I keep getting the ElementClickInterceptedException
on this script I'm writing, I'm supposed to click a link that will open a new window, scrape from the new window and close it and move to the next link to scrape, but it just won't work, it gives the error after max 3 link clicks. I saw a similar question here and I tried using wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable())
and also maximized my screen but still did not work for me. Here is the site I am scraping from trying to scrape all the games for each day and here is a chunk of the code I'm using
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options as FirefoxOptions
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException, NoSuchElementException, ElementNotInteractableException, StaleElementReferenceException
from time import sleep
l = "https://www.flashscore.com/"
options = FirefoxOptions()
#options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="geckodriver.exe",
firefox_options=options)
driver.install_addon('C:\\Windows\\adblock_plus-3.10.1-an fx.xpi')
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get(l)
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
cnt = 0
sleep(5)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
a = driver.window_handles[0]
b = driver.window_handles[1]
driver.switch_to.window(a)
# Close Adblock tab
if 'Adblock' in driver.title:
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(a)
else:
driver.switch_to.window(b)
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(a)
var1 = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='leagues--live ']/div/div")
knt = 0
for i in range(len(var1)):
if (var1[i].get_attribute("id")):
knt = 1
#sleep(2)
#driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles)
var1[i].click()
sleep(2)
#var2 = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[contains(@classs, 'event__match event__match--last event__match--twoLine')]")))
print(len(driver.window_handles))
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
try:
sleep(4)
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(a)
#sleep(3)
except(Exception):
print("Exception caught")
#WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "event__match event__match--last event__match--twoLine")))
sleep(10)
driver.close()
Any ideas to help please.
CodePudding user response:
It looks like the element you are trying to click on is covered by a banner ad or something else like a cookie message.
To fix this you can scroll down to the last element using the following code:
driver.execute_script('\
let items = document.querySelectorAll(\'div[title="Click for match detail!"]\'); \
items[items.length - 1].scrollIntoView();'
)
Add it before clicking on the desired element in the loop. I tried to make a working example for you but it works on chromedriver not gecodriver:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation", "enable-logging"])
service = Service(executable_path='your\path\to\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
url = 'https://www.flashscore.com/'
driver.get(url)
# accept cookies
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'onetrust-accept-btn-handler'))).click()
matches = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div[title="Click for match detail!"]')
for match in matches:
driver.execute_script('\
let items = document.querySelectorAll(\'div[title="Click for match detail!"]\'); \
items[items.length - 1].scrollIntoView();'
)
match.click()
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
print('get data from open page')
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])
driver.quit()
It works in both normal and headless mode