how to click play button amazon photos python selenium

Question

I'm trying to click the play button on amazon photos using selenium in a python script. I've tried using a xpath

play_button_displayed = driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[@id="photos"]/section/section/section/div/div/figure[1]/div/div[1]/figure/figure/button')

play_button_display.click()

i've tried other methods and the most promising in my eyes was the css selector `

play_button = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,".play")
play_button.click()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:\pictures_backup\tool_used\python\amazon_photos_web_list_creation\amazon_photos_open_and_replace_date_auto_and_manual\amazon_photos_open_and_replace_date_auto_and_manual.py", line 104, in <module>
    LaunchBrowser_main()
  File "d:\pictures_backup\tool_used\python\amazon_photos_web_list_creation\amazon_photos_open_and_replace_date_auto_and_manual\amazon_photos_open_and_replace_date_auto_and_manual.py", line 53, in LaunchBrowser_main
    click_info()
  File "d:\pictures_backup\tool_used\python\amazon_photos_web_list_creation\amazon_photos_open_and_replace_date_auto_and_manual\amazon_photos_open_and_replace_date_auto_and_manual.py", line 92, in click_info
    play_button = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"play")
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 830, in find_element
    return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {"using": by, "value": value})["value"]
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 440, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 245, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"play"}
  (Session info: chrome=110.0.5481.78)
Stacktrace:
Backtrace:
    (No symbol) [0x007C37D3]
    (No symbol) [0x00758B81]
    (No symbol) [0x0065B36D]
    (No symbol) [0x0068D382]
    (No symbol) [0x0068D4BB]
    (No symbol) [0x006C3302]
    (No symbol) [0x006AB464]
    (No symbol) [0x006C1215]
    (No symbol) [0x006AB216]
    (No symbol) [0x00680D97]
    (No symbol) [0x0068253D]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x00A3ABF2+2510930]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x00A68EC1+2700065]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x00A6C86C+2714828]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x00873480+645344]
    (No symbol) [0x00760FD2]
    (No symbol) [0x00766C68]
    (No symbol) [0x00766D4B]
    (No symbol) [0x00770D6B]
    BaseThreadInitThunk [0x761E00F9+25]
    RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x77607BBE+286]
    RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x77607B8E+238]


[Done] exited with code=1 in 32.94 seconds

but that didn't work either. i would like to preferable work in css selector since that seems the easiest. any help will be much appreciated.

here's the xpath of buttom from chrome

//*[@id="photos"]/section/section/section/div/div/figure[1]/div/div[1]/figure/figure/button

full xpath

/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/section/section/section/div/div/figure[1]/div/div[1]/figure/figure/button

and element

<button class="play"></button>

i've tried, xpath, css selector, class name id ect and they all didn't work but css selector seems the easiest and promising but thats not working lmao

Update the question with the text based relevant HTML. – undetected Selenium Feb 14 '23 at 06:45 — undetected Selenium, Feb 14 '23 at 06:45
@undetectedSelenium ok i updated with relevant html – Eric Velez Feb 14 '23 at 23:39 — Eric Velez, Feb 14 '23 at 23:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '23 at 23:43

To click on the clickable element you need 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, "#photos button.play"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='photos']/section/section/section/div/div/figure[1]/div/div[1]/figure/figure/button[@class='play']"))).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 tried this method and didn't work. I also tried using the xpath locator and css selector you provided for the way i tried and that didn't work as well @undetected Selenium — Eric Velez, Feb 15 '23 at 16:55

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