How could I find this item using selenium by this text in between the span?-CodePudding

I am trying to find this item by this text in-between :

I currently have the following code:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


options=Options()
driver=webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
    
#Directing to site
driver.get("https://www.amazon.co.uk");

#Searching and navigating to search page
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[1]/span/form/div[3]/span[1]/span/input"))).click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[1]/header/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/form/div[2]/div[1]/input"))).send_keys("Nintendo Switch")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[1]/header/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/form/div[3]/div/span/input"))).click()

#Locating item on page
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[contains(., 'Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)')]"))).click()

however there seems to be a mistake here. What would be the correct way of rewriting this?

CodePudding user response：

driver.findElement(By.id("Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)")) is the Java syntax and possibly you need Python syntax.

Solution

To print the text In stock. you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using XPATH and innerText:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)']")))

Using XPATH and contains():

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[contains(., 'Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)')]")))

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

CodePudding user response：

David,

This line of code that you've

#Locating item on page
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[contains(., 'Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)')]"))).click()

here xpath //span[contains(., 'Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)')] has 5 entries in HTML-DOM.

How you can verify the same?

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL F -> then paste the xpath, you'd see 1 of 5 entries

That's why your code is not working properly. xpath should locate unique entry in HTML-DOM. If it has multiple entry it will always select the first node.

So changing your xpath to //a//span[contains(., 'Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)')] should filter the element to 1 of 3. Now this element will get the click Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) - White.

If your intention is to pick Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) - Neon Blue/Neon Red then use this XPath

//a//span[contains(., 'Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)') and contains(text(),'Neon Blue/Neon Red')]

and same for another web element as well.

Hope this helps.