I have a similar question that's being worked, but I made an error and I don't think editing the other question makes sense as it requires a complete rewrite and would make the original question (and answers) nonsensical. Apologies for the confusion, I am new to this.
I am trying to automate downloading of files from a website using Selenium and Python. I need to make several clicks on different areas of the page in order to kick off the download process.
In my other question I proclaim that I was able to expose the choices in the dropdown menu, but that is not true. I'm not sure why I thought that. So, I need to expose the menu choices first (then I can figure out how to select them - which the other question addresses).
Here is the HTML for the dropdown. I am trying to do the initial click on this dropdown, to expose the choices. There are four choices under it, constructed using li class (not shown here but I can add them if it helps).
<div class="SLP-dropdown SLP-dropdown-placement-bottomLeft" data-qa="SLP-dropdown" style="left: 429px; top: 436px; width: 117px;">
<ul class="SLP-dropdown-menu SLP-dropdown-menu-root SLP-dropdown-menu-vertical" role-“menu" tabindex="0">
My code is as follows:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://sample.url")
#this is the long wait to allow time to log in
driver.implicitly_wait(50)
#this selects the checkbox to choose all listed documents. This works correctly.
driver.find_element(By.ID, "SLP-input").click()
#wait for menu to be ready
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
#this is the attempt to display the choices in the dropdown menu. This click is what is not working, even though the dropdown is ready to be clicked. This dropdown will let me download the documents selected by the checkbox above.
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='SLP-dropdown-menu']").click()
Here is the error message:
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NoSuchElementException Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[2], line 26
23 driver.implicitly_wait(5)
25 #this is the attempt to display the choices in the Download menu. This click is what is not working, even though the dropdown is ready to be clicked
---> 26 driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='SLP-dropdown-menu']").click()
File ~\AppData\Local\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py:926, in WebDriver.find_element(self, by, value)
923 raise NoSuchElementException(f"Cannot locate relative element with: {by.root}")
924 return elements[0]
--> 926 return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {"using": by, "value": value})["value"]
File ~\AppData\Local\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py:458, in WebDriver.execute(self, driver_command, params)
455 response = cast(RemoteConnection, self.command_executor).execute(driver_command, params)
457 if response:
--> 458 self.error_handler.check_response(response)
459 response["value"] = self._unwrap_value(response.get("value", None))
460 return response
File ~\AppData\Local\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py:232, in ErrorHandler.check_response(self, response)
230 alert_text = value["alert"].get("text")
231 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace, alert_text) # type: ignore[call-arg] # mypy is not smart enough here
--> 232 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//ul[@class='SLP-dropdown-menu']"}
(Session info: chrome=143.0.7499.41); For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors#nosuchelementexception
Stacktrace:
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