How do I get Selenium Button Click to work?

October 25, 2022

I’m a complete beginner, I have a website in which I want to click a button through python selenium, I’ve tried a lot of things, but I can’t get it to work.

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


chromedriver_location = executable_path=r"C:\Users\HP\Desktop\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver_location)
driver.get('https://maskun.org/donate/')

donate_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(@class, 'give-btn advance-btn')] and text()='Donate Now']")))
donate_button.click()

Right now, I’m getting the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:\pythonprojects\maskun.py", line 13, in <module>
    donate_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(@class, 'give-btn advance-btn')] and text()='Donate Now']")))
  File "C:\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 81, in until
    value = method(self._driver)
  File "C:\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\expected_conditions.py", line 312, in _predicate
    target = driver.find_element(*target)  # grab element at locator
  File "C:\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 856, in find_element
    return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
  File "C:\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 429, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 243, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector: Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression //button[contains(@class, 'give-btn advance-btn')] and text()='Donate Now'] because of the following error:
SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '//button[contains(@class, 'give-btn advance-btn')] and text()='Donate Now']' is not a valid XPath expression.      
  (Session info: chrome=106.0.5249.119)
Stacktrace:
Backtrace:
        Ordinal0 [0x00B51ED3+2236115]
        Ordinal0 [0x00AE92F1+1807089]
        Ordinal0 [0x009F66FD+812797]
        Ordinal0 [0x009F92B4+823988]
        Ordinal0 [0x009F9165+823653]
        Ordinal0 [0x009F9400+824320]
        Ordinal0 [0x00A25352+1004370]
        Ordinal0 [0x00A257CB+1005515]
        Ordinal0 [0x00A57632+1209906]
        Ordinal0 [0x00A41AD4+1120980]
        Ordinal0 [0x00A559E2+1202658]
        Ordinal0 [0x00A418A6+1120422]
        Ordinal0 [0x00A1A73D+960317]
        Ordinal0 [0x00A1B71F+964383]
        GetHandleVerifier [0x00DFE7E2+2743074]
        GetHandleVerifier [0x00DF08D4+2685972]
        GetHandleVerifier [0x00BE2BAA+532202]
        GetHandleVerifier [0x00BE1990+527568]
        Ordinal0 [0x00AF080C+1837068]
        Ordinal0 [0x00AF4CD8+1854680]
        Ordinal0 [0x00AF4DC5+1854917]
        Ordinal0 [0x00AFED64+1895780]
        BaseThreadInitThunk [0x76046739+25]
        RtlGetFullPathName_UEx [0x77858FD2+1218]
        RtlGetFullPathName_UEx [0x77858F9D+1165]

If I inspect the button on chrome I get:

<button class="give-btn advance-btn" tabindex="1">Donate Now<i class="fas fa-chevron-right"></i></button>

The XPath is:

//*[@id="give-form-746-1"]/div[1]/button

>Solution :

you need to switch to frame first than find_elemnt

driver.get('https://maskun.org/donate/')
iframe = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//iframe[@name='give-embed-form']")
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
donate_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Donate Now')]")