I am struggling with Selenium
for the url: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2078
I am trying to click the button Download, but it doesn't find the element.
My code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from ipykernel import kernelapp as app
import time
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
driver_path = 'C:\\Users\\Idener\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path, options=options)
url = f"https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2078"
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='"'page-download-btn'"']").click()
CodePudding user response：
Your XPath is not valid. You don't need so much quotes
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='page-download-btn']").click()
CodePudding user response：
You are missing a delay.
Element should clicked only when it is completely rendered and ready to accept a click event. WebDriverWait expected_conditions explicit waits should be used for that.
Also, no need to add f before URL value and '"' instead of ' in XPath expression.
The following code will work for you:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from ipykernel import kernelapp as app
import time
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
driver_path = 'C:\\Users\\Idener\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path, options=options)
url = "https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2078"
driver.get(url)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "page-download-btn"))).click()