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jeepers mcface
jeepers mcface

Reputation: 419

Why can't Selenium (Python) find link on page with link text?

Here is the snippet of HTML I am drawing from:

<div class="exportlinks">
Export options:
<a href=[link]>
<span class="export CSV">CSV</span>
</a>
|
<a href=[really secret link here]>
<span class="export excel">Excel</span>
</a>
</div>

Here is the snippet of code that I am trying to use to do so:

exportToExcel = browser.find_element_by_link_text("Excel")
exportToExcel.click()

I had also tried to find the element by class name (export excel) to no avail.

Heck, I even tried to retrieve both links via find elements by class ("exportlinks") and then select from that list the one I wanted, but it returned an empty list.

Am I missing something here? Does it have to do with the fact that the text and class are in a ? Or the fact that this snippet of HTML is pretty deep in the rest of the HTML of the page?

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 251

Answers (1)

ewwink
ewwink

Reputation: 19164

if it dynamically generated you have to use WebDriverWait

exportToExcel = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(
    lambda d: d.find_element_by_link_text("Excel")
    # lambda d: d.find_element_by_css_selector('.export.excel')
)
exportToExcel.click()

Or if it in iframe switch to it

iframe = driver.find_element_by_***("....")
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
exportToExcel = browser.find_element_by_link_text("Excel")
exportToExcel.click()

Upvotes: 1

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