I am trying to create an automated download event for one ERP platform using Selenium in python. This is a bit tricky for this part as there is no specific element to find and click.
Multiple buttons have the same class and no id for the highlighted button (DATABASE/BACKUP)
Can anyone help me with the same?
event flow >> Login page > click "administration button" > click "database / backup"
thanks
CodePudding user response:
As per Selenium documentation https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html you can find all of the elements by their class name and then access them by index ([index_number]).
all_buttons = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("your_class_name")
then you can do something like:
button_to_click = all_buttons[3] # The 4th button which has index 3 in all the retrieved buttons by class name
CodePudding user response:
driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//a[contains(text(),'Database / Backup')]").click()
Simply click the a tag which contains the text.
CodePudding user response:
To click on the element with text as DATABASE/BACKUP you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using xpath:
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[@class='menui' and contains(., 'DATABASE/BACKUP')]").click()
Using xpath:
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[text()[contains(., 'DATABASE/BACKUP')]]").click()
The desired element is a dynamic element, ideally to click on a clickable element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using XPATH:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='menui' and contains(., 'DATABASE/BACKUP')]"))).click()
Using XPATH:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[text()[contains(., 'DATABASE/BACKUP')]]"))).click()
Note: You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC