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Panda6515
Panda6515

Reputation: 23

How can I "click" download button on selenium in python

I want to download user data on Google analytics by using crawler so I write some code using selenium. However, I cannot click the "export" button. It always shows the error "no such element". I tried to use find_element_by_xpath, by_name and by_id. I upload inspect of GA page below.

I TRIED:

 driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='download-link']").click()
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ID-activity-userActivityTable"]/div/div[2]/span[6]/button')
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@class='_GAD.W_DECORATE_ELEMENT.C_USER_ACTIVITY_TABLE_CONTROL_ITEM_DOWNLOAD']')

Python Code:

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


driver = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/parkjunhong/Downloads/chromedriver')
driver.implicitly_wait(3)
usrid = '1021'
url = 'https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#/report/app-visitors-user-activity/a113876882w169675624p197020837/_u.date00=20190703&_u.date01=20190906&_r.userId='+usrid+'&_r.userListReportStates=%3F_u.date00=20190703%2526_u.date01=20190906%2526explorer- 
table.plotKeys=%5B%5D%2526explorer-table.rowStart=0%2526explorer- 
table.rowCount=1000&_r.userListReportId=app-visitors-user-id'
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_name('identifier').send_keys('ID')
idlogin = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="identifierNext"]/span/span')
idlogin.click()

driver.find_element_by_name('password').send_keys('PASSWD')
element = driver.find_element_by_id('passwordNext')
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)
#login
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='download-link']").click()
#click the download button

ERROR:

Message: no such element: Unable to locate element

inspection of GA

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1978

Answers (2)

AMITESH SRIVASTAVA
AMITESH SRIVASTAVA

Reputation: 48

You can try with the text:

If you want to click on 'Export'-

//button[contains(text(),'Export')]

Upvotes: 0

GregK
GregK

Reputation: 593

your click element is in an iFrame (iFrame id="galaxyIframe" ...). Therefore, you need to tell the driver to switch from the "main" page to said iFrame. If you add this line of code after your #login it should work: driver.switch_to.frame(galaxyIframe)

(If the frame did not have a name, you would use: iframe = driver.find_element_by_xpath("xpath-to-frame") and then driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)

To get back to your default frame, use: driver.switch_to.default_content()

Crawling GA is generally a pain. Not just because you have these iFrames everywhere. Apart from that, I would recommend looking into puppeteer, the new kid on the crawler block. Even though the prospect of switching to javascript from python may be daunting, it is worth it! Once you get into it, selenium will have felt super clunky.

Upvotes: 1

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