Can't click on a button using Selenium (web scrape)

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I am trying to click on this button so that I can proceed to the next page but doesn't seem to be working for me. I am trying to click on the 'Search for an inspection report' button.

This is the xpath for this source. //[@id="btnOK"] . And so I was trying to use driver.find_element_by_xpath('//[@id="btnOK"]').click() and it gives me an error saying unable to locate element.

Here is the link to the site. https://www.halton.ca/For-Residents/Food-Safety/Dinewise/Search-Directory-of-Food-Premises-Dinewise

Any help would be great.

Pls check whether my code works for u.

Sushil
– Sushil

2020-10-01 14:36:41 +00:00
Commented Oct 1, 2020 at 14:36 — Sushil
– Sushil, Commented Oct 1, 2020 at 14:36

Sushil · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-01 14:31:42Z

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It is because the button is present within a different iframe. In order to click that button, u have to switch focus to that iframe. This is how u do it:

iframe = driver.find_element_by_id("iframe-form")

driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)

btn = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="btnOK"]')

btn.click()

Plus, another thing to note is that the xpath u have provided is wrong. U have missed a * in the xpath. The right xpath is '//*[@id="btnOK"]'.

Complete code:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

driver.get('https://www.halton.ca/For-Residents/Food-Safety/Dinewise/Search-Directory-of-Food-Premises-Dinewise')

iframe = driver.find_element_by_id("iframe-form")

driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)

btn = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="btnOK"]')

btn.click()

Hope that this helps.

answered Oct 1, 2020 at 14:31

Sushil

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Alexandra Dudkina · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-01 14:44:09Z

Alternative solution using webdriver wait:

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

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
#chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
wd = webdriver.Chrome('<PATH_TO_CHROMEDRIVER>', options=chrome_options)

# load page via selenium
wd.get("https://www.halton.ca/For-Residents/Food-Safety/Dinewise/Search-Directory-of-Food-Premises-Dinewise")
# wait for iframe, switch to it
frame = WebDriverWait(wd, 30).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.ID,"iframe-form")))
# wait for button, scroll to it, click it
btn = WebDriverWait(wd, 30).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'btnOK')))
wd.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", btn)
wd.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", btn)

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