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I am trying to create a web application that automately republishes on a site for private sales.

Login and everything went well, but if I try to find and click the republish button it just wont work. I've tried it with every locator, but the problem is that every button got an uniqe ID. Example:

<button name="republish" type="button" data-testid="5484xxxxx-republish-button" class="Button__ButtonContainer-sc-3uxxxx-0 hxXxxX">Republish</button>

The last I've tried:

buttons = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//*[contains(text(), 'Republish')]")

for btn in buttons:
    btn.click()

But it also didnt work, same with By.NAME, BY.TAG_NAME

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  • Is this sole button on whole page? If not how does other buttons (which you do not wish to click) looks like? – Daweo Jul 25 '22 at 14:36
  • Yeah all of them got uniqe ID's for example the ones were the buttons already got republished look like this: – nelloyo Jul 25 '22 at 14:43

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The <button> element looks to be dynamically generated so to click elements 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.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[data-testid$='republish-button'][name='republish']"))))

  • Using XPATH:

    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[starts-with(@class, 'Button__ButtonContainer') and contains(@data-testid, 'republish-button')][@name='republish' and text()='Republish']"))))

  • 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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  • Thanks for that, its now able to locate the button. However, its not clickable because of a element over it, Ive tried to find solutions to ignore that element, but failed. – nelloyo Jul 27 '22 at 11:49
  • Error looks like this: selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element is not clickable at point (94, 16). Other element would receive the click: Logo – nelloyo Jul 27 '22 at 11:53
  • Checkout the updated answer and let me know the result. – undetected Selenium Jul 27 '22 at 11:59