I cant click on an element with selenium and it gives me the error element not interactable

Question

I am trying to make a movie quote making bot and i have already made the random quote scraper from IMDB. But when I try to make the quote from www.quotescover.com, my selenium is giving errors

I have tried a lot to click implicitly, with time.sleep and even tried to use action chains as I have mentioned in my code

qt,mv = getQuote() #basically the quote and the movie name, it can be just any string like qt = 'foo';mv = 'bar'
url = 'https://quotescover.com/designs/wording?res=WTBTQ3FyR01aMEVOdTVCRVJxRFUwdz09'
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
options.add_argument("--test-type")
# options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])
prefs = {'download.default_directory' : os.getcwd()+'images\\'}
options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get(url)
quote = driver.find_element_by_id('quotes')
quote.clear()
quote.send_keys(qt)
movie = driver.find_element_by_id('author')
movie.clear()
movie.send_keys(mv)
submit = driver.find_element_by_id('template-contactform-submit')
submit.click()

download = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CLASS_NAME, 'button  buttonDownload')))
for item in download:
    ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(item).click().perform()

I thought it would work after using actionchains but it gives me the error element not intractable...also one time it didn't give me ANY error, just a blank exception :(

No it's not a duplicate of it – Boidushya Oct 11 '19 at 16:45 — Boidushya, Oct 11 '19 at 16:45

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '19 at 08:53

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I think the problem is, there are other elements in the page that are not going to be visible or clickable. maybe this code helps:

download = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@id='appBody']//button[@class='button  buttonDownload' and contains(text(),'DOWNLOAD')]")))

answered Oct 11 '19 at 08:53

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I think this will work, I will try it and let you know – Boidushya Oct 11 '19 at 16:46
worked like a charm thanks! (had to add a [1] at the end to click on the second element with that class – Boidushya Oct 12 '19 at 11:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 11 '19 at 09:17

By.CLASS_NAME only accept single classname Not multiple classname. Use CssSelector instead classname.

download = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.button.buttonDownload')))
download.location_once_scrolled_into_view
download.click()

OR

download = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.button.buttonDownload')))
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(download).click().perform()

OR

download = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.button.buttonDownload')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", download)

Thanks I'll try it and let you know if it works but probably not as I tried it with xpath as well — Boidushya, Oct 11 '19 at 16:46

I cant click on an element with selenium and it gives me the error element not interactable

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