trying to find xpath to automate python/selenium

Question

I am trying to automate the fronttend website for the company I work for, but I am having problem trying to find this xpath, when I run the test case in pyhton I get the following :

"Selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div/lc-app/lc-auth-app/top-menu-bar/div/div[2]/top-menu-bar-right-section/div/top-menu-bar-right-section-drop/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/button/span "}"

********THIS is the xpath i currently have, see below please********

 *"/html/body/div/lc-app/lc-auth-app/top-menu-bar/div/div[2]/top-menu-bar-right-section/div/top-menu-bar-right-section-drop/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/button/span"*

can I find this specific xpath? I have attached the pic of what Im trying to find.. the "activity" path, I need to be specific, but I cant get it to work activity xpath

for some reason that didn't work, still getting the same error message :( — Yordani2031
– Yordani2031, Commented Oct 2, 2019 at 14:19
Did you try the WebDriverWait option? Also check if element available inside any iframe? — KunduK
– KunduK, Commented Oct 2, 2019 at 14:26

KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-02 13:34:50Z

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Try the following Xpath.

//button[@class='top-menu-drop-link']/span[text()='Activity']

Python code:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='top-menu-drop-link']/span[text()='Activity']").click()

However it is best practice to use WebDriverWait And element_to_be_clickable()

WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[@class='top-menu-drop-link']/span[text()='Activity']"))).click()

Note: To execute WebDriverWait you need to import followings.

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

answered Oct 2, 2019 at 13:34

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CEH Over a year ago

Great answer. Always advisable to use relative XPath notation over absolute.

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