python selenium click on button xpath error

Question

I am trying to scrape an airbnb listing. I cant figure out a way to get the full list of amenities other than clicking on "more". I am using selenium to simulate the click, but it does nt seem to work.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

url = 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4660676'
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(url)
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@class="expandable-trigger-more"]')
actions.click(elem).perform()

What do you mean by "doesn't seem to work"? What happens? Nothing? Do you get an error? — John Gordon
– John Gordon, Commented Jan 22, 2016 at 16:10
you haven't define your actions instance of ActionChains so line actions.click(elem).perform() have no sense — Andersson
– Andersson, Commented Jan 22, 2016 at 20:31

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-22 16:12:52Z

9

The XPath itself is correct, but you have not defined the actions:

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@class="expandable-trigger-more"]')

actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.click(elem).perform()

Note that you can simply use the WebElement's click() method instead:

elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@class="expandable-trigger-more"]')
elem.click()

Works for me.

If you are getting NoSuchElementException error, you might need to wait for the link to be clickable via WebDriverWait and element_to_be_clickable.

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

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//a[@class="expandable-trigger-more"]'))
)
element.click()

answered Jan 22, 2016 at 16:12

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alecxe Over a year ago

@Borat14 works for me, you are doing smth more than just clicking more button probably. Post the complete code you have so far. Thanks.

Borat14 Over a year ago

Thanks @alecxe, on the first methods i get this error: WebDriverException: Message: Element is not clickable at point (661.5, 10.316665649414062). Other element would receive the click: <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-large" id="sticky-md-book-it-btn"></button> on the last two methods i get "string indices must be integers"

Borat14 Over a year ago

This is the code

from selenium import webdriver   from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains    url = 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4660676'    driver = webdriver.Firefox()   driver.get(url)    elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@class="expandable-trigger-more"]')    actions = ActionChains(driver)   actions.click(elem).perform()

alecxe Over a year ago

@Borat14 the "string indexes must be integers" is because of the selenium 2.49 bug, downgrade to 2.48: pip install selenium==2.48 (stackoverflow.com/questions/34969006/…).

Mohsin Ashraf · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-01 18:13:49Z

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A very simple way of achieving this is given below

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@class="expandable-trigger-more"]').click()

It works for me hope will work for you as well.

answered Sep 1, 2018 at 18:13

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