如何查找没有 id 的元素 selenium python

Question

My goal: is to automate a boring task on github

What: I want to click on "add file" and than "create new file"

I am not sure how to get the element without an id

Answer 1

If no id or the element has dynamic id, use XPATH. Using class is not ideal, since the class will possibly reused by many other elements.

In this case, use this XPATH: //summary[.//span[contains(text(),"Add file")]]

Best practice: use fluent wait

WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(
        EC.visibility_of_element_located(
                (By.XPATH, '//summary[.//span[contains(text(),"Add file")]]')
        ))

Read docs about explicit/fluent wait: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html#explicit-waits

Answer 2

You could try driver.find_element_by_xpath("[xpath goes here]")

If you want to read more, here are the official docs for locating elements.

Answer 3

from selenium import webdirver

#define your executable path 
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable path="  ") 
browser.get("**")
browser.find_element_by_xpath("put your copied xpath here")