Python Selenium Xpath

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I'm using Xpath and having trouble pulling out what information I need from this HTML info to click this button:

[@id='domain-members']/div[@id='app']/div[@id='frameworkModule']/div[@id='header'][1]/nav[@class='navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top navbar-primary flex background']/div[@id='nav2']/ul[@class='flex no-padding height-50 list-style-none']/li[@class='dropdown dropdown-accordion nav-hover sysf-resources-module flex-1 flex']/span/a[@class='icon flex-1 flex justify-content-center align-items-center']

my code is:

folder = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@title='______']")
folder.click()

any help or resources to point me towards where I can better find the info I want would be a great help!

Can you share the actual HTML ? the one that you've shared looks like a xpath itself — cruisepandey
– cruisepandey, Commented Sep 4, 2021 at 13:22
@cruisepandey heres a snip:ibb.co/wp2b2SK Its a dropdown menu and i need to select All Files — SSerb1989
– SSerb1989, Commented Sep 4, 2021 at 13:44

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-04 14:43:58Z

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This HTML is not built using Select and options tag, so one can not use Select class from Selenium.

Instead try to click directly :-

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@href='#resources']"))).click()
time.sleep(5)
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "All Files"))).click()

Imports :

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

edited Sep 4, 2021 at 14:43

answered Sep 4, 2021 at 14:01

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SSerb1989 Over a year ago

Thank you! I have an error message now Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/Sserb/PycharmProjects/WeSnare/main.py", line 33, in <module> WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='dropdown-menu']"))).click() File "C:\Users\Sserb\PycharmProjects\WeSnare\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 80, in until raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

cruisepandey Over a year ago

Is page url public ?

SSerb1989 Over a year ago

Its not, unfortunately. Is there a specific thing i can look for for you in the HTML?

cruisepandey Over a year ago

When you manually hover on this drop down, what is the HTML code, also please give me in text format. This is the way to share in text format :- Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> then right click on the element you want to share the outer HTML - > select copy and then outer HTML

SSerb1989 Over a year ago

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