Unable to click an element-Selenium python

Question

I want to download an image from Instagram but I'm unable to click (using code) on the download button of this page

I tried to click using XPath and CSS selector but it doesn't work.

pyautogui.locateOnScreen('image.PNG') does not work most of the times.

elem=driver.find_element_by_xpath
elem('/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/a').click

driver.find_element_by_css_selector('body > div.page-wrapper > div:nth-child(5) > div > div > div.col-md-3 > div > div.button_div > a').click()

NoSuchElementException

If there's any better way of performing this task please do let me know.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18439851/how-can-i-download-a-file-on-a-click-event-using-selenium you will get your solution here.(maybe) — Rahul kuchhadia, Aug 22 '19 at 06:08
Add [explicit wait](https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html#explicit-waits) — Guy, Aug 22 '19 at 06:17

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 22 '19 at 07:44

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Here you go, you don't need to click any button to download img. If you have the link you can you urllib.request.urlretreive to download files.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import urllib.request

options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless") # runs chrome in headless mode

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

driver.get('https://www.sssinstagram.com/p/B1cSJ8hlxXb/')

# To get the link via image displayed on the page use 
src = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div/img').get_attribute('src')
urllib.request.urlretrieve(src, src.split('/')[-1].split('?')[0]) # saves image with name 69346681_776681372728713_6952518582543886663_n.jpg obtained from the image url 

# to get the image via the href available on the page use 
href = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/a').get_attribute('href')
urllib.request.urlretrieve(href, href.split('/')[-1].split('?')[0])

driver.quit()

edited Aug 22 '19 at 07:44

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thank you so much for the help, can you also explain why it was not clickable – Govind Sehrawat Aug 22 '19 at 06:54
@GovindSehrawat I'm glad it helped. – CodeIt Aug 22 '19 at 06:54
@GovindSehrawat I was able to click the element. I used the same xpath as yours. Don't know exactly why it didn't work on your side. But for this case, you don't need to click image to get the image. – CodeIt Aug 22 '19 at 07:03
okay, can you suggest any tutorial or something for learning more about urllib library – Govind Sehrawat Aug 22 '19 at 07:13
@GovindSehrawat What happened ? – CodeIt Aug 22 '19 at 07:31
@GovindSehrawat Go through the official [docs](https://docs.python.org/3.0/library/urllib.request.html), it contains all the available methods and explanation – CodeIt Aug 22 '19 at 07:52

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