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ElementClickInterceptedException: element click intercepted: Element is not clickable at point (320,

Time:08-29

I want to webscrape the following website: 'https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/home'

But when my code clicks on the "Search button", I get the error:

ElementClickInterceptedException: element click intercepted: Element is not clickable at point (320, 1395)

I am not sure if it's be'cos the "Search button" is not completely visible and needs scrolling down. If so, how do I scroll down the page using Selenium? Thank you

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs 
from selenium import webdriver
import time


driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Users/chromedriver.exe")

page_url = 'https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/home'
driver.get(page_url)

# Get search box and fill it up
search = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#divmpscreen2 > div.row > div:nth-child(1) > div > div:nth-child(1) > input')
search.send_keys('COS')

# This will select the 13th parliament
session = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select/option[contains(text(), '13th')]")
session.click()
time.sleep(10)

# Find submit element and click
submit = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@label='Search']/em")
submit.click()

CodePudding user response:

This is how you suppose to click an element using Selenium:

clickLastFoundElement():       
    try:
        builder = Actions(browser)
        builder.moveToElement(my_element).click().build().perform()
    except ElementNotInteractableException:
        try:
            my_element.click()          
        except Exception:
            hardClickElement(my_element)

hardClickElement(element):
    executor = (JavascriptExecutor)browser
    executor.executeScript('arguments[0].click();', element)

Sometimes an element won't be clicked, and you will have to "hard" click it by injecting JavaScript code into it.

CodePudding user response:

We can try click by using moving to element or by using java script executor

Actions action = new Actions(webdriver);
WebElement we = webdriver.findElement(By.xpath("path here"));
action.moveToElement(we).click().build().perform();

using javascript

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfd"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

CodePudding user response:

To click on the Search button you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following locator strategy:

driver.get('https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/home')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#divmpscreen2 > div.row > div:nth-child(1) > div > div:nth-child(1) > input"))).send_keys('COS')
Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//label[text()='By Parliament']//following-sibling::select[1]")))).select_by_value('13: 13')
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='btn btn-black' and @label='Search']/em"))))

Browser Snapshot:

SearchResults

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:

This is one way to select the desired info and click that button (EDIT: a better way without ActionChains, and working on smaller sized windows as well):

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
import time as t


chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
chrome_options.add_argument('disable-notifications')
chrome_options.add_argument("window-size=1280,720")

webdriver_service = Service("chromedriver/chromedriver") ## path to where you saved chromedriver binary
browser = webdriver.Chrome(service=webdriver_service, options=chrome_options)

url = 'https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/home'

browser.get(url) 
searchbox = WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//label[contains(text(), 'By Keyword')]/following-sibling::input")))
print(searchbox.location_once_scrolled_into_view)
searchbox.send_keys('COS')
govt_nr = Select(WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//label[contains(text(), 'By Parliament')]/following-sibling::select"))))
govt_nr.select_by_index(13) 
browser.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);")
t.sleep(1)
submit_button = WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[label = 'Search']")))
submit_button.click()

Setup is linux/chromedriver, you just have to observe the imports, and the code after defining the browser/driver.

Selenium docs: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/

One more thing to keep in mind: results will open in a new tab, so you will need to switch to it using something to the tune of switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[-1]).

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