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Im trying to click on this button to move to the login page.
my code is :
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://moodle.tau.ac.il/')
thats work fine but i can only find the form by using
loginform = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[#id='login']/")
I don't know how to get to the button, it's very basic stuff but I didn't find any good example.
This will click on the login button on moodle.tau.ac.il page.
The line driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[#id='login']/div/input").click() finds the login button on the page and clicks it. Xpath is just a selector type that you can use with selenium to find web elements on a page. You can also use ID, classname, and CSSselectors.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = new webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('moodle.tau.ac.il')
# This will take you to the login page.
driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[#id='login']/div/input").click()
# Fills out the login page
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]/input")
elem.send_keys('Your Username')
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]/input")
elem.send_keys('Your ID Number')
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]/input")
elem.send_keys('Your Password')
driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[7]/td[2]/input").click()
The page has two identical login forms and your XPath returns the hidden one.
So with the visible one:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(r"http://moodle.tau.ac.il/")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#page-content #login input[type=submit]").click()
Or with an XPath:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(r"http://moodle.tau.ac.il/")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("id('page-content')//form[#id='login']//input[#type='submit']").click()
You could find it using XPath as mentioned by #ChrisP
You could find it by CSS selector: "#login input[type='text']"
Or you could also just submit the form... loginForm.submit()
Ideally, you'd have a unique id for that button which would make it very easy to find.
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Discord Element To Click
I am trying to click the button on the discord login page, i have tried finding the class however the class is random every session i believe and i have tried finding the ID but it does not have an ID.
My goal is to insert text (i've done that already) and click the "Login" button
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:/Users/sexyv/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://discord.com/login")
email_box = driver.find_element(by=By.NAME, value="email")
password_box = driver.find_element(by=By.NAME, value="password")
submit_button = driver.find_element(by=By.ID, value="login-button")
def login(driver, email_box, password_box):
driver.implicitly_wait(3)
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
email_box.send_keys("johnsonkalel15#gmail.com")
password_box.send_keys("Kalel12345shjd")
login(driver=driver,email_box=email_box, password_box=password_box)```
If you want to click on login button use the below locator and click on it.
CSS Selector
button[type='submit']
OR XPATH
//button[#type='submit']
Im trying to automate blog posting using selenium and python
Able to locate element using Inspect element in browser
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('https://www.blogger.com/go/signin')
email = browser.find_element_by_id('identifierId')
email.send_keys("xxxxxx#gmail.com")
email.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
time.sleep(5)
password = browser.find_element_by_name("password")
password.send_keys("xxxxxx")
password.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
time.sleep(5)
newpost = browser.find_element_by_partial_link_text("editor")
posttitle = browser.find_element_by_name("K3JSBVB-C-b titleField textField K3JSBVB-C-a")
error
Unable to locate element: [name="K3JSBVB-C-b titleField textField K3JSBVB-C-a"]
This K3JSBVB-C-b class attribute looks dynamic, I would rather suggest sticking to the New post text instead.
The relevant XPath expression would be something like:
//a[text()='New post']
Also consider using Explicit Wait as using sleep is an antipattern you should be avoiding
new_post = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(
expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable(By.XPATH("//a[text()='New post']")))
new_post.click()
More information: How to use Selenium to test web applications using AJAX technology
I am trying to go to the drought monitor website and tell it to select to show county data. I am able to get my code to navigate to the website, and it clicks the dropdown, but I cannot get it to type in "county". My code gets to the last line and then give the error: "Cannot focus element".
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm very new to Selenium.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Data/DataDownload/ComprehensiveStatistics.aspx')
browser.maximize_window()
dropdown = browser.find_element_by_xpath("""//*
[#id="dnn_ctr1009_USDMservice_CompStats_2017_aoiType_chosen"]""")
dropdown.click()
dropdown.send_keys('county')
dropdown.submit()
print("I'm done")
You're sending keys to the <div> that contains the search <input>, rather than to the <input> element itself. You'll need to find the <input> and send it the keys.
