how to click on the link using python selenium?

Question

I am trying to log in into my linkedin using python selenium. I am able to open my homepage but after that I want to open the following link present on my homepage

<a href="/profile/edit?trk=nav_responsive_sub_nav_edit_profile"> Edit Profile </a> 

I used the following code which allows me to open my homepage-

import getpass from selenium import webdriver from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait url = "https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login" driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get(url) username = 'email-id' password = 'password' user = driver.find_element_by_name("session_key") for j in username: user.send_keys(j) pasw = driver.find_element_by_name("session_password") for j in password: pasw.send_keys(j) driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.form-buttons>input").click() driver.find_element_by_link_text("Edit Profile").click() 

but i get the following error message-

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"Edit Profile"}

Answer 1

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException import urllib, os, urllib.request import time driver = webdriver.Safari() usrName = 'your_email' pssWrd = "your_password" driver.maximize_window() driver.get("https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login?") driver.find_element_by_name('session_key').send_keys(usrName) driver.find_element_by_class_name('password').send_keys(pssWrd) driver.find_element_by_name('signin').click() 

Answer 2

It sounds likely that your problem can be solved by waiting explicitly for the elements to be present on the page. See section 5.1 Explicit Waits of the following documentation

http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html

Something like this:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10) element = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, 'someid'))) 

Note: the explicit wait should be used after you've entered your username, password and clicked submit

Answer 3

Seems that "Edit Profile" is just an option for "Profile" drop-down menu, so it's not visible initialy. You should click on "Profile" first to open drop-down menu. Try:

driver.find_element_by_link_text("Profile").click() driver.find_element_by_link_text("Edit Profile").click() 

UPDATE

Using XPath:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@class="nav-link"][contains(text(),"Profile")]').click() driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@href="/profile/edit?trk=nav_responsive_sub_nav_edit_profile"]').click()