Already try by xpath, class_name, name, tag_name, everything! but cannot find this element, the html code llok like this.
<button class ="btn btn-submit" type="submit" class="btn btn-submit" name="submitBtn">Crear cuenta</button>
I don't know why can't find the element, here an example of my code triying to find the element
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id='app']/div/footer/button").click()
As the web site you passed has a load screen the element you want to grab is not available to interaction.
For that you can use the selenium web driver Expected Conditions.
Here an use example on how to use.
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
...
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "dtListaEntidade")))
# do your stuff with elements
Im my example the element I want to grab is the dtListaEntidade.
I'm telling the webdriver to wait the present of that element for
10 ms
check if the element is available
do 1. again
This waits up to 10 seconds before throwing a TimeoutException unless it finds the element to return within 10 seconds.
WebDriverWait by default calls the ExpectedCondition every 500 milliseconds until it returns successfully.
Here is the documentation from selenium docs waits
Related
I am currently trying to automate a data entry process. Every time I refresh the page the ID tags change and make it impossible. I read that I can use CSS selectors or a possible xpath using tags that don't change. It seems that only the ID tags are the problem.
Below is the HTML code for the button. Every time i try and use the CSS selector i got a no such element exception. I think I am doing it wrong. Please help.
<button type="button" class="dark button secondary" data-automation-id=
"btn-footer-save" data-dojo-attach-event="onclick:saveAndStayPressed"
data-qbo-bind="visible:shouldShowSaveAndStayButton" style>Save</button>
Try this:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(),'Save')]"))).click()
The element gets wrapped in a WebDriverWait until it is interactable, in this case clickable
I am trying out Selenium for the first time so I apologize if there is an obvious mistake or problem with my code.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://youtube.com')
searchBox = driver.find_element_by_id('search')
searchBox.send_keys('Programming')
searchButton = driver.find_element_by_id('search-icon-legacy')
searchButton.click()
So I tried this and it loads the page fine but, it does not input any characters into the searchBox (I quadruple checked that the id was correct - copied it directly from the inspector).
NOTE:
My internet is really REALLY slow and it takes YouTube approx. 20 seconds to fully load, so I thought that was an issue so I tried;
...
driver.get('https://youtube.com')
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
searchBox = driver.find_element_by_id('search')
...
But this did not work either.
I did use XPATH instead of finding it by element ID at the start and that did not work.
I checked and copied the XPATHs and IDs directly from the inspector and nothing so far has inputted anything into the textbox.
What could be the problem? (1)
and does the webdriver wait for the page to load/find the element before doing anything after it being initialized with the driver.get('websiteAddress')? (2)
NOTE: I double checked that I was selecting the right element as well.
To send keys to the input tag with id = search. We use webdriver waits to allow the element to be usable after driver.get so the page loads correctly.
driver.get('https://youtube.com')
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[#id='search']"))).send_keys("Programming")
Import
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
If you don't know the waiting time:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
delay = 40
WebDriverWait(driver, delay).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//form[#role='form']//input[#id='username']")))
Then it just waits on the element, for as log as delay is, but will continue as soon as the element is found, that the best way to wait on slow connections.
To relate elements more easily you can use ChroPath, it is an extension for google chrome / edge that allows you to see the path of an element, through cssSelector, Abs XPath, Rel XPath and the tag name, so when your code is not working you can try these other ways. Particularly this extension helps me a lot.
I'm using Selenium Python to do the same action for different users and the flow is as follows,
1- the webpage show list of user ids
2- I search for 1 user-id (Iteration)
3- I click on the check box next to the user-id
4- I click on done
My issue is with the check box, it is clickable in the first row of iteration but then it becomes unclickable with the next row.
Checkbox Element:
<input type="checkbox" class="ant-checkbox-input" value="" xpath="1">
I have also tried ActionChains but I got the error: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
Thank you
the input checkbox might be in disable state or some javascript load is yet to happen before checkbox become availabe.
try this code:
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//tbody/tr[1]/td[1]/span[1]/label[1]/span[1]/input[1]"))).click()
another problem might be xpath changes depending on user you logged in.
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'//input [#type="checkbox"]'))).click()
above code will work only if you have 1 checkbox.
This code will try to click all the check boxes present on page, if this works we could narrow down XPath.
els=driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//input [#type="checkbox"]')
for el in els:
try:
el.click()
except:
pass
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
I m trying to write a script with selenium webdriver python.
When I try to do a
find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id='posted_1']/div[3]")
it says
NoElementFoundException.
Can someone please help me here?
Regards
Bala
If you are getting NoSuchElementException as your provided exception, There may be following reasons :-
May be you are locating with incorrect locator, So you need to share HTML for better locator solution.
May be when you are going to find element, it would not be present on the DOM, So you should implement WebDriverWait to wait until element visible as below :-
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
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
element = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[#id='posted_1']/div[3]")))
May be this element is inside any frame or iframe. If it is, you need to switch that frame or iframe before finding the element as below :-
driver.switch_to_frame("frame/iframe I'd or name")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
element = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[#id='posted_1']/div[3]")))
#Once all your stuff done with this frame need to switch back to default
driver.switch_to_default_content();
that exception, unsurprisingly, means that that element wasn't available on the DOM. There are a couple of options here:
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
will tell the driver to wait 10 seconds (or any amount of time) after an element is not found/not clickable etc., and tries again after. Sometimes elements don't load right away, so an implicit wait fixes those types of problems.
The other option here is to do an explicit wait. This will wait until the element appears, and until the existence of that element is confirmed, the script will not move on to the next line:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
element = WebDriverWait(ff, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[#id='posted_1']/div[3]")))
In my experience, an implicit wait is usually fine, but imprecise.