(Note: You also don't need to use XPath for something as simple as a lookup by id.)
dropdown = browser.find_element_by_id("dnn_ctr1009_USDMservice_CompStats_2017_aoiType_chosen")
dropdown.click()
search = dropdown.find_element_by_tag_name("input")
search.send_keys("county", Keys.ENTER)
I am getting very frustrated trying to login to costar.com with python and selenium. I have tried it on the chrome browser and firefox browser, but can't figure out the correct code.
I have logged into other websites, but cannot figure out how to input text into the login boxes for this site.
Here's what I have so far:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Users/Gus Gabel/Anaconda/chromedriver.exe")
browser.get("http://www.costar.com")
browser.maximize_window()
#the username and password boxes are hidden until you press the login button on the home page
login = browser.find_element_by_id("loginLink")
login.click()
#now that the username and password boxes are available, I've tried finding the elements by class_name, xpath, (BY.NAME), id, etc and nothing has worked
#here are a few codes that haven't worked and the errors associated
user = browser.find_element_by_id('username')
NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element
user = browser.find_element_by_class_name('usernameNew')
NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element
#when i try to use the above code with "elements" instead of "element", no error message pops up.
user = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('usernameNew')
#but then whey i try to choose which element by doing this
user = browser.find_element_by_class_name('usernameNew')[0]
NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element
How is it possible that there can be a list of elements, but yet not have an initial element?
If anyone can figure out how to input text into the username and password text boxes of costar.com, I will be greatly appreciative. I can't figure this out for the life of me!
To enter text into an input box with Selenium (e.g, your user name into the username field), use the send_keys method of the element:
input_element.send_keys('some_text_string')
You can also try Selenium's action_chains module, as in the following code (untested), to get past the roadblock from #dm295's answer:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common import action_chains
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("http://www.costar.com")
action = action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
login = driver.find_element_by_class_name("login-icon")
login.click()
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_id('custlogin'))
username = driver.find_element_by_id('username')
action.move_to_element(username).perform()
username.send_keys('Gus Gabel')
A couple of things:
(a) you have to wait until the page is loaded (or at least the part of the page that you are interested in)
(b) only maximized browser window works for me (depends on device/resolution)
(c) you are trying to click the wrong element
import time
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
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("http://www.costar.com")
try:
# wait 15 seconds till the login link is present
login = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "login-icon"))
)
login.click()
# just sleep 5 seconds to show that the login link was clicked
time.sleep(5)
# do other stuff (probably fill in username and password) ...
finally:
driver.quit()
Read the documentation regards waiting in selenium.
EDIT
Manged to get one step further (switch to iframe), but the following code raises
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message:
Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("http://www.costar.com")
try:
login = driver.find_element_by_class_name("login-icon")
login.click()
# switch to the custlogin iframe
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_id('custlogin'))
username = driver.find_element_by_id('username')
# this will raise:
# selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message:
# Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
username.send_keys('username')
finally:
driver.quit()
I'm trying to crawl the website "http://everydayhealth.com". However, I found that the page will dynamically rendered. So, when I click the button "More", some new news will be shown. However, using splinter to click the button doesn't let "browser.html" automatically changes to the current html content. Is there a way to let it get newest html source, using either splinter or selenium? My code in splinter is as follows:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from splinter import Browser
browser = Browser()
browser.visit('http://everydayhealth.com')
browser.click_link_by_text("More")
print(browser.html)
Based on #Louis's answer, I rewrote the program as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.everydayhealth.com")
more_xpath = '//a[#class="btn-more"]'
more_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(more_xpath))
more_btn.click()
more_news_xpath = '(//a[#href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/recipe-rehab/5-herbs-and-spices-to-intensify-flavor.aspx"])[2]'
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(more_news_xpath))
print(driver.execute_script("return document.documentElement.outerHTML;"))
driver.quit()
However, in the output text, I still couldn't find the text in the updated page. For example, when I search "Is Milk Your Friend or Foe?", it still returns nothing. What's the problem?
With Selenium, assuming that driver is your initialized WebDriver object, this will give you the HTML that corresponds to the state of the DOM at the time you make the call:
driver.execute_script("return document.documentElement.outerHTML;")
The return value is a string so you could do:
print(driver.execute_script("return document.documentElement.outerHTML;"))
When I use Selenium for tasks like this, I know browser.page_source does get updated.