For a): from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException def check_exists_by_xpath(xpath): try: webdriver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath) except NoSuchElementException: return False return True For b): Moreover, you can take the XPath expression as a standard throughout all your scripts and create functions as above mentions for universal use. I recommend to use CSS selectors. I recommend not to mix/use “by id”, “by … Read more
CSS selectors perform far better than XPath selectors, and it is well documented in Selenium community. Here are some reasons: XPath engines are different in each browser, hence making them inconsistent Internet Explorer does not have a native XPath engine, and therefore Selenium injects its own XPath engine for compatibility of its API. Hence we … Read more
You can try to get the list of all elements with class = “content” by using find_elements_by_class_name: a = driver.find_elements_by_class_name(“content”) Then you can click on the link that you are looking for.
Here’s a general solution: def get_text_excluding_children(driver, element): return driver.execute_script(“”” return jQuery(arguments[0]).contents().filter(function() { return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE; }).text(); “””, element) The element passed to the function can be something obtained from the find_element…() methods (i.e., it can be a WebElement object). Or if you don’t have jQuery or don’t want to use it, you can replace … Read more
Use findElements instead of findElement. findElements will return an empty list if no matching elements are found instead of an exception. To check that an element is present, you could try this Boolean isPresent = driver.findElements(By.yourLocator).size() > 0 This will return true if at least one element is found and false if it does not … Read more
You are probably looking for get_attribute(). An example is shown here as well def test_chart_renders_from_url(self): url=”http://localhost:8000/analyse/” self.browser.get(url) org = driver.find_element_by_id(‘org’) # Find the value of org? val = org.get_attribute(“attribute name”)
This error message… selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {“method”:”name”,”selector”:”submitNext”} (Session info: chrome=66.0.3359.170) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.36.540470) …implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to locate the desired element. Locating the desired element As per the HTML you have shared to click on the element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies: … Read more
I finally found out what the problem was. Before making the post request with the requests library, I should have passed the cookies of the browser first. The code is as follows: import requests from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Firefox() url = “some_url” #a redirect to a login page occurs driver.get(url) #storing the cookies … Read more
It is actually possible to scroll automatically to element. Although this is not a good solution in this case (there must be a way to get it working without scrolling) I will post it as a workaround. I hope someone will come up with better idea… public void scrollAndClick(By by) { WebElement element = driver.findElement(by); … Read more
Create cookies using the Java API as follows: Cookie ck = new Cookie(“name”, “value”); driver.manage().addCookie(ck); Create cookies using the Python API as follows: driver.add_cookie({‘name’: ‘foo’, ‘value’: ‘bar’})