find_element() with Link_Text not working using Selenium Python

Question

I am new to selenium whenever I try to find elements using id, name , xpath or anything it gives the same error

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Safari()
driver.get('https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/selenium-safaridriver-macos/')
driver.find_element(By.Link_Text,'Webinar' )

It shows error by underlining By. I tried writing

driver.find_element_by_id('Webinar')

But it does not go through I tried different websites and with different elements like class, id but seems like there is a problem with finding elements by any method is there something that needs to installed to make it work?

Answer 1

This

driver.find_element(By.Link_Text,'Webinar')

should be

driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, 'Webinar')

Also, Import this from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

If you are on Selenium4 then you should not really use:

driver.find_element_by_id('Webinar')

use this instead:

driver.find_element(By.ID, 'Webinar')

If you take a look at the source code, you'd see:

class By(object):
    """
    Set of supported locator strategies.
    """

    ID = "id"
    XPATH = "xpath"
    LINK_TEXT = "link text"
    PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT = "partial link text"
    NAME = "name"
    TAG_NAME = "tag name"
    CLASS_NAME = "class name"
    CSS_SELECTOR = "css selector"

Answer 2

You have to take care of a couple of things here:

• The supported locator strategy should be LINK_TEXT instead of Link_Text

• The link_text should be Webinars instead of Webinar.

• Effectively, your line of code should be:

  driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, 'Webinars' )
  

However, within the webpage there are multiple elements with innerText as Webinars. So you need to use a locator strategies which identifies the element uniquely within the DOM.

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Solution

Ideally, to locate the clickable element from the menu container with text as Webinars you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.menu-menu-1-container a[href='https://www.lambdatest.com/webinar/']")))
  

• Using XPATH:

  element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='menu-menu-1-container']//a[text()='Webinars']")))
  

• 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