How to interact with location specific popups with selenium and python









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I'm trying to build a web scraper with selenium that pulls pricing and nutrition data from https://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp for a school project. The difficulty is that pricing data is store specific. To solve this I have used selenium to enter the users zip-code on the website. Afterwards, a pop up window opens with five of the nearest stores. The program needs to select a store from these locations.



I've copied the x-path of the button that selects the first store and set it to be clicked, but selenium still does not continue past the popup.



Here is my code:



hannaford = 
"https://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp"
#opens website
driver.get(hannaford)

driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="node01"]/a""").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="pageContentWrapperInner"]/div[2]/div/div[1]/p[2]/a""").click()

inputElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="cityStateZipLayer"]""")
inputElement.send_keys(zip)
inputElement.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

#attempt to select store in popup
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="glo-store-results-layer-store-list"]/div[1]/span/form/a""").click()


and here is the html associated with the link I'm trying to click:



<span class="fr rightSide">
<form class="fr" action="/custserv/save_user_store.cmd" method="post" name="selectThisStoreForm"><input type="hidden" name="form_state" value="selectThisStoreForm"><input name="storeId" type="hidden" value="21185" autofillparam="ON"><a href="" onclick="javascript:saveUserStoreNoClose('21185');return false;" class="altLink">
<input class="shopNow" type="image" autofillparam="ON" src="/assets/hf/assets/images/buttons/btn_shopNow.gif" border="0" alt="Shop Now"></a>
</form></span>


How could I resolve this issue. Is it even possible to select dynamic elements like this in selenium?










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  • The popup might not be loaded by the time you try to interact with it. Try adding a time.sleep(1) inbetween opening the popup and interacting with it.
    – Brandon Lyons
    Nov 12 at 0:12










  • What error do you get with your code? If it is NoSuchElementException, you should try using WebDriverWait to wait for the element to load.
    – Kamal
    Nov 12 at 7:46










  • @Black_lotus What are the Manual Steps which you are trying to Automate?
    – DebanjanB
    Nov 12 at 8:13










  • Thank you, @Brandon Lyons, using time.sleep(1) solved my issue!
    – Black_lotus
    Nov 12 at 17:40














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I'm trying to build a web scraper with selenium that pulls pricing and nutrition data from https://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp for a school project. The difficulty is that pricing data is store specific. To solve this I have used selenium to enter the users zip-code on the website. Afterwards, a pop up window opens with five of the nearest stores. The program needs to select a store from these locations.



I've copied the x-path of the button that selects the first store and set it to be clicked, but selenium still does not continue past the popup.



Here is my code:



hannaford = 
"https://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp"
#opens website
driver.get(hannaford)

driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="node01"]/a""").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="pageContentWrapperInner"]/div[2]/div/div[1]/p[2]/a""").click()

inputElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="cityStateZipLayer"]""")
inputElement.send_keys(zip)
inputElement.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

#attempt to select store in popup
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="glo-store-results-layer-store-list"]/div[1]/span/form/a""").click()


and here is the html associated with the link I'm trying to click:



<span class="fr rightSide">
<form class="fr" action="/custserv/save_user_store.cmd" method="post" name="selectThisStoreForm"><input type="hidden" name="form_state" value="selectThisStoreForm"><input name="storeId" type="hidden" value="21185" autofillparam="ON"><a href="" onclick="javascript:saveUserStoreNoClose('21185');return false;" class="altLink">
<input class="shopNow" type="image" autofillparam="ON" src="/assets/hf/assets/images/buttons/btn_shopNow.gif" border="0" alt="Shop Now"></a>
</form></span>


How could I resolve this issue. Is it even possible to select dynamic elements like this in selenium?










share|improve this question





















  • The popup might not be loaded by the time you try to interact with it. Try adding a time.sleep(1) inbetween opening the popup and interacting with it.
    – Brandon Lyons
    Nov 12 at 0:12










  • What error do you get with your code? If it is NoSuchElementException, you should try using WebDriverWait to wait for the element to load.
    – Kamal
    Nov 12 at 7:46










  • @Black_lotus What are the Manual Steps which you are trying to Automate?
    – DebanjanB
    Nov 12 at 8:13










  • Thank you, @Brandon Lyons, using time.sleep(1) solved my issue!
    – Black_lotus
    Nov 12 at 17:40












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I'm trying to build a web scraper with selenium that pulls pricing and nutrition data from https://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp for a school project. The difficulty is that pricing data is store specific. To solve this I have used selenium to enter the users zip-code on the website. Afterwards, a pop up window opens with five of the nearest stores. The program needs to select a store from these locations.



I've copied the x-path of the button that selects the first store and set it to be clicked, but selenium still does not continue past the popup.



