How to click on the Cookie numerous times in-order to play cookie clicker within https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ using Selenium and Python

Question

I was trying to make a simple selenium program to play cookie clicker from what I have seen I can't figure why it is not working here is my code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

PATH = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get('https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/')

driver.implicitly_wait(5)

cookie = driver.find_elements_by_id('bigCookie')
cookie_count = driver.find_elements_by_id('cookies')
items = [driver.find_elements_by_id('productPrice' + str(i)) for i in range (1,-1,-1)]

actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.click(cookie)

for i in range(5000):
    actions.perform()

and here is the error I was getting

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:/Users/ffl_s/Desktop/Botting/My Bot/cookie.py", line 15, in <module>
    actions.click(cookie)
  File "C:\Users\ffl_s\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\action_chains.py", line 102, in click
    self.move_to_element(on_element)
  File "C:\Users\ffl_s\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\action_chains.py", line 273, in move_to_element
    self.w3c_actions.pointer_action.move_to(to_element)
  File "C:\Users\ffl_s\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\actions\pointer_actions.py", line 42, in move_to
    raise AttributeError("move_to requires a WebElement")
AttributeError: move_to requires a WebElement
PS C:\Users\ffl_s\Desktop\Botting\My Bot> [21704:18120:0918/223803.402:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(208)] [22:38:03.402] Bluetooth: bluetooth_adapter_winrt.cc:1074 Getting Default Adapter failed.

When I try to run the code it opens up the correct website but nothing happens after that — Noah Sullivan, Sep 19 '20 at 02:19
Look up chrome driver manager for the second error it seem your binaries are messed up. — Arundeep Chohan, Sep 19 '20 at 02:55
Sorry but would it be possible for you to explain a little further on what you just said to do I'm still new to this and don't completely follow what you're saying — Noah Sullivan, Sep 19 '20 at 02:58
The setup for selenium is incorrect. You can simply pip install using command prompt. Chrome driver managers makes sure your using the right driver for the chrome version you are using. If you just install that and do the bottom your problem should be solved. — Arundeep Chohan, Sep 19 '20 at 03:00
I added the code you put and in terminal I put "pip install webdriver_manager" and it is still not working — Noah Sullivan, Sep 19 '20 at 03:08
The only thing I can think of now is maybe your Chome Version because the code works on mine. — Arundeep Chohan, Sep 19 '20 at 03:17
my chrome version is 85.0.4183.102 pretty sure I downloaded the right version driver — Noah Sullivan, Sep 19 '20 at 03:22

Arundeep Chohan · Answer 1 · 2020-09-19T02:55:22.160

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If you want to click 5000 times and display the cookies text you could do this. Just pip install webdriver-manager to fix up your binaries as well.

from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get('https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/')
for i in range(5000):
   ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(driver.find_element_by_id('bigCookie')).click().perform()
items = driver.find_element_by_id('cookies')
print(items.text)

edited Sep 19 '20 at 02:55

answered Sep 19 '20 at 02:13

Arundeep Chohan

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Just remove the rest and use this. – Arundeep Chohan Sep 19 '20 at 02:24
that's what I tried and it is still failing when I try to run it – Noah Sullivan Sep 19 '20 at 02:36
where would I send that won't let me in the comments? – Noah Sullivan Sep 19 '20 at 02:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '20 at 23:58

To click on the Cookie numerous times inorder to play cookie clicker you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

driver.get('https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/')
for i in range(100):
  driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#bigCookie"))))
print(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#cookies").text)

Console Output:
```
80 cookies
per second : 0
```

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

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