在 Win 10 系统上面对 selenium webdriver 的挑战

Question

I am trying to automate login on a website using selenium. (Windows 10 64 bit os)

Using the below code I am able to open a link, But once webpage loads the get cmd does not release my python interpreter next cmd:

browser.find_element_by_class_name('gb_g').click()

does not run.

I tried to open google.com but the issue is same, I tried different browser it works but my project URL only works with internet explorer.

I have tried with both 64 & 32-bit driver version of internet explorer

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

link = 'https://www.google.com/'
browser = webdriver.Ie(executable_path='S:\work\Automation\Elog\IEDriverServer.exe')
browser.get(link)
browser.find_element_by_class_name('gb_g').click()

Answer 1

You need to consider a few things:

• If your use case is to use internet-explorer you need to use IEDriverServer.exe through selenium.webdriver.ie.webdriver.WebDriver() Class as follows:

   webdriver.Ie(executable_path=r'S:\\path\\to\\IEDriverServer.exe')

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To click() on the element with text as Gmail you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies :

• Using LINK_TEXT :

   from selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver.Ie(executable_path=r'S:\\work\\Automation\\Elog\\IEDriverServer.exe') browser.get("https://www.google.com/") WebDriverWait(browser,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Gmail"))).click()

• Using CSS_SELECTOR :

   from selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver.Ie(executable_path=r'S:\\work\\Automation\\Elog\\IEDriverServer.exe') browser.get("https://www.google.com/") WebDriverWait(browser,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"a.gb_g[href*='com/mail/?tab']"))).click()

• Using XPATH :

   from selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver.Ie(executable_path=r'S:\\work\\Automation\\Elog\\IEDriverServer.exe') browser.get("https://www.google.com/") WebDriverWait(browser,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//a[text()='Gmail']"))).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

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Update (from @rahuldesai's comment)

With the above mentioned configurations and using the 32 bit IEDriverServer binary some how the issue gets fixed.