Find element by XPATH using Selenium with Python

Question

I am trying to click various buttons on a page using Selenium (in combination with PhantomJS). The html of the button looks like this:

<button class="btn btn-default btn-kudo btn-xs empty js-add-kudo" data-
entry="["Activity",1171944030]" str-on="click" str-trackable-
id="CgwIBTIICN7k6a4EGAESBAoCCAc=" str-type="kudos" title="Give Kudos">
<span class="app-icon icon-dark icon-kudo icon-sm">Kudos</span>
<span class="count count-kudos" data-kudo-count="0">0</span>
</button>

I want to click the buttons with certain Activity IDs that I define earlier in my script. Therefore, I would like to find the button using the XPATH of the data-entry. I tried the following:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@data-entry="["Activity",1171944030]"]')

and

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@data-entry="[&quot;Activity&quot;,1171944030]"]')

And a few variations putting the quotation marks in different positions, but none of them is able to find the element. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

Guy · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-07 09:04:52Z

1

You can avoid the quotation marks problem if you use contains

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[contains(@data-entry, 'Activity')][contains(@data-entry, '1171944030')]");

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 9:04

Guy

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