Selenium/Python - hover and click on element - python

I'm running into an issue with my Selenium script on Python. In the javascript web application that I'm interacting with, an element I need to click doesn't exist until I hover over it. I've looked and found various answers on how to hover, but the sequence needs to include the clicking of a new element during the hover event. Here is the code I am currently working with. The element is renamed from add to add1 when a hover occurs, once add1 exists; I should be able to click/send.keys to execute said element.
...
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
...
add = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('input.add')
Hover = ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(add)
Hover.perform()
SearchButton = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('input.add1')
SearchButton.click()
I'm new with Python and with programming in general, but I can't figure out how to sequence this correctly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Following had worked for me, please give a try:
add = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('input.add')
SearchButton = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('input.add1')
Hover = ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(add).move_to_element(SearchButton)
Hover.click().build().perform()
I'm not sure about above Python code. But you can use above logic.

here another useful link
How to mouseover in python Webdriver
#TDHM
you should mention this below line to make it works
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
thank you

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I am giving this answer, cause none of the answer's are really using Explicit waits with ID attribute :
driver.maximize_window()
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Imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
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browser.get(url)
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time.sleep(5)
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I am trying to automate a task which can save me thousands of clicks.
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I installed Firefox drivers and did some progress but I am stuck for a long time. I finally gave up, opened a Stack Overflow account and wanted to bring this problem into this helpful medium.
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There I would like to click on the years.
a screenshot of the years that I can't click using Selenium
As an example, I get the element related to year 2004.
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//div[#data-catid='52']/descendant-or-self::*/div[#class='years']/child::a
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Send keys without specifying element in python selenium webdriver

I have a page whose source code is not available, but there is a input box where cursor is blinking.
Can i write something into the text box without finding the element. I mean, some way where send key can automatically look for focused inputbox and type input to it.
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Solved it
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actions = ActionChains(self.driver)
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from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
actions = ActionChains(self.driver)
actions.send_keys('dummydata')
actions.perform()
just use:
actions = ActionChains(driver)
I don't have comment rights that's why I put this as answer
Edit: Added this enhancement as a comment on the original answer.
This worked for me:
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Using the Python version of Selenium, is it possible to click some element in the DOM and to specify the coordinates where you want to click it?
The Java version has the method clickAt, which actually does exactly what I am looking for, but can't find the equivalent in Python.
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from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
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But sometimes Action chain does not finds the DOM element. Hence better option to use execute scipt in following way:
button_xpath = '//xapth...'
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def click_at(self,locator,coordString):
"""
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causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call
waitForPageToLoad.
'locator' is an element locator
'coordString' is specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.
"""
self.do_command("clickAt", [locator,coordString,])
def double_click_at(self,locator,coordString):
"""
Doubleclicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the action
causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call
waitForPageToLoad.
'locator' is an element locator
'coordString' is specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.
"""
self.do_command("doubleClickAt", [locator,coordString,])
They appear in the selenium object and here is their online API documentation.

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