How to wait and get the status of web element using selenium webdriver and python

Question

I am trying to check the status of <td> element which has status change from "Running" to "Success". The status change might take around 1 minute or for every few seconds i need to retry checking the status of element. Can someone help me how to achieve this , following is the html structure and snippet that i am trying.

Running

<tbody id="workflows">
<tr id="row8ff2244a64f3e7180164ff637c574d24" class="selected">
<td><span class="wf-status running" id="status8ff2244a64f3e7180164ff637c574d24">Running</span></td>
<td>Copy of Discovery v4madhu-test3-automate</td>
<td>03 Aug 16:14</td>
<td>autotest</td>
<td>dmatarget14.hpeswlab.net</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>

Success

<tbody id="workflows">
<tr id="row8ff2244a64f3e7180164ff637c574d24" class="selected">
<td><span class="wf-status wfsuccess" id="status8ff2244a64f3e7180164ff637c574d24">Success</span></td>
<td>Copy of Discovery v4madhu-test3-automate</td>
<td>03 Aug 16:14</td>
<td>autotest</td>
<td>dmatarget14.hpeswlab.net</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>

sample code

timeout = 60
maxtime = time.time() + timeout
result = None
while result is "SUCCESS":
    try:
        # connect
        result = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//td[contains,"dmatarget14.hpeswlab.net"] and td[contains,"Success"]/ancestor::tr')
        time.sleep(5)
    except:
        if time.time() > maxtime:
            raise Exception

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-03 13:30:34Z

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You can apply below solution:

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

timeout = 60

WebDriverWait(driver, timeout).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//tbody[@id="workflows"]//td[.="Success"]')))

This code should allow you to wait up to 60 seconds and return True once td with text Success appeared in DOM or TimeoutException in case no element appeared after 60 seconds passed

answered Aug 3, 2018 at 13:30

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Metareven Over a year ago

This, but I would use a css-selector instead of an xpath-selector to make the selector easier to handle and more readable. The OP uses xpath though, so I understand why you use xpath in the answer as well

Andersson Over a year ago

CSS selector (in Selenium) does not allow you to locate element by its text content. If OP wants to wait for "Success" I thought it would better to use this selector. But there might be a lot of other options..

Metareven Over a year ago

The td-element changes class from running to wfsuccess which imo is a more robust selector than looking at the text, but yeah I understand what you mean. The css-selector would be something like "td.wfsuccess", or even better "#status8ff2244a64f3e7180164ff637c574d24.wfsuccess" even though the ID looks auto-generated (which I consider a code smell)

Auto-learner Over a year ago

@Andersson my td is unique (<td>dmatarget14.hpeswlab.net</td> ) for every tr . Can you please help with correct XPATH expression

Andersson Over a year ago

//tbody[@id="workflows"]//td[.="Success" and following-sibling::td[.="dmatarget14.hpeswlab.net"]]

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Hamza Torjmen · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-03 13:31:24Z

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You can try this code :

WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//td[contains,"dmatarget14.hpeswlab.net"] and td[contains,"Success"]/ancestor::tr'))

answered Aug 3, 2018 at 13:31

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-03 13:59:25Z

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To validate the status of the <td> element to change the text from Running to Success you can use either of the following solutions:

text_to_be_present_in_element and CSS_SELECTOR:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.text_to_be_present_in_element((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "tbody#workflows>tr.selected>td>span.wf-status.wfsuccess"), "Success"))

text_to_be_present_in_element_value and CSS_SELECTOR:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.text_to_be_present_in_element_value((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "tbody#workflows>tr.selected>td>span.wf-status.wfsuccess"), "Success"))

answered Aug 3, 2018 at 13:59

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