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Ahmed
Ahmed

Reputation: 53

How to use find_element_by_xpath() for svg element using Selenium for Python

I'm trying to make an Instagram bot to like a post if it's unliked, and to ignore it if it's already liked I've managed to grab the div element and click it, but for the like detection code I need the attribute for "aria-label" or "fill" for the bot to specify if the post is liked or not, but I haven't managed to grab the svg element to do so.

Here's the like button structure

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and here's my code:

like_button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath(
'//*[@id="react-root"]/section/main/div/div/article/div[3]/section[1]/span[1]/button/div')
          
like_icon=like_button.find_element_by_xpath(
'//*[@id="react-root"]/section/main/div/div/article/div[3]/section[1]/span[1]/button/div/span/svg')

Whenever i run it an error occurs:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id="react-root"]/section/main/div/div/article/div[3]/section[1]/span[1]/button/div/span/svg"}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2033

Answers (1)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193108

The element is a dynamic WebElement, so ideally, to click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

    like_button = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button span > svg[aria-label='Like']"))).click()

  • Using XPATH:

    like_button = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button//span//*[name()='svg' and @aria-label='Like']"))).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

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Upvotes: 1

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