yeah, there are similar question, but upon reading through them I weren't able to find a solution for my problem.
Following situation: I'm tryin to click the "reply" button on "https://charleston.craigslist.org/ctd/d/charleston-2018-nissan-sentra-sedan-4d/7108660907.html" and after executing this click a popups shows up where I shall click another button, but let's start with the first button as the "reply" click itself is very trouble-making.
The reply button has the following X-Path:
'/html/body/section/section/header/div[2]/div/button'
speaking of which the source code is:
<button role="button" class="reply-button js-only" data-href="/__SERVICE_ID__/chs/ctd/7108660907">
reply
</button>
(see code on mentioned website).
However, my approach with Selenium (Python) doesn't work:
reply_button = '/html/body/section/section/header/div[2]/div/button'
driver.get('https://charleston.craigslist.org/ctd/d/charleston-2018-nissan-sentra-sedan-4d/7108660907.html')
driver.find_element_by_xpath(reply_button).click()
Everytime I tried, the website just loads up properly (even with implementing time.sleep(x)) and tries to click the button, but this fails and the website just refreshes - my guess is that they either regocnize the browser being Selenium-controlled, that the click isn't legitimate or that I didn't catch anything right in my code.. Anyone able to help out?
Btw I already tried searching "by_class_name", that didn't work either.
This Xpath: '/html/body/section/section/header/div[2]/div/button' is like when you get a map with instructions like step forward until you see a car then turn left 30° then step forward until you see a tree then hop twice then go to the second house to your right. Not safe to use, avoid such paths. If the page layout changes, your path may become invalid.
Try this:
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#class="reply-button js-only"]')
button.click()
Clicking the button opens a "show phone number" popup (which may be located by driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#class="show-phone"]')).
Explanation:
If you want proper Xpath, inspect what you want to interact with. The button you want to click is this:
<button role="button" class="reply-button js-only" data-href="/__SERVICE_ID__/chs/ctd/7108660907">
reply
</button>
You can see that it has no "id" tag but it is a button with a specific class. You may copy right away the "class" part -> class="reply-button js-only"
Now you can check if is it unique enough:
driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[#class="reply-button js-only"]')
If "find elements" returns a single result, usually you should be OK. You can see that all I did is that I pasted the class inside this: driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[# and this ]').
If you need more accuracy, you can specify that it is a button:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[#class="reply-button js-only"]')
Or it is the direct child of the element with class: class="actions-combo", so a more safe path would be:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#class="actions-combo"]/button[#class="reply-button js-only"]')
This pattern works for all webelement attributes, not just for classes. You could use the role="button" too for more filtering. Look up for Xpath, it is a pretty neat stuff.
Related
I am automating a process using Selenium and python. Right now, I am trying to click on a button in a webpage (sorry I cannot share the link, since it requires credential to login), but there is no way my code can find this button element. I have tried every selector (by id, css selector, xpath, etc.) and done a lot of googling, but no success.
Here is the source content from the web page:
<button onclick="javascript: switchTabs('public');" aria-selected="false" itemcount="-1" type="button" title="Public Reports" dontactassubmit="false" id="public" aria-label="" class="col-xs-12 text-left list-group-item tabbing_class active"> Public Reports </button>
I also added a sleep command before this to make sure the page is fully loaded, but it does not work.
Can anyone help how to select this onclick button?
Please let me know if you need more info.
Edit: you can take a look at this picture to get more insight (https://ibb.co/cYXWkL0). The yellow arrow indicates the button I want to click on.
The element you trying to click is inside an iframe. So, you need to switch driver into the iframe content before accessing elements inside it.
I can't give you a specific code solution since you didn't share a link to that page, even not all that HTML block. You can see solutions for similar questions here or enter link description here. More results can be found with google search
So I am trying to write a code to automatically join a google meet. So I need to sign into my google account, which runs all fine but when I get to "Verify that it's you" (image 1), and I try to use driver.get it takes me back to the original sign-in page (image 2)
How can I click on the "Continue" button without using driver.get/without getting taken back to the original sign-in page. I know that all I have to do is click on the "Continue" because when I do it manually it works perfectly. Pressing "Tab" and then "Enter" would also work, but it seems you need to use driver.get as well. Thank you
so i think you don't understand driver.get() usage. it is used only to make the browser browse to a specific link which you can specify before hand. what you have to do here is open the google meet page manually and go to your required page where you want to click the button. right click on the button and click on inspect. then go to the higlighted code and locate the button you want and right click on copy and select xpath from the list. now coming to your code.
add this line:
element=driver.find_element_by_xpath('_xpath')
element.click()
replace _xpath with the long string you copied (which is the xpath of the button you want to click).
this is the way to click on buttons or text boxes or anything you name it in selenium.
**beware of one thing. don't make your code click immediately. if the page does not fully load and the click is made then the 1st line will throw an element not found error. put some kind of delay till page loads or use a while loop and exception handling to wait till the element is found
This one should work for you
userName = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[#name='username']")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", userName)
I am trying to automate some actions on a website. My script fills out a form and clicks post and then the website essentially asks if you are sure you want to post and you need to click the post button a second time. The problem is, while the old post button is no longer visible to the user, Selenium can only find the old post button and insists that the new post button does not exist.
