How to fix this issue element not interactable Selenium Python

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I have the following line in my script code, where the XPath I got it from Selenium IDE that works fine:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//a[contains(@href, '')])[20]").click()

An automation test stops here with this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Script.py", line 65, in <module>
    driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href, '')])[20]").click()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 80, in click
    self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 633, in _execute
    return self._parent.execute(command, params)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not interactable
(Session info: chrome=74.0.3729.131)
(Driver info: chromedriver=74.0.3729.6 (255758eccf3d244491b8a1317aa76e1ce10d57e9-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#29}),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)

How to fix this issue?

Thanks for any help.

Are you scraping data or running tests for the usability of a website you are coding? The solution will be drastically different for these cases — Reedinationer
– Reedinationer, Commented May 17, 2019 at 22:17
@Reedinationer Hi, I only want to automate several steps that I need to do very often on a website and takes some time. Is not a website that I'm coding. — Ger Cas
– Ger Cas, Commented May 17, 2019 at 22:31

Reedinationer · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-17 22:38:00Z

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Seeing as you just want to scrape the data, I recommend you use this solution:

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//a[contains(@href, '')])[20]")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)

Which clicks the element via Javascript as opposed to a "natural" click that selenium uses (to try to simulate the user experience).

I answered a similar question here that links to another post on it as well.

answered May 17, 2019 at 22:38

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Ger Cas Over a year ago

Excellent. Thanks so much for your help, it works perfect!. Where can I see examples of selenium using Javascript to fix issues like this?. Until now I thougth I was working Selenium only with Python hehe, but I see that can execute more poweful options adding Javascript. Then arguments is an array? since you used arguments[0].

Reedinationer Over a year ago

@GerCas I just took that example from this guy and don't really know how to code javascript too well. From the documentation it looks like arguments will just unpack anything you feed it. So maybe driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();arguments[1].click()", element1, element2) would be valid, but I've not needed anything that complicated. Best of luck figuring it out!

aiishwin09 · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-03 23:36:40Z

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Sometimes you may need to copy Full XPATH. That was one work around I found.

answered Jan 3, 2021 at 23:36

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Rola · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-23 13:51:44Z

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I would like to share my experience on that in case someone else had same scenario.
I received same error message "Message: element not interactable".
And after like two hours of troubleshooting it turned out that there was another hidden element identified by XPATH. So, I modified my XPATH to ensure capturing targeted element only.

answered Apr 23, 2020 at 13:51

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1000 Years · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-06 07:45:44Z

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I was able to fix this issue with using full Xpath instead of x path for anyone coming here in the future I hope this will help. I think the reason for this is the element I wanted to click was wrapped by another element so it was not interactable

answered Mar 6, 2021 at 7:45

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