Press button using selenium on yahoo finance doesn't work

Question

I am trying to get the top stocks for the day so I go to https://finance.yahoo.com/gainers but I the want to edit the filters by pressing Edit.

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://finance.yahoo.com/gainers")
element = driver.find_element_by_class_name("Bgc($linkColor).Bgc($linkActiveColor):h.C(white).Fw(500).Px(20px).Py(9px).Bdrs(3px).Bd(0).Fz(s).D(ib).Whs(nw).Miw(110px)")
element.click()

This doesn't work. How can I fix it?

use data-reactid... xpath of "//span[@data-reactid='23']" – pcalkins Dec 11 '20 at 20:57 — pcalkins, Dec 11 '20 at 20:57

Vinay · Answer 1 · 2020-12-11T21:58:19.487

The java code below seems to work.

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://finance.yahoo.com/gainers");
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
        WebElement editButton = wait
                .until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("button[data-reactid=\"23\"]")));
        editButton.click();

Cleaner locator

        WebElement editButton = wait
.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//button/span[contains(text(),'Edit')]")));

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '20 at 22:17

To click on the element Edit you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using xpath:

driver.get("https://finance.yahoo.com/gainers")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[text()='Edit']").click()

Ideally, to click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using XPATH:

driver.get("https://finance.yahoo.com/gainers")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Edit']"))).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

Press button using selenium on yahoo finance doesn't work

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