onclick]
Xpath would be :
//div[#class='CT_InterstitialContents']/following-sibling::span[#class='CT_InterstitialClose' and onclick]
Try to use this xPath:
//div[#id = 'contentDiv']/div/div/span[#class = 'CT_InterstitialClose']
Code:
close_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[#id = 'contentDiv']/div/div/span[#class = 'CT_InterstitialClose']")))
close_btn.click()
Imports:
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
Explanation:
WebDriverWait is used to wait until element will be clickable, and only then clicks on it. In this example WebDriverWait will wait at least 10 seconds until element will be clickable.
PS: as I see in the screenshot your element is probably in iframe. That means you have to switch to this iframe first, to be able to interact with the elements in it. The code sample for it would be like this:
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH, "XPATH_TO_FRAME")))
# do stuff
close_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[#id = 'contentDiv']/div/div/span[#class = 'CT_InterstitialClose']")))
close_btn.click()
# switch back to default content
driver.switch_to.default_content()
You can write xpath using class name of span. Please refer an example below.
//span[#class='amountCharged']
I can't find a solution how this element cannot be found by using a selenium xpath. Other button on other websites always working just fine. Usually what I would normally do is, just open up a page and inspect the element and I would right click it and copy the xpath. Done.
But this website, www.gsc.com.my (a malaysian cinema booking site). Seems not able to find the button. Is it protected by another security layer?
Lets see the code below,
from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver_path = './chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver_path)
driver.get('https://www.gsc.com.my')
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[#id="btnNext"]""").click()
The error Message:
no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[#id="btnNext"]"}
Button is located inside an iframe, so you need to switch to that frame before clicking the button:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver.switch_to.frame('getQuickFilter_ctrl_ifrBox')
wait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "btnNext"))).click()
Because there are two elements with id btnNext, you'll have to specify which of them using an index, 1 for the first, 2 for the second.
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[#id="btnNext"][1]""").click()
You can try with this css selector :
div.container input#btnNext
Note that you will need to switch to iframe first , cause the check button is in a iframe.
For switching to iframe :
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_id("getQuickFilter_ctrl_ifrBox"))
and for clicking on check Button
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
check_button = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.container input#btnNext")))
check_button.click()
I am working with this code code:
I am trying to find text "Branch Selection" within a web page to click on it.
So I do this:
driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Branch Selection')]").click()
It doesn't throw an error, but the click doesn't happen. What am I doing wrong?
If it clicks but nothing happens, first try adding a sleep like sleep(5) to help debug before clicking to see if its because Selenium thought the page loaded when it actually didn't finish loading. If you can click after sleep of 5 seconds then you need to use WebDriverWait and EC as #DebanjanB had shown. In worst case scenario you'll have to use a sleep in your code but try to get the sleep to as short as possible.
Otherwise you might have multiple elements on the page with Branch Selection text such as in the meta tags. Try using XPATH example below to isolate the XPATH look up:
"//button[.//*[contains(text(), 'Branch Selection')]]"
or if there's more than one phrase on page containing the text, use following to select exact text
"//button[.//*[text()='Branch Selection']"
This selects the button element that has a child element with the text you're looking for. More XPATH details here: https://devhints.io/xpath
As per the HTML provided to click on the element with text as Branch Selection you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable as follows :
CSS_SELECTOR :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# lines of code
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.item.item-block.item-md div.input-wrapper>ion-label.label.label-md[id^=lbl-]"))).click()
XPATH :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# lines of code
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[#class='item item-block item-md']//div[#class='input-wrapper']/ion-label[#class='label label-md' and starts-with(#id,'lbl-') and contains(.,'Branch Selection')]"))).click()