Python. Selenium misses element

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I need to get feedbacks from site

Feedbacks are inside <iframe> tag, so I go to iframe, and i get feedbacks, from the first page, but then i need change page using button:

Selenium can find it by class or xpath, but when it tries to click it returns error

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Element <iframe scrolling="no" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="100%" height="1943" src="//feedback.aliexpress.com/display/productEvaluation.htm?productId=1000003578539&amp;ownerMemberId=825321852&amp;companyId=&amp;memberType=seller&amp;startValidDate=" cd_frame_id_="9dbc34cc8793cee8fbcab5180296b0d6"></iframe> is not clickable at point (1001, 582). Other element would receive the click: <span data-role="show" class="show-history">...</span>
  (Session info: chrome=56.0.2924.87)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.28.455520 (cc17746adff54984afff480136733114c6b3704b),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)

Here is my code:

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)

close_popup = driver.find_element_by_class_name('close-layer')
close_popup.click()

tab_feedback = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="j-product-tabbed-pane"]/ul/li[2]')
tab_feedback.click()

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//iframe[starts-with(@src, "//feedback.aliexpress.com/display/productEvaluation.htm")]'))

text_feedbacks = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('buyer-feedback')

next = driver.find_element_by_class_name('ui-pagination-next ui-goto-page')
next.click()

I thought that maybe selenium too fast, I tried to wait and loop but still can't get next page of feedbacks. Also i tried to get this element using xpath:

next = driver.find_element_by_xpath( "//div[@class='ui-pagination-navi util-left']/a[@class='ui-goto-page']")

But nothing helps.

How can i get next page of feedbacks using selenium? Why other element receives click?

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31 09:04:06Z

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Try to use below code:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//iframe[starts-with(@src, "//feedback.aliexpress.com/display/productEvaluation.htm")]'))

text_feedbacks = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('buyer-feedback')
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN)
next = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Next")
next.click()
driver.switch_to.default_content()

The problem is that span "Recently viewed" element overlaps required button and so intercepts the click... You might need just to scroll page a little (in provided code- by simulating Page Down button pressing)

Note that you should switch back from iframe after clicking "Next" button

edited Mar 31, 2017 at 9:04

answered Mar 31, 2017 at 8:42

Andersson

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Viktor Demin Over a year ago

It finds element, but when click returns same error </iframe> is not clickable at point (1009, 590). Other element would receive the click: <span data-role="show" class="show-history">...</span>

Andersson Over a year ago

Yeap, I got it now... Added little hack ;) Try updated.

Viktor Demin Over a year ago

It is working, thanks! What was the reason of problem?Why other element received click?

Andersson Over a year ago

I've added clarification to answer. This is because of "Recently viewed" tab in right bottom corner of page which covers required button

Anh N. Nguyen · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31 08:22:19Z

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You need to set delay for each tab_feedback.click() because the page has not been loaded fully.

import time
time.sleep(5)

answered Mar 31, 2017 at 8:22

Anh N. Nguyen

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