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Issue with selenium.webdriver click function using find_elements(By.XPATH, [duplicate]

I'd like to click the button 'Annual' at a page that is by default set on 'Quarterly'. There are two links that are basically called the same, except that one has data-ptype="Annual" so I tryed to copy the xpath to click the button (also tried other options but none did work).
However, I get the AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click'. I read a lot of similar posts, but wasn't able to fix my problem.. so I assume that javascript event must be called/clicked/performed somehow differnt.. idk Im stuck
from selenium import webdriver
link = 'https://www.investing.com/equities/apple-computer-inc-balance-sheet'
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(link)
elm = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]").click()
The html is the following:
<a class="newBtn toggleButton LightGray" href="javascript:void(0);" data-type="rf-type-button" data-ptype="Annual" data-pid="6408" data-rtype="BAL">..</a>

you need to use find_element_by_xpath not find_elements_by_xpath that return a list
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]").click()
Also i think is better to use Waits for example.
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options)
path = "/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]"
try:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, path)))
element.click()
finally:
driver.quit()

I would still suggest you to go with linkText over XPATH. Reason this xpath : /html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1] is quite absolute and can be failed if there is one more div added or removed from HTML. Whereas chances of changing the link Text is very minimal.
So, Instead of this code :
elm = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]").click()
try this code :
annual_link = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Annual')
annual_link.click()
and yes #Druta is right, use find_element for one web element and find_elements for list of web element. and it is always good to have explicit wait.
Create instance of explicit wait like this :
wait = WebDriverWait(driver,20)
and use the wait reference like this :
wait.until(EC.elementToBeClickable(By.LINK_TEXT, 'Annual'))
UPDATE:
from selenium import webdriver
link = 'https://www.investing.com/equities/apple-computer-inc-balance-sheet'
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver,40)
driver.get(link)
driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, 200)")
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, 'Annual')))
annual_link = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Annual')
annual_link.click()
print(annual_link.text)
make sure to import these :
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

As per the documentation find_elements_by_xpath(xpath) returns a List with elements if any was found or else an empty list if not. Python's List have no click() method associated with it. Instead find_element_by_xpath(xpath) method have the click() method associated with it. So you have to use find_element_by_xpath(xpath) method inducing a waiter through WebDriverWait inconjunction with expected_conditions set as element_to_be_clickable(locator) as follows:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[#class='newBtn toggleButton LightGray' and #data-type='rf-type-button']"))).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

Notice that find_elements_by_xpath is plural it returns a list of elements. Not just one. The list can contain none, exactly one, or more elements.
You can for example click the first match with:
driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]")[0].click()
or iterate through the list and click all these elements, or you can use the find_element_by_xpath (which returns a single element, if it can be found):
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]").click()

For me, it was not working, and tried a hell lot of tricks, and none worked. Some people recommended driver.implicitly_wait(10) instead of time.sleep(10) which didn't work. so please try giving time.sleep(10) both above and below the .click() code line, and check if it works or not.

how to resolve python selenium no such element error?

import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.canva.com/q/pro-signup/")
time.sleep(6)
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_class_name('rbV9vo63iaj7sGd7XwS4h'))
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("//iframe[contains(#name, '_hjRemote')]")
It cant find element last line. i tried contains, starts with and indexing but none worked.

Try using different elements such as the xpath or the id. If that fails then you could select the element by the css selector. If that fails then you could always use a lib like pyautogui to physically click on the web element.

There are total of 6 iframes, The elements you are looking, they are inside
iframe[src^='https://www.canva.com/']
this iframe.
so you need to switch to this frame first :
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("iframe[src^='https://www.canva.com/']"))
I would use the below code to click on Sign up with email:
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get("https://www.canva.com/q/pro-signup/")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "iframe[src^='https://www.canva.com/']")))
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Sign up with email']/.."))).click()
Imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
In case you want to have a predefined iframe stored, you could something like this :
remote_vars_frame = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("iframe[id='_hjRemoteVarsFrame']")
driver.switch_to.frame(remote_vars_frame)

You can handle this Exception by directly searching for the element without switching to any iframe as below
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("//iframe[contains(#name, '_hjRemote')]")

selenium chromedriver different values of xpath between terminal and actual driver

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
url = 'https://www.msha.gov/mine-data-retrieval-system'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='chromedriver')
driver.get(url)
#driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="mstr90"]/div[1]/div/div') error
#driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//input') gives 3 while in driver gives 10
I am unable to find element where the input "Search by Mine ID by typing here.." is, the document is fully loaded but it can't locate it. What I want to do is simply pass in an input "0100003" then submit

