I'm trying to get information from the site, using the right css selectors, but it still returns me as if the element didn't exist

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trying to build a bot to my own services, but while i'm trying to run its crashs login_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "//div[@class='loginRegisterButtons sb-login-register-buttons clearfix ember-view']//a[@class='btn signin-btn sbLoginBtn buttons1571052392296']"))) login_button.click()

the html

<div class="loginRegisterButtons sb-login-register-buttons clearfix ember-view">
    <div>
        <a class="btn signin-btn sbLoginBtn buttons1571052392296">
           <span class="btf-text">ENTRAR</span>
        </a>
    </div>
</div>

Please use code tags. Why are you using `By.CSS_SELECTOR` when your selector is XPATH? — , Jul 16 '20 at 19:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '20 at 19:30

The desired element is a Ember.js enabled element, so to click on the element 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, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.btn.signin-btn.sbLoginBtn > span.btf-text"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='btf-text' and text()='ENTRAR']"))).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

I'm trying to get information from the site, using the right css selectors, but it still returns me as if the element didn't exist

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