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Alexander Dumarte
Alexander Dumarte

Reputation: 29

Inputting text in search box and then selecting from Auto Complete with Selenium and Python

I am trying to input some text in a search box using selenium and python. The code is below. It runs perfectly well up until the point if selecting the 'premier league' option. Although when this text is entered it comes up in the box as a pre-defined option I am unable to select and click it as I want...If you are navigating the webpage you can click on the 'premier league' option and it loads a new page. I don't seem to be able to replicate this

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchAttributeException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scores-fixtures")


try:
    elem = browser.find_element_by_class_name('sp-c-date-picker-timeline__item')
except:
    print('Was not able to find an element with that name.')

time.sleep(5)
elem.click()


try:
    elem2=browser.find_element_by_class_name('sp-c-search__input')
except:
    print('Not able to find an element with that name')

time.sleep(3)

elem2.send_keys('premier league')
time.sleep(2)

#searching for the text works but i can't select it

#elem2.send_keys(Keys.DOWN)
#time.sleep(2)
#elem2.send_keys(Keys.DOWN)
#time.sleep(2)
#elem2.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
#elem2.submit()

elem2.select_by_visible_text('Premier League')

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1393

Answers (1)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193088

As you have tried to identify the Search Box through classname identifies as follows :

elem = browser.find_element_by_class_name('sp-c-date-picker-timeline__item')
#and
elem2=browser.find_element_by_class_name('sp-c-search__input')

These locators doesn't identifies the Search Box uniquely.

To input some text in a search box you have to identify the Search Box with placeholder set to Enter a team or competition through a unique CSS or XPATH as follows :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='sp-c-search__input']").send_keys("premier league")

Finally, to click() on the option with text as Premier League you can use the following code block :

suggestions = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located(By.XPATH,"//input[@id='sp-c-search__input']//following::div[@id='search-results']//ul/li/a/mark"))
for suggestion in suggestions :
    if suggestion.get_attribute("innerHTML").contains("Premier League") :
        suggestion.click()

Update

As you are seeing the error as :

NameError: name 'By' is not defined

Ensure that you have added all the following imports :

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Upvotes: 1

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