Iframe is present on your page. Before you interact with inputbox you need to switch on to iframee. Refer below code to resolve your issue.
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
driver.get("https://www.msha.gov/mine-data-retrieval-system")
driver.switch_to.frame("iframe1")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
inputBox = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[#class='mstrmojo-SimpleObjectInputBox-empty']"))).click()
inputBox1 = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[#class='mstrmojo-SimpleObjectInputBox-container mstrmojo-scrollNode']//input")))
inputBox1.send_keys("0100003")
Updated Code to handle dropdown
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div#mstr100,mstrmojo-Popup.mstrmojo.SearchBoxSelector-suggest"))).click()
Note: please add below imports to your solution
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
Output:

The element you are trying to find is inside an iframe, so you will need to switch to that iframe first and then do your find element. Also, it's a best practice to use waits to give pages/elements time to load before a find element timeouts and throws an error.
iframe = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#iframe1')))
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
mine_id = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[#id="mstr90"]/div[1]/div/div')))
Then you need to click this element to make it interactable.
mine_id.click()
Once you click then you need to re-find the input box before sending keys.
mine_id_input = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#mstr90 input')))
mine_id_input.send_keys('0100003')
To select the suggestion displayed:
suggestion = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#mstr100')))
suggestion.click()
if you wanted to continue on interacting outside the iframe after this is done, you will want to switch back out of the iframe like this:
driver.switch_to.default_content()

How to click a button on a website by finding its id

When I run the code, the website loads up fine but then it won't click on the button- an error appears saying the element is not interacterble. What do I need to do to click the button? I am relatively new to this and would be grateful for any help.
I have already tried finding it by id and tag.
page = driver.get("https://kenpreston.co.uk/author/")
element = driver.find_element_by_id('mk-button-31')
element.click()
SOLVED:
I used driver.find_element_by_link_text and this worked fine.

I have checked the website and noticed that mk-button-31 is an id for a div tag and inside it there is an a tag. Try getting the url from the a tag and do another driver.get instead of clicking on it.
Also the whole div tag is not clickable so that is why you are getting this error.

Use sleep from time library to be sure page fully loaded
from time import sleep
page = driver.get("https://kenpreston.co.uk/author/")
sleep(2)
element = driver.find_element_by_id('mk-button-31')
element.click()

Looks like your element is not clickable you need to replace this id selector with the css and need to wait for the element before click on it.
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
page = driver.get("https://kenpreston.co.uk/author/")
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#mk-button-31 span"))
element.click();

Consider adding Explicit Wait to your script as it might be the case the DOM had finished loading and the button you're looking for is still not there.
The classes you're looking for are:
WebDriverWait
expected_conditions
Suggested code change:
#your other imports here
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions
#your other code here
page = driver.get("https://kenpreston.co.uk/author/")
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "mk-button-31")))
element.click()
More information: How to use Selenium to test web applications using AJAX technology

Python Selenium Unable to find an element inside Frameset > Frame

How can I find the highlighted element in the following html structure.
Target element highlighted
This is the code that I'm using.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
browser = webdriver.Edge()
browser.implicitly_wait(5) # seconds
browser.get(url) # aspx page
browser.find_element_by_id("LoginBtn").click()
browser.find_element_by_id("ReportingMenuName").click()
browser.find_element_by_id("EndpointDataExportSubmenuName").click()
browser.find_element_by_id("EndpointDataExportMenuItem").click()
browser.switch_to_default_content()
browser.switch_to.frame(browser.find_element_by_id("main"))
element = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located(\
(By.ID, "ct100_PageBody_OkButton")))
element.click()
When I run the code I get this error when it reaches the last 2 lines of code:
TimeoutException
If I change the last 2 lines of code for this, then I get another error.
browser.find_element_by_id("ct100_PageBody_OkButton").click()
NoSuchElementException: No such element

There are a couple of things you need to consider :
While you access/login to a url Selenium's focus is on the Top Level Browsing Context. So before switching to any frame you don't need to switch_to_default_content(). Hence you can omit the line :
browser.switch_to_default_content()
While you switch to frame through switch_to.frame() induce WebDriverWait with the clause frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it for the frame to be available for switching as follows :
WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.ID,"main")))
Within the frame once you identify the element moving ahead as you are invoking click() so instead of expected_conditions as presence_of_element_located you need to use element_to_be_clickable as follows :
WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[#class='buttontext' and contains(#id,'_PageBody_OkButton')]"))).click()