Selenium click not working in Chrome

Question

I am trying to click on the anchor tag on instagram's page which says log in. Here is my code.

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('https://instagram.com')
login_elem = browser.findElement(By.xpath('//p/a[text() = "Log in"'))
login_elem.click()

The browser opens however the element is not clicked. I have tried various other xpaths and none worked. Here is the image for the Instagram source.

browser object which is WebDriver has `find_element` method and also By.xpath should be written as `browser.find_element(By.XPATH, '//a[text() = "Log in"]')` Read about the selenium api's — chakradhar kasturi, Jun 06 '18 at 03:48
@munyb What error you are getting ? Please share error stack trace — Ishita Shah, Jun 06 '18 at 04:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '18 at 04:07

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You can use below Xpath

.//*[@id='react-root']/section/main/article/div[2]/div[2]/p/a

or CSS Selector

.izU2O>a

or Link Text

Log in

answered Jun 06 '18 at 04:07

Prany

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Have tried all of these and none work for some reason. Just opens the browser and nothing happens. Then closes after period of time. – munyb Jun 06 '18 at 04:16
what is your chrome version and chrome driver version? – Prany Jun 06 '18 at 04:19
66.0.3359.18 and web driver 2.39 I believe – munyb Jun 06 '18 at 04:21
can you initialize driver with - webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/path/to/chromedriver exe") – Prany Jun 06 '18 at 04:24
Changed to this, browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Users/name/Downloads/chromedriver") still nothing. – munyb Jun 06 '18 at 04:28
@munyb Did you add full path of driver including .exe ? – Prany Jun 06 '18 at 06:06
On a Mac so don't have .exe extensions – munyb Jun 06 '18 at 09:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '18 at 04:43

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try this code :

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Log in")))
element.click()

answered Jun 06 '18 at 04:43

cruisepandey

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '18 at 05:09

This is what i tried on my local system and it worked

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="D:\\cs\\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")
a=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//a[text() = "Log in"]')
# added this step for compatibility of scrolling to the view
driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", a)
a.click()

Corrected the XPATH and other changes.Please note executable path should be replaced with your path.

This worked! Thank you. I believe the issue was me needing to import By?... Appreciate it. — munyb, Jun 06 '18 at 09:21

Selenium click not working in Chrome

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