How can I "click" download button on selenium in python

Question

I want to download user data on Google analytics by using crawler so I write some code using selenium. However, I cannot click the "export" button. It always shows the error "no such element". I tried to use find_element_by_xpath, by_name and by_id. I upload inspect of GA page below.

I TRIED:

 driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='download-link']").click()
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ID-activity-userActivityTable"]/div/div[2]/span[6]/button')
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@class='_GAD.W_DECORATE_ELEMENT.C_USER_ACTIVITY_TABLE_CONTROL_ITEM_DOWNLOAD']')

Python Code:

from selenium import webdriver
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('/Users/parkjunhong/Downloads/chromedriver')
driver.implicitly_wait(3)
usrid = '1021'
url = 'https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#/report/app-visitors-user-activity/a113876882w169675624p197020837/_u.date00=20190703&_u.date01=20190906&_r.userId='+usrid+'&_r.userListReportStates=%3F_u.date00=20190703%2526_u.date01=20190906%2526explorer- 
table.plotKeys=%5B%5D%2526explorer-table.rowStart=0%2526explorer- 
table.rowCount=1000&_r.userListReportId=app-visitors-user-id'
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_name('identifier').send_keys('ID')
idlogin = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="identifierNext"]/span/span')
idlogin.click()

driver.find_element_by_name('password').send_keys('PASSWD')
element = driver.find_element_by_id('passwordNext')
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)
#login
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='download-link']").click()
#click the download button

ERROR:

Message: no such element: Unable to locate element

inspection of GA

Or Can You Please Give Me Full inspect picture so i can check — Hamza Lachi
– Hamza Lachi, Commented Sep 14, 2019 at 10:53
@HamzaLachi I really appreciate your attention. I upload more inspect picture. — Panda6515
– Panda6515, Commented Sep 14, 2019 at 12:13

GregK · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-14 12:35:10Z

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your click element is in an iFrame (iFrame id="galaxyIframe" ...). Therefore, you need to tell the driver to switch from the "main" page to said iFrame. If you add this line of code after your #login it should work: driver.switch_to.frame(galaxyIframe)

(If the frame did not have a name, you would use: iframe = driver.find_element_by_xpath("xpath-to-frame") and then driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)

To get back to your default frame, use: driver.switch_to.default_content()

Crawling GA is generally a pain. Not just because you have these iFrames everywhere. Apart from that, I would recommend looking into puppeteer, the new kid on the crawler block. Even though the prospect of switching to javascript from python may be daunting, it is worth it! Once you get into it, selenium will have felt super clunky.

answered Sep 14, 2019 at 12:35

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Panda6515 Over a year ago

Im really appreciate for your help. It is work! I really spend a lot of time into this problem. Again, really thanks for your help!

Trenton McKinney · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-14 13:47:15Z

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You can try with the text:

If you want to click on 'Export'-

//button[contains(text(),'Export')]

edited Sep 14, 2019 at 13:47

Trenton McKinney

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answered Sep 14, 2019 at 9:38

AMITESH SRIVASTAVA

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Panda6515 Over a year ago

I already tried but it still show same error... thanks for reply

AMITESH SRIVASTAVA Over a year ago

yeah sure, please go ahead, the time i replied the dom was partial.

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