I try to get the xpath for the following button on instagram making an automate unfollowing soft. enter image description here
I found it just like this:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="qF0y9 Igw0E rBNOH YBx95 ybXk5 _4EzTm soMvl "]').click()
But i want to itterate over all ,,Following" Buttons , but like this is stuck at the first one!
This is my Code:
fBody = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='isgrP']")
for i in range(1, 1500):
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class=" qF0y9 Igw0E rBNOH YBx95 ybXk5 _4EzTm soMvl "]').click()
#driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='Following']").click()
print("Am apasat follow")
sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[#class="aOOlW -Cab_ "]').click()
sleep(5)
driver.execute_script('arguments[0].scrollTop = arguments[0].scrollTop + arguments[0].offsetHeight;', fBody)
print("Ma bag la somn 1 min")
sleep(2)
print("salut")
Selenium does Not "like" empty or white spaces in the attributes.
I suggest using a CSS selector and using *= in order to find text contains:
driver.find_element_by_CSS('//div[class*="qF0y9"][class*="Igw0E"]').click();
Avoid using white or empty spaces and, underscores (_) and hyphens (-) for the element's attributes.
I think the classes on the elements change as yours do not match with mine. Here is a more generic XPath that matches the "following" button.
//div//button[div[text()='Following']
When using this in a test I found it instantly failing unless I surrounded it with an explicit wait condition.
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//div//button[div[text()='Following']"))).click();
Ill post my example when Instagram stops giving me connectivity issues.
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I'm using Selenium to try and get some elements on a web page but I'm having trouble getting the ones I want. I'm getting some, but they're not the ones I want.
So what I have on my page are five divs that look like this:
<div class="membershipDetails">
Inside each one is something like this:
<div class="membershipDetail">
<h3>
VIP Membership
</h3>
</div>
They DO all have this same link, but they don't have the same text ('VIP Membership' would be replaced by something else)
So the first thing was to get all the divs above in a list. This is the line I use:
listElementsMembership = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(div[class^='membershipDetail'])
This gives me five elements, just as I would expect. I checked the 'class' attribute name and they are what I would expect. At this point I should say that they aren't all EXACTLY the same name 'membershipDetail'. Some have variations. But I can see that I have all five.
The next thing is to go through these elements and try and get that element which contains the href ('VIP Membership').
So I did that like this:
for elem in listElementsMembership:
elemDetailsLink = elem.find_element_by_xpath('//a[contains(#href,"EditMembership")]')
Now this does return something, but it always got me the element from the FIRST of the five elements. It's as if the 'elem.find_element_by_xpath' line is going up a level first before finding these hrefs. I kind of confirmed this by switching this to a 'find_elements_by_xpath' (plural) and getting, you guessed it, five elements.
So is this line:
elemDetailsLink = elem.find_element_by_xpath('//a[contains(#href,"EditMembership")]')
going up a level before getting its results? If it is, now can I make it not do that and just restrict itself to the children?
If you are trying to find element with in an element use a . in the xpath like below:
listElementsMembership = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(div[class^='membershipDetail'])
for elem in listElementsMembership:
elemDetailsLink = elem.find_element_by_xpath('.//a') # Finds the "a" tag with respect to "elem"
Suppose if you are looking for VIP Membership:
listElementsMembership = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(div[class^='membershipDetail'])
for elem in listElementsMembership:
value = elem.find_element_by_xpath('.//a').get_attribute("innerText")
if "VIP Membership" in value:
print(elem.find_element_by_xpath('.//a').get_attribute("innerText"))
And if you dont want iterate over all the five elements try to use xpath like below: (As per the HTML you have shared)
//div[#class='membershipDetail']//a[text()='VIP Membership']
Or
//div[#class='membershipDetail']//a[contains(text(),'VIP Membership')]
You've few mistake in that css selector.
Quotes are missing.
^ is for starts-with, not sure if you really need that. In case it's partial matching please use * instead of ^
Also, I do not see any logic for the below statement in your code attempt.
The next thing is to go through these elements and try and get that
element which contains the href ('VIP Membership').
Code :
listElementsMembership = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div[class*='membershipDetail']")
for ele in listElementsMembership:
e = ele.find_element(By.XPATH, ".//descendant::a")
if "VIP Membership" in e.get_attribute('href'):
print(e.text, e.get_attribute('href'))
You can give an index using a square bracket like this.
elemDetailsLink = elem.find_element_by_xpath('(//a[contains(#href,"EditMembership")])[1]')
If you are trying to get an element using XPath, the index should start with 1, not 0.
im trying to find an element with dinamic values , for example <span class="ms-Button-label label-175" id="id__177">Save</span> in inspect element, the id and class values tend to change for every refresh, how can i in this case find the element in selenium? i tried troguht xpath but seems doesnt work because can not find the path, i was thinking to find "Save" world torught always find by xpath but actually i dont know if im doing well : driver.find_element_by_xpath(//span(#.... but then? how can insert element if it changes everytime? thanks!
