Python+Selenium+PhantomJs = Not clicking =( But Firefox clicks

Question

I have a problem:

Here is a code to click the link on the site in Firefox. It works. Clicks. But the same code in PhantomJS going to a page but not clicks. Please help solve the problem. thanks in advance

from selenium import webdriver
import time
browser=webdriver.PhantomJS()
browser.get('http://nnmclub.to')
time.sleep(10)
browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href,'www.marketgid.com')]").click()
time.sleep(10)
browser.quit()

How do you know that there there was no click? It's a headless browser. At least you should add browser.get_screenshot_as_file(path_to_file) to check whether page changed or not — Andersson
– Andersson, Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 9:05
I missed this line in the code. I use it. With "browser.get_screenshot" and I know that he is not clicked. Just loaded page, but not completed following the link. — Andrew Foxis
– Andrew Foxis, Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 9:14

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-16 09:17:51Z

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The link that you're trying to click has attribute target="_blank" which means that this link should be opened in new tab (window). To see that it actually clicked you should try to switch to that new window with following code:

from selenium import webdriver
import time

browser=webdriver.PhantomJS()
browser.get('http://nnmclub.to')
current = browser.window_handles[0]
time.sleep(10)
browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href,'www.marketgid.com')]").click()
time.sleep(10)
newWindow = [window for window in browser.window_handles if window != current][0]
browser.switch_to.window(newWindow)
browser.get_screenshot_as_file(path_to_file)
browser.quit()

answered Jan 16, 2017 at 9:17

Andersson

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6 Comments

Andersson Over a year ago

Welcome. Mark this answer as "Accepted" if it solved your problem

Andrew Foxis Over a year ago

Andersson, Thank you! One more question. Tell me please. How to make it work through a proxy in PhantomJS in the script?

Andersson Over a year ago

Check this stackoverflow.com/questions/17082425/…

Andrew Foxis Over a year ago

Thank you! I made this worked with: service_args = [ '--proxy=78.23.244.145:80', '--proxy-type=http', ] driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=service_args)

Andrew Foxis Over a year ago

Can i use list proxy? That there was a list of proxies and the script is worked on all proxies in the list?

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