How to click language/region link using Selenium Webdriver and Python?

Question

I'm trying to just click 'North America' and 'US', at the following URL: http://www.nike.com/language_tunnel

Here are the steps I have were working for a few weeks, but now seem to not work.

# choose country/region
driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//button[@type='button'])[2]").click()
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "li.US a"))).click()

The first command now seems to open South America and then it stalls because it is looking for US, but there is no US link under South America. I believe I need to change the xPath, but I'm not sure what is the correct xpath (and would prefer to not use xpath at all).

Answer 1

As you can see, locating the element by index in this case is not quite reliable. Things like the order of elements tend to change frequently. Instead, use the data-region attribute, for instance:

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button[data-region=n-america]").click()

Answer 2

Try to use following code:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[@data-region="n-america"]').click()
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "li  a[data-country="US"]"))).click()

Answer 3

If you might want to change the country name tomorrow, you can use the following snippet :

countryToSearch = "North America"  // you can change this accordingly, rest should work fine
for countries in driver.find_elements_by_xpath("(//button[@type='button'])"):
    countryName = countries.text
    if countryName == countryToSearch:
        countries.click()
        break