Here is my code:



hannaford = 
"https://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp"
#opens website
driver.get(hannaford)

driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="node01"]/a""").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="pageContentWrapperInner"]/div[2]/div/div[1]/p[2]/a""").click()

inputElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="cityStateZipLayer"]""")
inputElement.send_keys(zip)
inputElement.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

#attempt to select store in popup
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="glo-store-results-layer-store-list"]/div[1]/span/form/a""").click()


and here is the html associated with the link I'm trying to click:



<span class="fr rightSide">
<form class="fr" action="/custserv/save_user_store.cmd" method="post" name="selectThisStoreForm"><input type="hidden" name="form_state" value="selectThisStoreForm"><input name="storeId" type="hidden" value="21185" autofillparam="ON"><a href="" onclick="javascript:saveUserStoreNoClose('21185');return false;" class="altLink">
<input class="shopNow" type="image" autofillparam="ON" src="/assets/hf/assets/images/buttons/btn_shopNow.gif" border="0" alt="Shop Now"></a>
</form></span>


How could I resolve this issue. Is it even possible to select dynamic elements like this in selenium?










share|improve this question













I'm trying to build a web scraper with selenium that pulls pricing and nutrition data from https://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp for a school project. The difficulty is that pricing data is store specific. To solve this I have used selenium to enter the users zip-code on the website. Afterwards, a pop up window opens with five of the nearest stores. The program needs to select a store from these locations.



I've copied the x-path of the button that selects the first store and set it to be clicked, but selenium still does not continue past the popup.



Here is my code:



hannaford = 
"https://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp"
#opens website
driver.get(hannaford)

driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="node01"]/a""").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="pageContentWrapperInner"]/div[2]/div/div[1]/p[2]/a""").click()

inputElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="cityStateZipLayer"]""")
inputElement.send_keys(zip)
inputElement.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

#attempt to select store in popup
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="glo-store-results-layer-store-list"]/div[1]/span/form/a""").click()


and here is the html associated with the link I'm trying to click:



<span class="fr rightSide">
<form class="fr" action="/custserv/save_user_store.cmd" method="post" name="selectThisStoreForm"><input type="hidden" name="form_state" value="selectThisStoreForm"><input name="storeId" type="hidden" value="21185" autofillparam="ON"><a href="" onclick="javascript:saveUserStoreNoClose('21185');return false;" class="altLink">
<input class="shopNow" type="image" autofillparam="ON" src="/assets/hf/assets/images/buttons/btn_shopNow.gif" border="0" alt="Shop Now"></a>
</form></span>


How could I resolve this issue. Is it even possible to select dynamic elements like this in selenium?







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  • The popup might not be loaded by the time you try to interact with it. Try adding a time.sleep(1) inbetween opening the popup and interacting with it.
    – Brandon Lyons
    Nov 12 at 0:12










  • What error do you get with your code? If it is NoSuchElementException, you should try using WebDriverWait to wait for the element to load.
    – Kamal
    Nov 12 at 7:46










  • @Black_lotus What are the Manual Steps which you are trying to Automate?
    – DebanjanB
    Nov 12 at 8:13










  • Thank you, @Brandon Lyons, using time.sleep(1) solved my issue!
    – Black_lotus
    Nov 12 at 17:40
















  • The popup might not be loaded by the time you try to interact with it. Try adding a time.sleep(1) inbetween opening the popup and interacting with it.
    – Brandon Lyons
    Nov 12 at 0:12










  • What error do you get with your code? If it is NoSuchElementException, you should try using WebDriverWait to wait for the element to load.
    – Kamal
    Nov 12 at 7:46










  • @Black_lotus What are the Manual Steps which you are trying to Automate?
    – DebanjanB
    Nov 12 at 8:13










  • Thank you, @Brandon Lyons, using time.sleep(1) solved my issue!
    – Black_lotus
    Nov 12 at 17:40















The popup might not be loaded by the time you try to interact with it. Try adding a time.sleep(1) inbetween opening the popup and interacting with it.
– Brandon Lyons
Nov 12 at 0:12




The popup might not be loaded by the time you try to interact with it. Try adding a time.sleep(1) inbetween opening the popup and interacting with it.
– Brandon Lyons
Nov 12 at 0:12












What error do you get with your code? If it is NoSuchElementException, you should try using WebDriverWait to wait for the element to load.
– Kamal
Nov 12 at 7:46




What error do you get with your code? If it is NoSuchElementException, you should try using WebDriverWait to wait for the element to load.
– Kamal
Nov 12 at 7:46












@Black_lotus What are the Manual Steps which you are trying to Automate?
– DebanjanB
Nov 12 at 8:13




@Black_lotus What are the Manual Steps which you are trying to Automate?
– DebanjanB
Nov 12 at 8:13












Thank you, @Brandon Lyons, using time.sleep(1) solved my issue!
– Black_lotus
Nov 12 at 17:40




Thank you, @Brandon Lyons, using time.sleep(1) solved my issue!
– Black_lotus
Nov 12 at 17:40

















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