Here is what the HTML looks like for the new post button.
<span id="__w2__w927tml1_submit_question_anon">
<a class="modal_cancel modal action" href="#"
id="__w2__w927tml1_add_original">Ask Original Question</a>
</span>
I have tried every different locator I can think of but it always locates the old post button. The closest I've got is locating the parent class shown above, but when trying to parse through its children it says there are none. I am at a loss for what to do here. Thanks for your help.
I have a button that when I click it I will get a sort of a dropdown list. My problem is that I want to click one of the options in this dropdown list but I don't see how to refer to it.
I have tried to act as if this was a list box and I used the "Select" module but I failed with exceptions. My purpose is to be able to refer to any of the options in this dropdown list. Could it be that the HTML code is missing a unique href value ?
<input name="Port 19" value="Uplink" class="ExtendedButton" onclick="SelectFrame('Uplink-200')" id="Port-19" style="width: 84px; display: inline;" type="button">
<script>writeUplinkDropDown()</script>
<div class="dropdown-content">
200G
100G #1
100G #2
</div>
First thing you will need to do is open the dropdown menu. Once the menu is open you can click on any of those options you posted by using any of the following selector examples:
driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('a[onclick="SelectFrame(\"Uplink-200\")"]')
driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('a[onclick="SelectFrame(\"Port-19\")"]')
driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('a[onclick="SelectFrame(\"Port-20\")"]')
Selenium's Select class only works with native <select> elements. Because you have implemented a dropdown with custom HTML, you won't be able to use it.
Instead, in order to select one of the options in your custom dropdown, you'll need to perform each of the actions that a real user would:
clicking the button that opens the dropdown, then
clicking the link for the desired option.
Note: When searching for elements on a page, always try to use the same criteria that a real user would. A real user would look for a link with some meaningful text, e.g., "200G"; they would not go scouring the source code looking for a particular onclick attribute. (What's more, the onclick attribute is a part of the implementation of the page, not the interface, and shouldn't be relied upon as such, as it could change at any time.)
1. Using Selenium
Selenium doesn't provide an explicit method for finding buttons, but you can use CSS or XPath to do that:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[type='button'][value='Uplink']")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[#type = 'button'][#value = 'Uplink']")
To find links, Selenium conveniently provides find_element_by_link_text():
driver.find_element_by_link_text("200G").click()
driver.find_element_by_link_text("100G #1").click()
driver.find_element_by_link_text("100G #2").click()
2. Using Capybara (which uses Selenium)
Bare Selenium can be fickle. The link may not yet be in the DOM. Or it may not yet be visible.
capybara-py addresses these problems transparently:
page.click_button("Uplink")
page.click_link("200G")
page.click_link("100G #1")
page.click_link("100G #2")
I'm attempting to make a DeviantART Llamabot for a friend as my first Selenium project with Python 3. I have the bot 99% working except for being able to find the "give llama" button.
The problem seems to be that the menu the button appears under is a popup and I can't just right click and select "copy css selector" in Firefox. As soon as I inspect the element for the give menu the menu closes and the html changes.
I've managed to take a screen shot of a random sample page of the code so I can even see what's there. I've tried learning how CSS selectors work from scratch myself and I've managed to find every nested element EXCEPT the actual items in the list. I've tried looking for Nth child and using the ">" operator. I've attempted searching by class name, name, Xpath, link name, partial link name, nothing has worked.
I've read about this problem inspecting popup elements elsewhere and the suggestions are effectively to write an HTML parser or something to copy the entire html code as it changes and then select it from your copy. I'm not going to do that for this project. It's entirely too much work unless I absolutely have to for some reason.
Honestly at this point I don't even care anymore and I just want someone to outright just tell me what to type in so I can finish this project. This is the screenshot I managed to get. I'm looking for the item highlighted in blue.
Since my code was requested for clarification here it is
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
binary = FirefoxBinary('C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe')
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary)
Deviant = browser.get("http://www.deviantart.com/random/deviant")
GiveMenu = browser.find_element_by_css_selector(".i47")
GiveMenu.click()
#GiveLlama = browser.find_element_by_css_selector("")`
Everything except the last line works which is why the last line is commented out until I can figure out what to put in there. No matter what I've tried, including the examples provided by the people answering this question so far, I either get a no such element error or an illegal syntax error.
You can use the xpath selector, in chrome you can use rigth click and click on copy > copy Xpath, or the element selected on your inspector is "div.popup2 .blockmenu a.f.givellama"
You should click the "Give" button first, when the pop up dialog opens, inspect the "Give a Llama Badge" element and identify the xpath. Here is a screen shot.
screen shot to locate "Give a Llama Badge" button
You can find that, the xpath to locate "Give a Llama Badge" button(Should click the Give button first to locate this element).
//a[#class='f givellama']
The xpath to locate "Give button"
//a[#href='#give-give-give']/span[text()='Give']
As you pointed out, when the popup dialog opens, if you try to test the xpath in the browser console via "Firepath" or others, when you type "Enter" or click the left mouse, the popup windows is closed. But don't worry about this, since you already identified the xpath locator, you can debug it in your scripts.