I need a way to find a button with a specific value in its text,which is a sequence of numbers like 768.I have tried with wd.find_element_by_xpath('//*[contains(text()='768')]')and with the function wd.find_element_by_css_selector('//input[value*='768']')but nothing works.The original xpath i need to locate and interact with is this (//*[#id="a-autoid-2-offer-2"]/span/input).The are other words in the description of the element but i need to identify it by value alone,and then interact with the button.
Help please,I'm stuck on this for days now.
I'm relatively new to using python & selenium. I'm trying to access NexisUni to automate a loop of searches. But, once I'm in NexisUni, I struggle to locate elements -- I get a "no such element" exception. I want to locate the search bar and input my search terms.
I've read about the fact that an iFrame might be present, and I need to switch frames. But, I don't see any frames! Is there a way to identify frames easily -- and could a frame be present without the word "frame" in the HTML? I've also tried loading the page longer and having the driver wait, to no avail.
The HTML code is below, the grey part is the piece I'd like to select:
HTML Code
The code I'm writing to identify it is:
SearchBar = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/main/div/div[13]/div[2]/div[1]/header/div[3]/section/span[2]/span/textarea').send_keys('search text')
I've also tried these two options:
find_element_by_class_name, find_element_by_id
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located)
... Any suggestions would be appreciated!
I'm trying to get the number in all the <b> tags on this website. I want every single "qid" (question id) so I think I have to use qids = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("b"), and based on other questions I've found I also need to implement a for loop and then print(qids.get_attribute("text")) but my code can't even seem to find elements with the <b> since I keep on getting the NoSuchElementException. The appearance of the website leads me to believe the content I'm looking for is within an iframe but I'm not sure if that affects the functionality of my code.
Here's a screencap of the website for reference
The html isn't of much use because the tag is its only defining trait:
<b>13570etc...</b>
Any help is much appreciated.
You could try searching by XPath:
driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//b")
Where // means "find all matching elements regardless of where they are in the document/current scope." Check out the XPath syntax here and mess around with a few different options.
I am attempting to scrape the Census website for ACS data. I have scripted the whole processes using Selenium except the very last click. I am using Python. I need to click a download button that is in a window that pops when the data is zipped and ready, but I can't seem to identify this button. It also seems that the button might change names based on when it was last run, for example, yui-gen2, yui-gen3, etc so I am thinking I might need to account for this someone. Although I normally only see yui-gen2.
Also, the tag seems to be in a "span" which might be adding to my difficulty honing in on the button I need to click.
Please help if you can shed any light on this for me.
code snippet:
#Refine search results to get tables
driver.find_element_by_id("prodautocomplete").send_keys("S0101")
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_id("prodsubmit").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(100)
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_id("check_all_btn_above").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(100)
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_id("dnld_btn_above").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(100)
driver.find_element_by_id("yui-gen0-button").click()
time.sleep(10)
driver.implicitly_wait(100)
driver.find_element_by_id("yui-gen2-button").click()
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Instead of using the element id, which as you pointed out varies, you can use XPath as Nogoseke mentioned or CSS Selector. Be careful to not make the XPath/selector too specific or reliant on changing values, in this case the element id. Rather than using the id in XPath, try expressing the XPath in terms of the DOM structure (tags):
//*/div/div/div/span/span/span/button[contains(text(),'Download')]
TIL you can validate your XPath by using the search function, rather than by running it in Selenium. I right-clicked the webpage, "inspect element", ctrl+f, and typed in the above XPath to validate that it is the Download button.
For posterity, if the above XPath is too specific, i.e. it is reliant on too many levels of the DOM structure, you can do something shorter, like
//*button[contains(text(),'Download')]
although, this may not be specific enough and may require an additional field, since there may be multiple buttons on the page with the 'Download' text.
Given the HTML you provided, you should be able to use
driver.find_element_by_id("yui-gen2-button")
I know you said you tried it but you didn't say if it works at all or what error message you are getting. If that never works, you likely have an IFRAME that you need to switch to.
If it works sometimes but not consistently due to changing ID, you can use something like
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[.='Download']")
On the code inspection view on Chrome you can right click on the item you want to find and copy the xpath. You can they find your element by xpath on Selenium.
I am working on writing automation tests for a custom web application. I am running into a problem where I can't change the text of a span. I have tried using driver.execute_script but have had no luck. (It would really help if I knew javascript better) As far as I know you can't click a span and the list is populated as a list of . What is the best way to change this text?
You need to set the innerHTML using execute_script():
driver.execute_script('arguments[0].innerHTML = "New value";', element)
where element should point to your span element, could be:
element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.file-wrapper span.k-dropdown span.k-input')