Click a button under a data-bind written by JavaScript using Python Webdriver

Question

I'm able to login to a website but I couldn't figure it out how to click "Download as CSV". I've tried XPATH and CSS Selector.

Here is the picture of the HTML.

The dashboard is combined with many widgets. Don't know if that would impact anything. Please let me know if you need more information. Thank you : )

Below is code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
import time

#### location of chrome 
driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'F:\User\Downloads\chromedriver.exe')

#### log in website 1
driver.get('https://www.yardipca.com/39444siteminderlive/')

### 1st door ( login& password)
name_1st = driver.find_element_by_name('USER')
name_1st.clear()
name_1st.send_keys('my_account')

passowrd_1st = driver.find_element_by_name('PASSWORD')
passowrd_1st.clear()
passowrd_1st.send_keys('my_password')

### login botton
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"/html/body/form/div/center/table[2]/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]/table/tbody/tr[8]/td[2]/input[6]"))).click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT,"P260 Live System (SAN/HOC)"))).click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="acceptButton"]'))).click()

time.sleep(10)




#### log in website 2
driver.get('https://www.yardiasptx11.com/39444p260livehoc/jsp/index.jsp')

### 2nd door ( login& password)
name_2nd = driver.find_element_by_name('userId')
name_2nd.send_keys('my_account')

passowrd_2nd = driver.find_element_by_name('password')
passowrd_2nd.send_keys('my_password')

### login botton
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//[@id="standardLoginForm"]/div[3]/button'))).click()
time.sleep(5)

### Dropdown button
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="widget_937242"]/div[1]/div[1]'))).click()

# //*[@id="widget_937242"]/div[1]/div[1]
# //*[@id="widget_937242"]/div[1]/div[1]/a
# //*[@id="widget_937242"]/div[1]/div[1]/a/span

### download file
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'#widget_937242 > div.panel-heading.ui-sortable-handle > div.btn-group.pull-right.print-hide.open > ul > li:nth-child(2) > a'))).click()



time.sleep(10)

The error popped up.

File "f:\User\Downloads\yardi.py", line 57, in

WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="widget_937242"]/div1/div1'))).click()

File "F:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 80, in until raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Please read why a screenshot of code is a bad idea. Paste the code and properly format it instead. — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented Jul 16, 2019 at 3:23

Mike · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-16 13:22:44Z

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It looks like the widget is always in the same place, I typically try clicking by using X/Y coordinates with a macro tool like AppRobotic if you're running this on Windows. If it's an issue with the page loading slowly, I usually try stopping the page load, and interacting with the page a bit, something like this should work for you:

import win32com.client
from win32com.client import Dispatch
x = win32com.client.Dispatch("AppRobotic.API")
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
# wait 20 seconds
x.Wait(20000)
# scroll down a couple of times in case page javascript is waiting for user interaction
x.Type("{DOWN}")
x.Wait(2000)
x.Type("{DOWN}")
x.Wait(2000)
# forcefully stop pageload at this point
driver.execute_script("window.stop();")
# if clicking Download as CSV button with Selenium still does not work here, use screen coordinates
x.MoveCursor(xCoord, yCoord)
x.MouseLeftClick
x.Wait(2000)

answered Jul 16, 2019 at 13:22

Mike

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3 Comments

Oliver Wu Over a year ago

thx for your reply. How do I find the coordinates of a certain tag?

Mike Over a year ago

I grab XY coords with the UI Item Explorer utility in AppRobotic, and typically macro programs have utilities that do this: superuser.com/questions/244267/…

Oliver Wu Over a year ago

after all the research and testing, I found there are several iframes within my website and thus once I switch the specific iframe, I'm able to click the drop-down list : )

Oliver Wu · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-17 18:08:01Z

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It's within the iframe so I switch the iframe that I want o act on.

answered Jul 17, 2019 at 18:08

Oliver Wu

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