I'm trying to click on a button to change the year displayed by the calendar via the python module called Selenium.
I have tried all of the methods presented by other users but nothing seems to work. In fact, it seems to be impossible to click on a href containing some sort of Javascript code.
Have you ever encountered the same problem?
I'll join 2 pictures (Html code and UI of the calendar).
Calendar UI
HTML Code
Thanks for your help/time.
From the HTML you provided, you should be able to use either link text or an XPath and click on the link/A tag that contains "<<"
find_element_by_link_text("<<")
find_element_by_xpath("//a[.='<<']")
Either one should work.
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I am trying to scrape the link from a button. If I click the button, it opens a new tab and I can't navigate in it. So I thought I'd scrape the link, go to it via webdriver.get(link) and do it that way since this will be a background program. I cannot find any tutorials on this using the most recent version of selenium. This is in Python
I tried using
wd.find_element("xpath", 'xpath here')
but that just scrapes the button title. Is there a different tag I should be using?
I've also tried just clicking the button but that opens a new tab and I don't know how to navigate on it, since it doesn't work by default and I'm still fairly new to Chromedriver.
I can't use beautifulsoup to my knowledge, since the webpage must be logged in.
You need to get the href attribute of the button. If your code gets the right button you can just use
button.get_attribute("href")
Of course if you get redirected using Javascript this is a different story, but since you didn't specify I will assume my answer works
You can use swith_of function to manage multiple windows(tabs) in same test case session
driver.switch_to.window(name_or_handler)
An extra information: If you want to get attribute value from element, you can use get_attribute() function
link_value = driver.find_element(By, selector).get_attribute("href")
P.S: example code written in Python. If you use another language, you can use equivalent Selenium functions for them.
Hi :) This is my first time here and I am new to programming.
I am currently trying to automate some work-steps, using Selenium.
There was no problem, mainly using the find_element(By.ID,'') function and clicking stuff.
But now I cannot find any element that comes after the second "html" tag on the site (see screenshot)
I tried to google this "multiple html" problem, but all I found was people saying it is not possible to have multiple html tags. I basically don't know anything about html, but this site seems to have more than one - there are actually three. And anything after the first one cannot be subject to the find_element function. Please help me with this confusion.
These "multiple html" are due to the i frames in the html code. Each iframe has its own html code. If the selector you are using is meant to find something inside one of these iframes you have to "move" your driver inside the iframe. You can find an example in this other question
I'm new to using Selenium, and I am having trouble figuring out how to click through all iterations of a specific element. To clarify, I can't even get it to click through one as it's a dropdown but is defined as an element.
I am trying to scrape fanduel; when clicking on a specific game you are presented with a bunch of main title bets and in order to get the information I need to click the dropdowns to get to that information. There is also another drop down that states, "See More" which is a similar problem, but assuming this gets fixed I'm assuming I will be able to figure that out.
So far, I have tried to use:
find_element_by_class_name()
find_element_by_css_selector()
I have also used them in the sense of elements, and tried to loop through and click on each index of the list, but that did not work.
If there are any ideas, they would be much appreciated.
FYI: I am using beautiful soup to scrape the website for the information, I figured Selenium would be helpful making the information that isn't currently accessible, accessible.
This image shows the dropdowns that I am trying to access, in this case the dropdown 'Win Margin'. The HTML code is shown to the left of it.
This also shows that there are multiple dropdowns, varying in amount based off the game.
You can also try using action chains from selenium
menu = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".nav")
hidden_submenu = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".nav # submenu1")
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(menu).click(hidden_submenu).perform()
Source: here
Trying to click on the button on "https://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=JengaSneaky". But I can't find the element that trigger it.
The pic shows one of the buttons. I want Selenium to click on it so I can scrape the data that pops up. I've tried to find the element but it says I can't use it with click().
The problem with these kind of buttons is that they are generated each time you load the html ( or the page ) based on the data contained in a database that changes everyday.
That's why they don't come with a unique id or something to distinguish them from others.
The thing you could do here is to find them by the CSS SELECTOR or by XPATH.
But you will always have to check if they changed everyday.
What you could also try to do is locate them if they contain a specific text.
I'm trying to learn how to use selenium. I'm trying to work on creating script to like instagram photos; however, i'm running into a problem where xpath won't detect the image i want to click. I think this is probably due to the fact it's a javascript button.
This is a picture of the element i am inspecting. There's multiple pictures on the site and i am given the line
<a class="thumb-shadow" href="javascript:void(0);"></a>
https://gyazo.com/558df373e6ac426f098759665fd8f918
I've tried clicking the xpath of image wrapper, but it doesn't work either. How can i click the javascript item? Are there any resources you can point me to?
Thanks
Try driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[#class='thumb-shadow']/img").click()