I am trying to find news articles related to different web searches within a custom time frame. If someone knows a better way to do this than with selenium then please do tell. I tried to use API's but they are all expensive.
My Code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r".\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
cookie_button = driver.find_element_by_id('L2AGLb')
cookie_button.click()
search_bar = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
search_bar.clear()
search_bar.send_keys("Taylor Swift")
search_bar.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
news_button = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[data-hveid="CAEQAw"]')
news_button.click()
tools_button = driver.find_element_by_id('hdtb-tls')
tools_button.click()
recent_button = driver.find_element_by_class_name('KTBKoe')
recent_button.click()
custom_range_button = dashboards_button = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('g-menu-item')[6]
custom_range_button.click()
driver.close()
I am trying to click this button:
I have tried to select, the span, all parent divs and now the g-menu-item itself, in every case I have received the error:
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable
I understand this can happen when the element is not visible or can not be clicked but I also tried adding in sleep(2) between each operation, and I can see in the browser that selenium opens that it gets to the point in the image I have sent and then can't find the custom range button ??
In short:
Do you know how I can click this custom range button,
Or do you know how to scrape a lot of news articles from specific dates (without expensive API's)
Those g-menu are special type of tag,
you can locate them using :
//*[name()='g-menu-item']
this xpath will point to all the nodes.
further, I see that you are interested in 6th item.
(//*[name()='g-menu-item'])[6]
in code :
custom_range_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//*[name()='g-menu-item'])[6]")
custom_range_button.click()
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I'm using selenium to get some information from a site, but the links that I need to click on require double clicking. Here's the code (I've included an attachment of the image of the HTML)
PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\msedgedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Edge(PATH)
action = ActionChains(driver)
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
frame = search_by_XPATH('//[#id="frmMain"]/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/div[2]').get_attribute('id').replace("_Div","_Frame")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.ID, frame)))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.ID,"fraTree_Frame")))
rows = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,'//*[#id="ctl00_treChart_RadTreeView"]/ul/li/div/span[2]')
for row in rows:
# row.click()
action.double_click(row).perform()
sleep(1)
I'm accessing different pages to get the links, and although each page has the same content the "id" of the frame changes with each new page I access. So that's why I use the 'get_attribute' function to get the id of the frame of the page.
I'm using action chains right now to perform the double click, but every time I do I get the stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document error. I know it's not an issue with the XPATH I'm using to access the element because I can perform a element.click() function on it just fine and the element receives the click. Nothing changes after the first click except the element gets highlighted. The element's xpath doesn't change and its still on the page. I also tried doing the action.click().perform() on the element but that produces the same error.
I've tried clicking on other parts of the element that could receive the click (the div, the span2,etc) but I always get the error. The 'span2' is the part that holds the text of the link (although its not an 'a' tag so its not really a link in that sense.)
I don't understand why the element would be able to receive the click for the .click() function but then be unable to receive the double click. I'm using the double_click() function on another element previously in my code and that works as expected.
I'm kinda of a newbie in Selenium, started learning it for my job some time ago. Right now I'm working with a code that will open the browser, enter the specified website, put the products ID in the search box, search, and them open it. Once it opens the product, it needs to extract its name and price and write it in a CSV file. I'm kinda struggling with it a bit.
The main problem right now is that Selenium is unable to open the product after searching it. I've tried by ID, name and class and it still didn't work.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import csv
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.madeiramadeira.com.br/")
assert "Madeira" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_id("input-autocomplete")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("525119")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
product_link = driver.find_element_by_id('variant-url').click()
The error I get is usually this:
NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: [id="variant-url"]
There are multiple elements with the id="variant-url", So you could use the index to click on the desired element, Also you need to handle I think the cookie pop-Up. Check the below code, hope it will help
#Disable the notifications window which is displayed on the page
option = Options()
option.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"Driver_Path",chrome_options=option)
driver.get("https://www.madeiramadeira.com.br/")
assert "Madeira" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_id("input-autocomplete")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("525119")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
#Clicked on the cookie popup button
accept= driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[#id='lgpd-button-agree']")
accept.click()
OR with explicitWait
accept=WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[#id='lgpd-button-agree']")))
accept.click()
#Here uses the XPath with the index like [1][2] to click on the specific element
product_link = driver.find_element_by_xpath("((//a[#id='variant-url'])[1])")
product_link.click()
OR with explicitWait
product_link=WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"((//a[#id='variant-url'])[1])")))
product_link.click()
I used to get this error all the time when starting. The problem is that there are probably multiple elements with the same ID "variant-url". There are two ways you can fix this
By using "driver.find_elementS_by_id"
product_links = driver.find_elements_by_id('variant-url')
product_links[2].click()
This will create an index off all the elements with id 'variant-url' then click the index of 2. This works but it is annoying to find the correct index of the button you want to click and also takes a long time if there are many elements with the same ID.
