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Alain
Alain

Reputation: 401

Selenium Can't find "HOME" element on Facebook

I'm doing some exercises with selenium, trying to scrape a few pages on facebook. However, I'm not able to find the "Home" button link element to keep going. This on the left menu in any user's profile.

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From what I'm seeing in the page code, the link is here:

<div class="_2yaa" data-key="tab_home">
  <a class="_2yau" data-endpoint="/seudogshow/?ref=page_internal" href="/seudogshow/?ref=page_internal">
    <span class="_2yav">Home</span>
    <span class="img _55ym _55yn _55yo _2wwb" aria-busy="true" role="progressbar" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100" aria-valuetext="Loading..."></span>
  </a>
</div>

How would you guys go about clicking this button?

I tried with something like this:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(), 'Home')]").click()

or

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(text(), 'Home')]"))).click()

But I'm clearly doing it wrong.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 171

Answers (1)

C. Peck
C. Peck

Reputation: 3717

The element you are trying to click has a span tag, not a. Try the following:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[contains(text(), 'Home')]").click()

Upvotes: 1

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