Click on Option in Dropdown List using Python Selenium

Question

I'm trying to update the page http://stitch.embl.de//cgi/download.pl?UserId=FCCY8Z7drB9z&sessionId=QFV3kq1R2gdD via Python-Selenium (emulating action of clicking on Choose an organism -> Homo sapiens, then click on Update)

How do I execute the script?

<div style="height:3em;vertical-align:top;"><div id="organism_text_input"><script type="text/javascript">
    function toggleSpeciesFloatingDiv ()
    {
        if(document.getElementById('speciesFloatingDiv').style.visibility != "visible") {
            initiateDropDownSpeciesList();
            document.getElementById('speciesFloatingDiv').style.display = "block";
            document.getElementById('speciesFloatingDiv').style.visibility = "visible";
            document.getElementById('speciesList').focus();
        } else {
            document.getElementById('speciesFloatingDiv').style.display = "none";
            document.getElementById('speciesFloatingDiv').style.visibility = "hidden";
        }
    }
</script>

Atomium · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-14 17:29:50Z

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You can click on the selector box ->

box.click()

Then you can write the text and press enter ->

box.send_keys("Homo Sapiens")
box.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

answered Dec 14, 2020 at 17:29

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CPak Over a year ago

Sorry how do I get the box? I tried getting the box element with driver.find_element_by_id("organism_text_input") but it didn't work.

Atomium Over a year ago

@CPak There is an item with id "species_text" contained in the div with id "organism_text_input"

CPak Over a year ago

Where does Keys come from? Getting Keys is not defined error.

Chris · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-14 18:39:37Z

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

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
delay = 10

driver.get("http://stitch.embl.de//cgi/download.pl?UserId=FCCY8Z7drB9z&sessionId=QFV3kq1R2gdD")

# CLick down arrow on drop down menu

WebDriverWait(driver, delay).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="organism_text_input"]/div[1]/div/img'))).click()
# driver.find_element_by_xpath().click()
# Now that options are loaded, select "Homo sapiens" from the species list
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_id('speciesList'))
select.select_by_visible_text('Homo sapiens')

# Click the 'Select' button in the drop down menu to apply
driver.find_element_by_class_name('minibutton').click()

edited Dec 14, 2020 at 18:39

answered Dec 14, 2020 at 17:40

Chris

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CPak Over a year ago

After performing your steps and rescraping the page, I still see the original links. For instance, I expect to see 9606.protein_chemical.links.v5.0.tsv.gz . Could you extend your solution a few more steps to get the updated links? (Sorry, otherwise, I'm unable to validate whether it worked or not).

Chris Over a year ago

Perhaps the site is loading too slow, I've added an explicit wait for the drop down menu to load before proceeding. Either way the code is working as expected on my end.

CPak Over a year ago

After driver.find_element_by_class_name('minibutton').click(), how do I get the HTML of the updated page? driver.get(...)?

Chris Over a year ago

I can't write your entire project. Hopefully the answer I provided meets the requirements of the original question.

CPak Over a year ago

Haha, okay. Thanks for your help. I have already solved my own problem (see my answer). I wanted to expand on your answer for future users but that's okay.

CPak · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-14 17:59:12Z

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I can get the desired links if I add &species_text=9606 to the URL - the final URL becomes http://stitch.embl.de//cgi/download.pl?UserId=FCCY8Z7drB9z&sessionId=QFV3kq1R2gdD&species_text=9606

answered Dec 14, 2020 at 17:59

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