I'm using selenium to automatically go to various webpages and download an XML file. This has been working fine but it has suddenly stopped working, and it's due to selenium not being able to find the element. I've tried using selector gadget with CSS & Xpath. I've tried directly copying from the inspect panel, I've tried using the wait function on selenium until the element fully shows and I'm getting no luck.

This is the html of where the download button is

<div class="video-playlist-xml" data-reactid=".2.0"><a href="#" data-reactid=".2.0.0"><i class="icon-download-xml-green" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="top" title="" data-original-title="Download xml file of the match" data-reactid=".2.0.0.0"></i></a></div>

The download button is just above the video, above the scoreline.

for x in range(number_of_clicks):
   driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\James\OneDrive\Desktop\webdriver\chromedriver.exe',options = options)
   driver.get('https://football.instatscout.com/teams/978/matches')
   time.sleep(10)
   print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title) 
   WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"#team-table1 > div.table-scroll-inner > div.team-stats-wrapper.team-stats-wrapper_no-vertical-scroll > table > tbody > tr:nth-child("  str(x 1)   ") > td:nth-child(1) > div > div.styled__MatchPlay-sc-10ytjn2-1.hkIvhi > i"))).click()
   WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"#root > div > article > section.player-details > div > div.OutsideClickWrapper-sc-ktqo9u.cTxKts > div > a:nth-child(1) > span > span"))).click()
   WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.video-playlist-xml > a[href] > i.icon-download-xml-green[data-original-title='Download xml file of the match']"))).click()
   chks = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("#players > div.control-block > div.control-block__container.control-block__container--large > button")
   for chk in chks:
       chk.click()
       time.sleep(15)
       driver.quit()

error Traceback

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TimeoutException                          Traceback (most recent call last)
~\AppData\Local\Temp/ipykernel_26436/2420202332.py in <module>
      6    WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"#team-table1 > div.table-scroll-inner > div.team-stats-wrapper.team-stats-wrapper_no-vertical-scroll > table > tbody > tr:nth-child("  str(x 1)   ") > td:nth-child(1) > div > div.styled__MatchPlay-sc-10ytjn2-1.hkIvhi > i"))).click()
      7    WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"#root > div > article > section.player-details > div > div.OutsideClickWrapper-sc-ktqo9u.cTxKts > div > a:nth-child(1) > span > span"))).click()
----> 8    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.video-playlist-xml > a[href] > i.icon-download-xml-green[data-original-title='Download xml file of the match']"))).click()
      9    #WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'//*[contains(concat( " ", @class, " " ), concat( " ", "video-playlist-xml", " " ))]//a | //*[contains(concat( " ", @class, " " ), concat( " ", "icon-download-xml-green", " " ))]'))).click()
     10    chks = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("#players > div.control-block > div.control-block__container.control-block__container--large > button")

~\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py in until(self, method, message)
     78             if time.time() > end_time:
     79                 break
---> 80         raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace)
     81 
     82     def until_not(self, method, message=''):

TimeoutException: Message: 

CodePudding user response：

To locate a clickable element instead of presence_of_element_located() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.video-playlist-xml > a[href] > i.icon-download-xml-green[data-original-title='Download xml file of the match']"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='video-playlist-xml']/a[@href]/i[@class='icon-download-xml-green' and @data-original-title='Download xml file of the match']"))).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
  

CodePudding user response：

Stupidly, I've just realised that clicking one of the elements was opening a new window. Issues solved. Thanks guys.