Selenium located the element but it fails to click on it

Question

So I was trying to get the mp4 url from the video url. I tried to locate the div and click on it but it failed to even locate it. So I tried locating the svg inside it and located it successfully but whenever I try to click on it try to get the requests made by the website I don't get the requests made and the element does not get clicked. Whenever I try not to click it I get the requests made but when I try to click I only get errors and stack trace-

The Code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from seleniumwire import webdriver  # Import from
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

#Chrome Stuff
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

#All the driver Stuff
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
# driver.get("https://youtube.com")
url = 'https://fembed-hd.com/v/l364xun6eeqrx67'
driver.get(url)
# driver.implicitly_wait(0.5)

# Clicking...
body = driver.find_element(by=By.TAG_NAME, value='body')
body.click()
parent = driver.window_handles[0]
driver.switch_to.window(parent)

body.click()
parent = driver.window_handles[0]
driver.switch_to.window(parent)

# BTN Stuff
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
btnplay = driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "svg")
print(btnplay)
btnplay.click()

driver.implicitly_wait(2)
# Access requests via the `requests` attribute
for request in driver.requests:
    if request.response:
        print(request.url)
driver.quit()
driver.close()

The console with click method -

<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="fb0fadcbd64dc589211b0f3ef7052618", element="0f996a92-3f40-497e-a7f1-ff7dedb5e945")>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 38, in <module>
    btnplay.click()
  File "/home/runner/justforfun/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 81, in click
    self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)
  File "/home/runner/justforfun/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 710, in _execute
    return self._parent.execute(command, params)
  File "/home/runner/justforfun/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 425, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/home/runner/justforfun/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 247, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable
  (Session info: headless chrome=97.0.4692.71)
Stacktrace:
#0 0x55691c752f23 <unknown>
#1 0x55691c21d6cf <unknown>
#2 0x55691c254a27 <unknown>
#3 0x55691c248899 <unknown>
#4 0x55691c271182 <unknown>
#5 0x55691c248163 <unknown>
#6 0x55691c27128e <unknown>
#7 0x55691c2843db <unknown>
#8 0x55691c271073 <unknown>
#9 0x55691c246bca <unknown>
#10 0x55691c247c95 <unknown>
#11 0x55691c78273d <unknown>
#12 0x55691c798a40 <unknown>
#13 0x55691c784435 <unknown>
#14 0x55691c799465 <unknown>
#15 0x55691c777e6f <unknown>
#16 0x55691c7b42d8 <unknown>
#17 0x55691c7b4458 <unknown>
#18 0x55691c7cf1fd <unknown>
#19 0x7f779ae0cd40 <unknown>

As you can see I don't even get the requests made. I need the requests made after clicking the svg play button. Please help Me. I will be grateful and glad for hearing the answers.

Prophet · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-22 17:55:36Z

1

Well, after clicking on some element there and getting back to the original page I could click on svg element to start play the video.
The issues here are: To click on correct element and to locate elements with special tag names like svg.
Once the ad is opened we can play the video. It can be done not by clicking the svg (picture) element only.
So, my code is:

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

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()
url = 'https://fembed-hd.com/v/l364xun6eeqrx67'
driver.get(url)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)

wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[contains(@style,'fixed')]"))).click()

parent = driver.window_handles[0]
driver.switch_to.window(parent)

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[name()='svg']").click()

answered Mar 22, 2022 at 17:55

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7 Comments

Abhinav Singh Over a year ago

How can I wait to print the .mp4 request? Because after the click I want to get the mp4 request??

Abhinav Singh Over a year ago

And I have one more doubt that selenium is not waiting for the video to be played. That's why I don't get the mp4 request. How can I fix that? Any help would be apreciated.

Prophet Over a year ago

I'm not sure I know how to do that. Selenium deals with GUI elements, not with requests. At least this is the main Selenium feature. I can give a solution based on GUI elements to see the video started playing. Please open a new question for that and I will try to answer there

Abhinav Singh Over a year ago

So as you know I still have problem. I have posted the question please check me out there.

Abhinav Singh Over a year ago

The question - stackoverflow.com/questions/71634956/…

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