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Erfan Monemi
Erfan Monemi

Reputation: 55

Python Selenium, help me locate an element in a website

I want to click on "new order" icon in mt4 web terminal using selenium module in python

This is the code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')
driver.get("https://www.mql5.com/en/trading")
new_order = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[3]/div[1]/a[1]/span[1]')
new_order.click()

And this is the error that I get:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[3]/div[1]/a[1]/span[1]"}
(Session info: chrome=86.0.4240.198)

What is the correct way to locate that button, I searched and found some ways to locate elements for selenium but I couldn't get any of them work for me.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 266

Answers (3)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193108

The element with tooltip as New Order is within an <iframe> so you have to:

  • Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.

  • Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable.

  • You can use the following based Locator Strategies:

    driver.get('https://www.mql5.com/en/trading')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@id='webTerminalHost']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[text()='Connect to an Account']//following-sibling::div[1]/span"))).click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@title='New Order']/span"))).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: 2

Jortega
Jortega

Reputation: 3790

You can use a different xpath:

new_order = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@title="New Order"]')

But I would suggest By, WebDriverWait, and expected_conditions:

from selenium import webdriver
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.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')
driver.get("https://www.mql5.com/en/trading")
time.sleep(5)
iframe = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//iframe[@id="webTerminalHost"]')))
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
new_order = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//a[@title="New Order"]')))
new_order.click()

Upvotes: 1

DMart
DMart

Reputation: 2461

Looks like your page is dealing with iframes. So while the above answer has good practices, you also need to switch to the iframe:

driver.switch_to.iframe(self,frame reference)

Look for more details at https://www.techbeamers.com/switch-between-iframes-selenium-python/ or https://stackoverflow.com/a/24286392/1387701

Upvotes: 4

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