How to click on hidden object using Selenium Python

Question

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

chromedriver = 'C:\\chromedriver.exe'
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
browser.get('http://www.example.com')
username = browser.find_element_by_id('username')
password = browser.find_element_by_id('password')
username.send_keys('username')
password.send_keys('password')
browser.find_element_by_id('submit').click()

I want to click on the download button (lower right second one).

Please help me!! The following code did not work:

browser.find_elements_by_id('//input[@value="EE"]').click()

Does browser.find_element_by_id('originator_node').click() work? — Maria Ines Parnisari
– Maria Ines Parnisari, Commented Jan 18, 2014 at 3:50
Also: you're calling find_elementS and then calling click. You probably don't want that. — Maria Ines Parnisari
– Maria Ines Parnisari, Commented Jan 18, 2014 at 3:51
@l19 that also does not work. actually when i click over that it should start downloading .tar.gz file — 2964502
– 2964502, Commented Jan 18, 2014 at 3:54
An <input type="hidden"> is not a clickable. The button you want is some other element. It's probably inside the table somewhere. — zwol
– zwol, Commented Jan 18, 2014 at 3:54
I don't know how to tell you to generate the event you want, because you have shown us the wrong part of the document. Messing around with a random <input type="hidden"> that happens to be in the same form is not going to accomplish anything. — zwol
– zwol, Commented Jan 18, 2014 at 4:04

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:03:44Z

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depend of how many similar links you have on that page try:

browser.find_element_by_partial_link_text(
                              'https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/download/').click()

for more locating options see the docs

also, note that you'll have to add the chrome equivalent of Access to file download dialog in Firefox to avoid a download dialog

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:03

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answered Jan 18, 2014 at 4:36

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2 Comments

2964502 Over a year ago

your code does not work anymore, can you provide working code? @Guy

Guy Gavriely Over a year ago

sorry, it's hard to tell without the real html, use print statements to debug the html element you are locating, you'll have to somehow find the relevant a link and click on it...

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