How do I get my clicks to work on the website https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com using Selenium through Python

Question

When I run this code in Selenium is simply sits there loading the web page forever. Is anyone able to get this code to work and bring me to the login form?

from selenium import webdriver;
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select;
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys;
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By;
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options;
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait;
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC;
import time;



browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com')

WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a#header_sign_in"))).click()

After about 5 minutes of the webpage remaining unresponsive I get this error:

TimeoutException                          Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-6-47279e187da7> in <module>
     11 
     12 browser = webdriver.Chrome()
---> 13 browser.get('https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com')
     14 
     15 WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a#header_sign_in"))).click()

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py in get(self, url)
    331         Loads a web page in the current browser session.
    332         """
--> 333         self.execute(Command.GET, {'url': url})
    334 
    335     @property

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py in execute(self, driver_command, params)
    319         response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
    320         if response:
--> 321             self.error_handler.check_response(response)
    322             response['value'] = self._unwrap_value(
    323                 response.get('value', None))

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py in check_response(self, response)
    240                 alert_text = value['alert'].get('text')
    241             raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace, alert_text)
--> 242         raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
    243 
    244     def _value_or_default(self, obj, key, default):

TimeoutException: Message: timeout
  (Session info: chrome=77.0.3865.75)

Yeah, the browser is launched and the website opens fine. However, it seems to be continually loading/frozen after that. — jest3rz, Sep 26 '19 at 13:55
@debanjanb to send.keys to the login form to login to the website. I can't access the login form though because the webpage is unresponsive and sits loading. — jest3rz, Sep 26 '19 at 15:53
@jest3rz - I also reproduced page is unresponsive when automation script opens it. works fine on manual. I am also waiting to see the answer. — Amit Jain, Sep 26 '19 at 17:50
@AmitJain whats odd is the regular costco.com website works, albeit slowly. — jest3rz, Sep 26 '19 at 18:14
@AmitJain Yeah, I meant with Selenium. Costco.com works but costcobusinessdelivery.com doesn't. Very odd — jest3rz, Sep 26 '19 at 18:19
It's possible that costcobusinessdelivery.com restricts access for automation browsers. From what I understand, these sites can detect where traffic originates from, and they might block any traffic that is not sourced from manual clicks. — CEH, Sep 26 '19 at 20:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '19 at 22:04

To click() on the link with text as Sign In / Register within the website https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/ you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Sign In / Register"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a#header_sign_in"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@id='header_sign_in']"))).click()

Note : You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Browser Snapshot:

the new code doesn't work, selenium sits on the www.costcobusinessdelivery.com webpage and never loads. After about 5 minutes I get this error: TimeoutException: Message: timeout (Session info: chrome=77.0.3865.75) — jest3rz, Sep 27 '19 at 13:17

How do I get my clicks to work on the website https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com using Selenium through Python

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