How do you accept cookies across multiple websites?

Question

I have a list of domains that I would like to loop over and screenshot using selenium. However, the cookie consent column means the full page is not viewable. Most of them have different consent buttons - what is the best way of accepting these? Or is there another method that could achieve the same results?

urls for reference: docjournals.com, elcomercio.com, maxim.com, wattpad.com, history10.com

Answer 1

You'll need to click accept individually for every website. You can do that, using

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "your_XPATH_locator").click()

Answer 2

From the snapshot

as you can observe diffeent urls have different consent buttons, they may vary with respect to:

• innerText
• tag
• attributes
• implementation (iframe / shadowRoot)

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Conclusion

There can't be a generic solution to accept/deny the cookie concent as at times:

• You may need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and click on the concent.
• You may need to switch to an iframe. See: Unable to locate cookie acceptance window within iframe using Python Selenium
• You may need to traverse within a shadowRoot. See: How to get past a cookie agreement page using Python and Selenium?

Answer 3

To get around the XPATH selectors varying from page to page you can use driver.current_url and use the url to figure out which selector you need to use.
Or alternatively if you iterate over them anyways you can do it like this:

page_1 = {
    'url' : 'docjournals.com'
    'selector' : 'example_selector_1'
}

page_2 = {
    'url' = 'elcomercio.com'
    'selector' : 'example_selector_2'
}

pages = [page_1, page_2]
for page in pages:
    driver.get(page.url)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, page.selector).click()