By using Xpaths or CSS selectors
This way is a lot easier as each element has a specific Xpath of Selector. It will look like this.
product_link = driver.get_element_by_xpath("XPATH GOES HERE").click()
To get an Xpath or selector 1. go into developer mode on your browser by inspecting the element 2. right click the element in the F12 menu 3. hover over copy 4. move to copy Xpath and click on it.
Hope this helps you :D
I am very new to web scraping, so I still have lots of trouble. Currently, I am trying to web scrape from https://www.enterprisetrucks.com/truckrental/en_US.html by setting the pickup time by running this code:
pickupTime = d.find_element_by_id('fldPickuptime_msdd')
pickupTime.click();
select = Select(d.find_element_by_id('fldPickuptime'))
select.select_by_value('20:00')
But I get the error saying that the element is not currently visible and may not be manipulated.
The dropdown which is present is not of the Select type, so you cannot use the Select method here. You need to click on the time using the xpath of that element directly.
You can use the xpath:
pickupTime = d.find_element_by_id("fldPickuptime_msdd")
pickupTime.click();
selectTime = d.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id='fldPickuptime_msdd']//span[text()='8:00 PM']")
selectTime.click();
Code for JavaScriptExecutor Click:
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("Enter the xpath here")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)
I'm trying to use Selenium to create a new message in my mailbox. I have a problem with finding napisz (en: 'write') button on my e-mail website. I tried to use driver.find_element_by_link_text but it doesn't work. I've managed to go workaround this problem using xpath but I'm very curious why the first method fails.
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('https://profil.wp.pl/login.html?zaloguj=poczta&url=https://poczta.wp.pl/profil/')
elem_login = browser.find_element_by_name('login_username')
elem_login.send_keys('stack_scraper_wp#wp.pl')
elem_password = browser.find_element_by_name('password')
elem_password.send_keys('thankyouforhelp')
elem_zaloguj_button = browser.find_element_by_id('btnSubmit')
elem_zaloguj_button.click()
browser.get('https://poczta.wp.pl/d635/indexgwt.html#start')
elem_napisz_button = browser.find_element_by_link_text('napisz')
elem_napisz_button.click()
EDIT: I've tried to used same xpath today but it failed. Is it possible that it's somehow dynamic causing the problem?
.find_element_by_link_text() looks for a elements only. In your case, this is the button element and cannot be located using this locator.
I am trying to retrieve all possible lists from this website
Model will only open when year is selected. Similarly Make will only open when Model is selected. I want to store all combination of Year, Model and Make for learning purpose.
However I am not able to click year field only. It seems it is hidden and without this I can't go ahead with rest of code.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.osram-americas.com/en-us/applications/automotive-lighting-systems/Pages/lrgmain.aspx")
# Switch to new window opened
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[-1])
# Close the new window
driver.close()
# Switch back to original browser (first window)
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])
el = driver.find_element_by_id('sbToggle_27562807')
el.click()
It gives error :-
Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"sbToggle_27562807"}
Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"sbToggle_27562807"}
year element is not hidden, actually your locator to locate element using find_element_by_id('sbToggle_27562807') is not correct. In this element id attribute value is dynamically changing that's why you're unable to locate this element.
Instead of id locator you should try using some different locator. I would suggest, for better way try using find_element_by_css_selector() as below :-
el = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div#fldYear a.sbToggle")
el.click()
Use this CSS selector to get to the arrow pointing downwards on the select year dropdown
"div[id='fldYear'] > div[class='sbHolder'] > a[class='sbToggle']"
or this xpath
"//div[#id='fldYear']/div[#class='sbHolder']/a[#class='sbToggle']"
Click on this to webelement to get the options
The element IDs change on each reload of the page, you'll have to find a different way to find the dropdown.
You can always find the <a> link with the "-- Select Year --" text, for example.