Something like this may work:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[text()="Save"]')
But this will fail, if there is more than one button with text "Save" on the page.
In that case you may try to find some specific outer element (div, form, etc.) which does not change and contains the button. Then find the button inside of it.
With few requests with driver:
specific_div = driver.find_element_by_id("my_specific_div")
button = specific_div.find_element_by_tag_name("span") # e.g. there is only one span in that div
Or with more specific xpath:
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="some-specific-class"]/span[text()="Save"]')
If needed, search for more nested elements before the button, so you can get more narrow search field.
More examples in the docs.
I have this logic which gets the current page's title first clicks on next button, fetches the title again and if both the titles are the same, meaning navigation has not moved to the next page, it clicks on Next again.
However, my problem is that the title element's Xpath differs - the same title element has two Xpaths. One is some pages the other in some other pages.
It is either this,
(.//span[#class='g-title'])[2]
OR
.//span[#class='g-title']
So, how can I handle this?
If the element has two xpath, then you can write two xpaths like below
xpath1 | xpath2
Eg: //input[#name="username"] | //input[#id="wm_login-username"]
It will choose any one xpath
You can use or operator like
(.//span[#class='g-title'])[2] or .//span[#class='g-title']
For more details : Two conditions using OR in XPATH
You can use or, like below:
//tr[#class='alternateRow' or #class='itemRow']
I had an interesting insight I had using this method. In my python code I was clicking a cart button and the or "|" ONLY works with separate xpath statements like so ...
WebDriverWait(webdriver,20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//*[#class='buttoncount-1'] | //button[contains(text(), 'Add to Cart')]")))
or
btn = webdriver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#class='buttoncount-1'] | //button[contains(text(), 'Add to Cart')]")
I found that "or" ONLY works when they share the same bracket []
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(text(), 'Add to Cart') or contains(text(),'Buy')]"))).click()
And since you're here. If you're curious about "and" statements this worked for me...
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(text(), 'Continue To Order Rev')][#data-attr='continueToOrderReviewBtn']"))).click()
Simply pairing two separate statements was sufficient. No "and" necessary.
Note: This was all in python. I do not know how this will transfer over to java. Hope this was somewhat useful. It took me a few migraines to narrow this down.
I using xpath="//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/descendant::div[#class='over']/span[text()='Dwarka, New']
but the element is not getting recognized. NosuchElementException is getting encountered.
Could anyone help me out here.I want to click the drop down value highlighted in the image.
It's failing beacuse there is a space after the word 'New'. The following should work.
//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/div/div[text()='Dwarka, New ']
Or consider serarching for the element containing the text rather than matching the entire text.
//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/div/div[contains(.,'Dwarka, New')]
And as cathal mentioned, you are searching for a div and not a span.
EDIT:As you request (although I don't believe there is a difference between "descendent" and "//".
//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/descendant::div[text()='Dwarka, New ']
//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/descendant::div[contains(text(),'Dwarka, New')]
Contains is an xpath function that allows you to query on something containing a value. It can be used with attributes, nodes but it's generally most useful for finding elements containg text. The reason this is working where as your query for the exact string fails is because the element you seek is padded with a trailing space. The contains query will find the element you are seeking as it's ignoring this trailing space.
i dont see anyw spans around your element, try the following:
WebElement name = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#id='keyword_suggest']//div[text()='Dwarka, New']"));
Try this:
WebElement name = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text()='Dwarka, New')]"));
How can I check whether a given text string is present on the current page using Selenium?
The code is this:
def elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(.,'search_text')]"));
if (elem == null) println("The text is not found on the page!");
If your searching the whole page for some text , then providing an xpath or selector to find an element is not necessary. The following code might help..
Assert.assertEquals(driver.getPageSource().contains("text_to_search"), true);
For some reason, certain elements don't seem to respond to the "generic" search listed in the other answer. At least not in Selenium2library under Robot Framework which is where I needed this incantation to find the particular element:
xpath=//script[contains(#src, 'super-sekret-url.example.com')]
A simpler (but probably less efficient) alternative to XPaths is to just get all the visible text in the page body like so:
def pageText = browser.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText();
Then if you're using JUnit or something, you can use an assertion to check that the string you are searching for is contained in it.
assertThat("Text not found on page", pageText, containsString(searchText));
Using an XPath is perhaps more efficient, but this way is simpler to understand for those unfamiliar with it. Also, an AssertionError generated by assertThat will include the text that does exist on the page, which may be desirable for debugging as anybody looking at the logs can clearly see what text is on the page if what we are looking for isn't.