Python locating elements in html using selenium

Question

i'm new to python selenium package. I'm developing crawler for a bookie site.

I'm unable to click and open an image link.

My code:

PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
web = 'https://odibets.com/'
driver.get(web)

driver.implicitly_wait(3)
# btn = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span.icon')""
btn = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@href='/League'] and //span[text()='League']")

# <img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/odibets/img/menu/odi-league-2.png">

# //img[@src ="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/odibets/img/menu/odi-league-2.png"]
# //span[text()='League']
btn.click()

I get the following exception. raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector: Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression //a[@href='/League'] and //span[text()='League'] because of the following error: TypeError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The result is not a node set, and therefore cannot be converted to the desired type. (Session info: chrome=96.0.4664.45) Stacktrace: Backtrace: Ordinal0 [0x010D6903+2517251]

Attached is the snapshot code from chrome developer tools and page itself.

Arundeep Chohan · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-04 08:22:40Z

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Your href was /league not /League

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@href='/league'] [.//span[contains(.,'League')]]").click()

This also works somehow the element wasn't clicking correctly.

elem=driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//a[@href='/league'] [.//span[contains(.,'League')]])[1]")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click()", elem)

edited Dec 4, 2021 at 8:22

answered Dec 4, 2021 at 5:01

Arundeep Chohan

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Bernietechy Over a year ago

I get the following exception after running the code based on the code you provided.

File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 247, in check_response     raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable   (Session info: chrome=96.0.4664.45) Stacktrace: Backtrace:         Ordinal0 [0x00CF6903+2517251]         Ordinal0 [0x00C8F8E1+2095329]         Ordinal0 [0x00B92710+1058576]

still the link cannot open

Arundeep Chohan Over a year ago

Found a work around.

Bernietechy Over a year ago

Why does it look complex, the click() method is not working on first one.

Arundeep Chohan Over a year ago

Something about the click function not working so I just used used javascript on the a tag.

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