python selenium click on button without Id and name

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I have one button, and I want to click on this button , I do

login_form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div/h1/div[1]").click();

my code :

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://www.textdet.com/')

e = driver.find_element_by_id("imagefile")                  
e.send_keys("/home/brm17/Desktop/ProjetFinDetude/image.png")  
login_form = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div/h1/div[1]").click();

But I get:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: /html/body/div/h1/div[1]

how to click on button Download bounding boxes on python by selenium , the html

<h1 style="position: relative"><a href="/">Scene Text Detection Demos</a>

        <div aria-label="..." role="group" class="btn-group" style="position: absolute; bottom: 10px; right: 0px;">
            <!--<button id="toggle_text_propoals" type="button" class="btn btn-success btn-sm">Show text proposals</button>-->
            <a href="download_bboxes/acdb4bb9-8b73-4020-bfe5-737316033e5e" type="button" class="btn btn-success btn-sm">Download bounding boxes</a>
        </div>

      </h1>

Guy · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-10 06:36:25Z

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The button is in <a> tag, not <div> tag. You also have only one <div> so div[1] is invalid. You can search by the text

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

button = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//a[contains(., "Download bounding boxes")]')))
button.click();

Or by class since you have only one button so class btn should be unique.

driver.find_element_by_class_name('btn').click(); # or 'btn-success' or 'btn-sm'

By the way, click() doesn't return anything, you can't assign it to login_form.

edited May 10, 2017 at 6:36

answered May 10, 2017 at 5:48

Guy

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Brahimce Over a year ago

Error

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: //a[contains(., "Download bounding boxes")]

Brahimce Over a year ago

problem :` button = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//a[contains(., "Download bounding boxes")]'))) NameError: name 'WebDriverWait' is not defined`

Guy Over a year ago

@Brahimce Did you add the imports?

Brahimce Over a year ago

an other error ` button = WebDriverWait(driver,5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//a[contains(., "Download bounding boxes")]'))) NameError: name 'By' is not defined `

Brahimce Over a year ago

I want to click button "Download bounding boxes" after the load of page

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Viktor · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-24 16:05:00Z

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The button is under an <a> tag so we write code for Xpath:

 driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[. = 'Download bounding boxes']").click()

so it finds the text is "Download bounding boxes" on the website and clicks on it. In the code above // a is written because the button was inside the <a> tag we can write //span,//div as well if the code was under a span or divtag.

edited Aug 24, 2019 at 16:05

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