Reputation: 1913
I'm trying to use Selenium w/ Python to click on answers to problems posted at a tutoring site, so I can take tests over the command line.
I enter the following:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver.get('https://www.varsitytutors.com/sat_critical_reading_diagnostic_1-problem-10821')
(an annoying popup comes up at this point -- we can ignore that for now)
Answers on the page are embedded in forms like this:
<div class="question_row">
<form class="button_to" method="post" action="/problem_question_answers/save_answer?answer_id=539461&problem_id=5065&qotd=false&question_id=10821">
<input id="answer_539461" class="test_button" type="submit" value="select" /><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="LE4B973DghoAF6Ja2qJUPIajNXhPRjy6fCDeELqemIl5vEuvxhHUbkbWeDeLHvBMtEUVIr7okC8Njp4eMIuU3Q==" /></form>
<div class="answer">
<p>English dramatists refused to employ slang in their work.</p>
</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
My goal is to click an answer such as this one in order to get to the next question using Selenium.
I thought it might be as easy as doing this:
answer_buttons=driver.find_elements_by_class_name('test_button')
answer_buttons[1].click()
But I get error messages saying that the element is out of the frame of the driver.
I've also tried submitting the form, which doesn't produce an error message:
answer_forms=driver.find_elements_by_class_name('button_to')
answer_forms[1].submit()
But it redirects to a different url that doesn't load: http://www.varsitytutors.com/sat_critical_reading_diagnostic_1-problems-results-d9399f1a-4e00-42a0-8867-91b1c8c9057d
Is there any way to do this programmatically, or is the website's code going to prevent this?
Edit:
With some help I was able to click the button once initially. But an identical submit button (by xpath) for the next question remains unclickable. This is the code I'm presently using:
driver.get('https://www.varsitytutors.com/practice-tests')
# click subject
subject=driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[3]/div[9]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]')
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'/html/body/div[3]/div[9]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]')))
subject.click()
# select specialty
specialty=driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[3]/div[9]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/a[4]')
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'/html/body/div[3]/div[9]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/a[4]')))
specialty.click()
# select test
taketest=WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'/html/body/div[3]/div[8]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", taketest)
# click away popup
button=WebDriverWait(driver,5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(.,'No Thanks')]")))
button.location_once_scrolled_into_view
button.click()
# select first choice
choice=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'/html/body/div[3]/div[7]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/form/input[1]')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", choice)
I repeat this code again over the next few lines. It has no effect, however; the drive stays on question two and the next few clicks don't work...
choice=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'/html/body/div[3]/div[7]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/form/input[1]')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", choice)
choice=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'/html/body/div[3]/div[7]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/form/input[1]')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", choice)
Upvotes: 0
Views: 642
Reputation: 33384
Try the following code.This will handle pop-up and click on the select button.
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://www.varsitytutors.com/sat_critical_reading_diagnostic_1-problem-10821')
driver.maximize_window()
button=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(.,'No Thanks, Start The Test')]")))
button.location_once_scrolled_into_view
button.click()
eleQuestions=WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'input.test_button')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", eleQuestions[2])
button=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(.,'No Thanks')]")))
button.location_once_scrolled_into_view
button.click()
Please note: you can change the indexes from 2 to 6.
Snapshot:
If you would like to select any particular Question as you mentioned then try below code.
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://www.varsitytutors.com/sat_critical_reading_diagnostic_1-problem-10821')
driver.maximize_window()
button=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(.,'No Thanks, Start The Test')]")))
button.location_once_scrolled_into_view
button.click()
eleQuestions=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//div[./p[text()='English dramatists refused to employ slang in their work.']]/parent::div//input[1]")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", eleQuestions)
button=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(.,'No Thanks')]")))
button.location_once_scrolled_into_view
button.click()
Upvotes: 1