Selenium not able to click on Get Data button on using Python

Question

I am scraping data from this website . The element is below and geckodriver

<img class="getdata-button" style="float:right;" src="/common/images/btn-get-data.gif" id="get" onclick="document.getElementById('submitMe').click()">

but can't get selenium to click it tried even xpath, id but not luck is there any fix or work around to get it done?

Answer 1

To click on the element Get Data you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using css_selector:

  driver.find_element_by_css_selector("img.getdata-button#get").click()
  

• Using xpath:

  driver.find_element_by_xpath("//img[@class='getdata-button' and @id='get']").click()
  

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Ideally, to click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "img.getdata-button#get"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//img[@class='getdata-button' and @id='get']"))).click()
  

• Note: You have to add the following imports :

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