Clicking A Button With Selenium In Python

Goal: use Selenium and Python to search for company name on LinkedIn's search bar THEN click on the 'Companies' button in the navigation to arrive to information about companies th

Solution 1:

It seem that you simply used incorrect selectors.

Note that

• @id of div like "ember1002" is dynamic value, so it will be different each time you visit page: "ember1920", "ember1202", etc...

• find_element_by_link_text() can be applied to links only, e.g. <a>Companies</a>, but not buttons

Try to find button by its text content:

browser.find_element_by_xpath('//button[normalize-space()="Companies"]').click()

Solution 2:

With capybara-py (which can be used to drive Selenium), this is as easy as:

page.click_button("Companies")

Bonus: This will be resilient against changes in the implementation of the button, e.g., using <input type="submit" />, etc. It will also be resilient in the face of a delay before the button appears, as click_button() will wait for it to be visible and enabled.