It closes when click runs. (selenium)-CodePudding

It closes when click runs.

and ı wanna just click button. ı wanna do click that xpath. but its doesnt work. it close without doesnt click. so it open edge. waiting waiting and close. it didint run my click command. and there a error. its "webdriver object has no attribute find_element_by_xpath"

from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Edge()
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")

time.sleep(7)

log_in = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='mount_0_0_ h']/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[1]/section/main/article/div[2]/div[2]/div/p/a/span")
log_in.click()

driver.close()

CodePudding user response：

I think this is what you want:

# Needed libs
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
import time

#Open the browser
driver = webdriver.Edge()
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")

# Wait and click for allow cookies button
allow_cookies_button = date = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, f"//button[text()='Only allow essential cookies']")))
allow_cookies_button.click()
# Wait and click for Sign in button
signup_button = date = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, f"//span[text()='Sign up']")))
signup_button.click()

# This time.sleep is to allow you to see what happened, you can delete it
time.sleep(5)
# Close the browser
driver.close()

Why your code did not work? Because as you console told you "find_element_by_xpath" is not a valid method/attribute for driver.

Advises for automation/Scraping:

Wait for the element you will use (it does not matter if you want to write, click or whatever, make sure the element is on the screen)
Try to use xpaths (Or any selector) that are understandable, you will reuse them in the future. What do you understand better, //span[text()='Sign up'] or //*[@id='mount_0_0_ h']/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[1]/section/main/article/div[2]/div[2]/div/p/a/span? Good selectors will save a lot of time in the future