Selenium won't click a button with python?

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please can someone help me with this,

I can't get selenium to click a button with python. I'm on python 3.4 and using Firefox 42

the browser opens but that's all

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.speedyshare.com/")
elem = find_element_by_id_name("selectfilebox")
elem.click()

The browser opens but i get the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ro/sele.py", line 6, in <module>
    elem = find_element_by_id_name("selectfilebox")
NameError: name 'find_element_by_id_name' is not defined

This isn't a selenium problem, it's a problem with your Python imports. You need to tell Python how to find the find_element_by_id_name function. — Adam
– Adam, Commented Sep 27, 2015 at 18:30
right ok thanks, i'm sorry if I sound like a noob but did you mean elem = driver.find_element_by_name ? — booberz
– booberz, Commented Sep 27, 2015 at 18:37
Something like that. I don't know which module that function is in, I'll leave it up to you to find out. — Adam
– Adam, Commented Sep 27, 2015 at 18:42
You can take a look at the documentation section 4.1(for locating an element by id). — jlnabais
– jlnabais, Commented Sep 27, 2015 at 18:44
There is 'find_element_by_id_name()' function in python, it may be either 'find_element_by_id()' or 'find_element_by_name()'. You should use any one of these based on requirement. — Saritha G
– Saritha G, Commented Sep 28, 2015 at 4:10

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:44:25Z

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It helps to inspect driver.page_source to see the HTML as the driver sees it.

driver.get("http://www.speedyshare.com/")
content = driver.page_source
with open('/tmp/out', 'wb', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write(content)

You'll see in /tmp/out:

<frameset rows="*"><frame src="http://www30.speedyshare.com/upload_page.php" name="index31" />
</frameset>

Aha. The tag you wish to click is inside a frame. So switch to that frame first:

driver.switch_to.frame("index31")

and then you'll be able to find the element by id:

elem = driver.find_element_by_id("selectfilebox")
elem.click()

This question is essentially the same as Selenium Unable to locate element (Python) WebScraping; it's just hard to know that without first knowing the solution.

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:44

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2 Comments

booberz Over a year ago

Thanks for this, you really went in depth and it was very insightful, sorry I've took my time to reply but I wanted to get it working and not bug anyone to be spoonfed the info. I've come up with this but it's still not working.

jdeng Over a year ago

The idea of looking at page source is great.

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