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Charles
Charles

Reputation: 309

Can't click a "next" button using xpath, .select nor Selenium using Python

I'm trying to click the "next" button on the bottom of this page: https://www.domcop.com/domains/great-expired-domains/

I've tried with a css selector using .select, with xpath and with Selenium and nothing worked.

I think the button is generating a JQuery code to list the domains on the same page which would explain why python can't click it with xpath and .select.

However, I couldn't figure out how to click it with Selenium...

Here's my script:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.domcop.com/domains/great-expired-domains/")
assert "Python" in driver.title
link = driver.find_element_by_class_name('next').get_attribute('a')

It returns a 'NoneType' object...

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1313

Answers (3)

Makjb lh
Makjb lh

Reputation: 432

enter image description herefind_element(:xpath, '//*[@id="domcop-table_wrapper"]/div[position()>1]/div[position()>1]/div/ul/li[6]/a/i[@class="icon-double-angle-right"]')

This Xpath will ALWAYS work. You can scroll down afterwards and click

I just did not scroll down. thats all.

Check this Xpath 

(:xpath, '//*[@id="domcop-table_wrapper"]/div[not(contains(text(),
"Display")) and not(contains(text(),"records"))]/descendant::li[@class="next"]/a/i[@class="icon-double-angle-right"]')

Upvotes: 0

Buaban
Buaban

Reputation: 5137

  1. You have to find both buttons.
  2. Scroll down to the bottom.
  3. Click the 2nd button.

See code below:

driver.get('https://www.domcop.com/domains/great-expired-domains/')    
aElements = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.next > a')
driver.execute_script('window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);') 
aElements[1].click()

Upvotes: 2

har07
har07

Reputation: 89315

Unlike common XML/HTML parser, selenium simulates browser behaviour, so it shouldn't have problem with elements generated by JQuery as you seem concrerned about. The problem with your selector was, that a is not attribute of element with class next, it is child of next instead. Therefore you can use CSS selector for child > here :

link = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.next > a')
link.click()

Upvotes: 3

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