Not able to download the file from websiteusing selenium python

Question

I am trying to download the daily report from the website NSE-India using selenium & python.

Approach to download the daily report

• Website loads with no data
• After X time,page is loaded with report information
• Once the page is loaded with report data,"table[@id='etfTable']" appears
• Explicit wait is added in the code,to wait till the "table[@id='etfTable']" loads

Code for explicit wait

element=WebDriverWait(driver,50).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(By.xpath,"//table[@id='etfTable']"))

• Extract the onclick event using xpath

  downloadcsv= driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='esw-etf']/div[2]/div/div[3]/div/ul/li/a")

• Trigger the click to download the file

Full code

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC options =webdriver.ChromeOptions(); prefs={"download.default_directory":"/Volumes/Project/WebScrapper/downloadData"}; options.binary_location=r'/Applications/Google Chrome 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome' chrome_driver_binary =r'/usr/local/Caskroom/chromedriver/94.0.4606.61/chromedriver' options.add_experimental_option("prefs",prefs) driver =webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_binary,options=options) try: #driver.implicity_wait(10) driver.get('https://www.nseindia.com/market-data/exchange-traded-funds-etf') element =WebDriverWait(driver,50).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(By.xpath,"//table[@id='etfTable']")) downloadcsv= driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='esw-etf']/div[2]/div/div[3]/div/ul/li/a") print(downloadcsv) downloadcsv.click() time.sleep(5) driver.close() except: print("Invalid URL")

Issue i am facing.

• The page is keeps on loading but when launched without selenium the daily report is getting loaded

Normal Loading via Selenium

• Not able to download the daily report

Answer 1

There are some syntax error in the program. Like semi-colon in few lines and while finding element using WebDriverWait , brackets are missing .

Try like below and confirm.

Can use Javascript to click on that element.

driver.get("https://www.nseindia.com/market-data/exchange-traded-funds-etf")
element =WebDriverWait(driver,50).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//table[@id='etfTable']/tbody/tr[2]")))


downloadcsv= driver.find_element_by_xpath("//img[@title='csv']/parent::a")
print(downloadcsv)
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();",downloadcsv)

Answer 2

It's not an issue with your code it's an issue with the website. I checked it most of the time it did not allow me to click on the CSV file. instead of downloading the CSV file, you can scrape the table.

# for direct to the page delete cookies is very important otherwise it will deny the access

browser.delete_all_cookies()
browser.get('https://www.nseindia.com/market-data/exchange-traded-funds-etf')
sleep(5)

soup = BeautifulSoup(browser.page_source, 'html.parser')
# scrape the table from the soup