How to click a button in html within an iframe using Selenium

Question:

I need to extract some values from a website, and to do so, I have to click on a button on that page. However, there seems to be an issue. I noticed that when I hit F12, I can identify the specific tag, class, XPath, and so forth, but when I use "CTRL+U" and attempt to find that button, it’s not visible. I’m not sure why this happens, but okay.

This is the website:

https://www.b3.com.br/pt_br/produtos-e-servicos/negociacao/renda-variavel/empresas-listadas.htm

When I execute the following code:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/app-root/app-companies-home/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/app-companies-home -filter-name/form/div/div[4]/button').click()

Essentially, I’m trying to simulate a click on the button labeled "TODOS",
whose tag is:

<button type="submit" aria-label="Buscar Todas" class="btn btn-light btn-block mt-3">Todos</button>

and the FULL XPATH path is:

/html/body/app-root/app-companies-home/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/app-companies-home-filter-name/form/div/div[4]/button

However, I receive this error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/app-root/app-companies-home/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/app-companies-home-filter-name/form/div/div[4]/button"}

It seems that the HTML element isn’t being found, despite its visibility when pressing F12. Any advice on how to resolve this issue?

This is my full code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
chrome_options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9222")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=None, options=chrome_options)
driver.get(
    "https://www.b3.com.br/pt_br/produtos-e-servicos/negociacao/renda-variavel/empresas-listadas.htm"
)
time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element(
    By.XPATH,
    "/html/body/app-root/app-companies-home/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/app-companies-home-filter-name/form/div/div[4]/button",
).click()

I tried to use other ways to use find_element() but without success

Asked By: Gabriel Menezes

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Answers:

The element Todos is within an <iframe> so you have to:

  • Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.

  • Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable.

  • You can use either of the following locator strategies:

    • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

      driver.get("https://www.b3.com.br/pt_br/produtos-e-servicos/negociacao/renda-variavel/empresas-listadas.htm")
      WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button#onetrust-accept-btn-handler"))).click()
      WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe#bvmf_iframe")))
      WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[aria-label='Buscar Todas']"))).click()
      
    • Using XPATH:

      driver.get("https://www.b3.com.br/pt_br/produtos-e-servicos/negociacao/renda-variavel/empresas-listadas.htm")
      WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//button[@id='onetrust-accept-btn-handler']"))).click()
      WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@id='bvmf_iframe']")))
      WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//button[@aria-label='Buscar Todas']"))).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
    
  • Browser Snapshot:

Todos


Reference

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Answered By: undetected Selenium