How can I click on Google Maps sidebar menu using Selenium through Python-CodePudding

When I execute the code below, the interpreter displays running Process ended, but I receive no output on my headless browser.

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome("F:\\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://www.google.com/maps")
driver.implicitly_wait(10)

menu = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="omnibox-singlebox"]/div[1]/div[1]')
menu.click()

I also experiment with This XPath:

menu = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="omnibox-singlebox"]/div[1]/div[1]/button')

CodePudding user response：

The Website is taking time to load. But the options are already available. And there is no difference in the attributes of the button tag for menu before and after waiting time.

So waiting for the menu to clickable does not have an effect. Applying some sleep time after the driver.get() worked fine.

driver.get("https://www.google.com/maps/@12.3270885,76.6990167,15z")
time.sleep(10)

# wait = WebDriverWait(driver,30)
# wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[@class='searchbox-button']")))
menu = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='searchbox-button']")
menu.click()
time.sleep(5)

CodePudding user response：

The menu element has a class searchbox-hamburger-container which you can use to easily create a css selector for clicking the menu

Instead of this

menu = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="omnibox-singlebox"]/div[1]/div[1]')
menu.click()

You can do this

menu = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.searchbox-hamburger-container")
menu.click()