Selenium python - element is not clickable at point

Question

I'm trying to get follow button text in instagram post page (page example - https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2C8pQwO8X/)

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.set_window_size(1024, 768)
driver.get('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/')
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
username_field = driver.find_element_by_name('username')
password_field = driver.find_element_by_name('password')
username_field.send_keys(user_login)
password_field.send_keys(user_pass)
password_field.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
time.sleep(5)


def find_tag():
    search_field = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//nav/div/div/div/div/input')
    search_field.send_keys('#moscow')
    time.sleep(1)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="react-root"]/section/nav/div/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/a[1]').click()


def follow_from_tag():
    top_20_posts = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//article/div/div/div/a')
    for post in top_20_posts:
        post.click()
        time.sleep(1.5)
        print(driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/article/header/span/button').text)



find_tag()
time.sleep(2)
follow_from_tag()

but got an error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (511, 415). Other element would receive the click: <a class="_c2kdw" href="javascript:;" role="button" data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.1.$https=2//scontent-arn2-1=1cdninstagram=1com/t51=12885-15/e15/12479233_260398184295103_1013244176_n=1jpg?ig_cache_key=0MTIyMjM0Nzg4MzM1MDYzNTQzOA%3D%3D=12.0.0.1"></a>
  (Session info: chrome=49.0.2623.110)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248307,platform=Mac OS X 10.10.5 x86_64

what i'm doing wrong?

seems like another element is overlapping the element you want to click. at which line you get the error? — fabdurso, Apr 06 '16 at 11:32
File "/Users/kr/PycharmProjects/education_py/instagram.py", line 24, in follow_from_tag post.click() — Konstantin Rusanov, Apr 06 '16 at 11:33
take a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19763087/1033737 — fabdurso, Apr 06 '16 at 11:42
I ran your code and `//article/div/div/div/a` seems incorrect, what are you trying to get? — Padraic Cunningham, Apr 06 '16 at 11:56
if i try to click on it - driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/article/header/span/button').click() - it works, but don't return the text of this button — Konstantin Rusanov, Apr 06 '16 at 12:00
@PadraicCunningham i want to get this button - https://yadi.sk/i/Jk2e3-JIqnKsg - text, to use it in IF ELSE to check account which i already followed. — Konstantin Rusanov, Apr 06 '16 at 12:37

Padraic Cunningham · Answer 1 · 2016-04-06T13:26:11.597

This gets what you want:

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

def wait(dr, x):
    element = WebDriverWait(dr, 5).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, x))
    )
    return element

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.set_window_size(1024, 768)
driver.get('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/')
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
username_field = driver.find_element_by_name('username')
password_field = driver.find_element_by_name('password')
username_field.send_keys("user")
password_field.send_keys("pass")
password_field.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)    

def find_tag():
    search_field = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//nav/div/div/div/div/input')
    search_field.send_keys('moscow')
    wait(driver, '//*[@id="react-root"]/section/nav/div/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/a[1]').click()

def follow_from_tag():
    top_20_posts = [a.get_attribute("href") for a in
                    driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href,'?tagged=moscow')]")[:20]]
    for href in top_20_posts:
        driver.get(href)
        print(href)
        btn = wait(driver, "//button[text()='Follow']")
       # btn.click() # uncomment to follow

The output of the prints:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BD249tsxEbl/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79810>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2puxzELOu/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79790>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2jrmyP8ec/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79750>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2v9NyvzIs/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79810>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2qkcZm8cg/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79790>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2sEWzLlEF/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79750>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD25VA2vI6t/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79810>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2fRXoB1t2/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79790>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2jYlfE0Yw/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79750>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2s0PtoRP1/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79810>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2mn_QBQPK/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79790>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2zTmqM-5h/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79750>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2q6Qfqc5q/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79810>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2iivvDbiO/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79790>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2-WU2msdO/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79750>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2Qa2Rn0GV/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79810>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2ffCZDR8L/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79790>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2kqDhwywb/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79750>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2r4M7lf-h/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79810>
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2t3PTAlJC/?tagged=moscow
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement object at 0x7fa717d79790>

You might want to add error handling and use better xpaths but it gets what you need, just uncomment the btn.click() if you want to follow.

I missed you want to check the text, if you want to check the text, we can use contains with "Follow" as the word to match:

def follow_from_tag():
    top_20_posts = [a.get_attribute("href") for a in
                    driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href,'?tagged=moscow')]")[:20]]
    for href in top_20_posts:
        driver.get(href)
        print(href)
        btn = wait(driver, "//button[contains(text(),'Follow')]")
        print(btn.text)

The output now after I randomly chose one to follow:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BD23RGrkLEN/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2jrmyP8ec/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD249tsxEbl/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOWING
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2v9NyvzIs/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2qkcZm8cg/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2sEWzLlEF/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD25VA2vI6t/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2fRXoB1t2/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2s0PtoRP1/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2jYlfE0Yw/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2mn_QBQPK/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2zTmqM-5h/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2-WU2msdO/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2q6Qfqc5q/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2iivvDbiO/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD29pcrDs6o/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2Qa2Rn0GV/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2ffCZDR8L/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2kqDhwywb/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD2r4M7lf-h/?tagged=moscow
FOLLOW

So you just need an if btn.text.lower() == "follow" etc..

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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The URL you posted doesn't contain a //*[@id="react-root"]/section/nav/div/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/a[1]. But I assume that when moving the (virtual) mouse cursor from your search_field to the element you want to click, it causes some MouseOver effect on the page, in the sense that an overlay pops up or something, hiding the clickable element behind itself.

I had the same problem and solved it like this: How to avoid MouseOver on Selenium Click()

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Apr 06 '16 at 12:14

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That part does work. It brings you to `https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/moscow/`, it is on a completely different page to the url posted – Padraic Cunningham Apr 06 '16 at 12:22
Yes, that part leads me to top popular posts with tag moscow, but after i'm open each post and want to print follow button text – Konstantin Rusanov Apr 06 '16 at 12:28

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