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pythonpython-3.xseleniumweb-scraping
Piotr Menclewicz
Piotr Menclewicz

Reputation: 109

Can't find text element with selenium

I'm trying to use Selenium to create a new message in my mailbox. I have a problem with finding napisz (en: 'write') button on my e-mail website. I tried to use driver.find_element_by_link_text but it doesn't work. I've managed to go workaround this problem using xpath but I'm very curious why the first method fails.

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('https://profil.wp.pl/login.html?zaloguj=poczta&url=https://poczta.wp.pl/profil/')
elem_login = browser.find_element_by_name('login_username')
elem_login.send_keys('[email protected]')
elem_password = browser.find_element_by_name('password')
elem_password.send_keys('thankyouforhelp')
elem_zaloguj_button = browser.find_element_by_id('btnSubmit')
elem_zaloguj_button.click()
browser.get('https://poczta.wp.pl/d635/indexgwt.html#start')
elem_napisz_button = browser.find_element_by_link_text('napisz')
elem_napisz_button.click()

EDIT: I've tried to used same xpath today but it failed. Is it possible that it's somehow dynamic causing the problem?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 733

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474161

.find_element_by_link_text() looks for a elements only. In your case, this is the button element and cannot be located using this locator.

Upvotes: 3

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