How to click the page link with selenium python

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My error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"entrar"}

I have the html below:

<a role="menuitem" href="/login" class="_yce4s5">
  <div class="_hgs47m">
     <div class="_10ejfg4u">
       <div>
         Entrar
       </div>
     </div>
 </div> 
</a>

I click on the then link entrar, the following code in selenium with python:

driver.implicitly_wait(10)
element = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Entrar')
element.click()

But It raises this NoSuchElementException.

Because your text is in the <div> tag which contains no link. You would want to search for the <a tag above through another method (xpath/class/bs4/requests) — The BrownBatman
– The BrownBatman, Commented Dec 13, 2018 at 22:58
Do what @The BrownBatman says. Or you can find the <div> as you are currently doing and then go get the <a> tag by going to a parent node twice. — Roi
– Roi, Commented Dec 13, 2018 at 23:00

Evgenii Bazhanov · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-13 23:02:14Z

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Did you try to use Upper case for the first letter? like 'Entrar' instead of 'entrar'

answered Dec 13, 2018 at 23:02

Evgenii Bazhanov

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Davi Luis Over a year ago

Thank you but it is not the solution.

Daniel Manta Over a year ago

@DaviLuis, try driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('Entrar'). The anchor tag contains other tags apart from the text.

Mike C. · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-13 23:07:29Z

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You might try driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('entrar') because there is probably other text in your link. I like getting element by xpath. It's pretty easy. If you have Firefox just get the add-on xpath finder to find the xpath to any element on a web page.

answered Dec 13, 2018 at 23:07

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-14 01:38:16Z

To click the page link with text as Entrar as the element is a dynamic element ou have to induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable and you can use either of the following solution:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[role='menuitem'][href='/login'] > div > div > div"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@role='menuitem' and @href='/login']//div[normalize-space()='Entrar']"))).click()

Note : You have to add the following imports :

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

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