Selenium Python - Wait for Element to load and click on it

Question

I've been trying to figure out how to wait for an element to be loaded and then execute the click function in python.

The website I am talking about is: https://tempail.com/

As soon as I received an e-mail, I want the script to click on it and then execute further tasks.

I tried to solve this problem through the "Try/Except Function", but I always receive error messages.

Source of the site: https://i.stack.imgur.com/n2z6E.png

The problem is that the site uses generated IDs I can't use in the find_element_by function.

This is what I've tried so far: https://i.stack.imgur.com/LlN6f.png

With try, I wanted the script to wait until the site received the mail. As soon as the mail is in the inbox, it should click the link/the mail and open it.

Apart from that, I looked up for more solutions, but nothing really helped out, but with this code I always receive the following error:

Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".epostalar ul li.mail a"}

Plus it doesn't even wait for the mail.

Answer 1

As soon as you receive an e-mail, to invoke click() on it you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "ul.mailler li.mail a"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='mailler']//li[contains(@class, 'mail')]//a"))).click()