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vantuong
vantuong

Reputation: 161

How to click a link within youtube comment using python selenium

I'm new to selenium python, I'm trying to click a link in the youtube comment but I don't know what element to use? Can someone help me? thanks . example : 

<a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" spellcheck="false" href="/redirect?event=comments&amp;redir_token=ttzJJRuKzz6sJPh8qdMnWStc-958MTU0NjE1NDU4M0AxNTQ2MDY4MTgz&amp;stzid=Ugw6ip_QkzwyJPIq3bp4AaABAg&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fjulissars.itworks.com%2F" rel="nofollow">https://julissars.itworks.com&#65279;</a>

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 532

Answers (1)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193088

To click on the desired comment with text as https://julissars.itworks.com within the url you need to induce WebDriverwait for the element to be clickable and you can use either of the following solution:

  • Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

    WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "julissars"))).click()

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.yt-simple-endpoint.style-scope.yt-formatted-string[href*='julissars']"))).click()

  • Using XPATH:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string' and contains(., 'julissars')]"))).click()

  • 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

Upvotes: 1

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