How to click on the Check Interactions button using Selenium

Question

I'm working on this site drugs.com to see interaction between two drugs . i added two drug name in search box of this site and i need to click on check interactions box in this site to see interaction between two drugs in another window .

I used several methods to solve this problem, but I could not solve this problem. This is my code that add two drugs in search box:

import requests 
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# Launch the Chrome browser

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# Navigate to the drugs.com drug interactions page

driver.get("https://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html")
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#livesearch-interaction-basic"))).send_keys('aspirin' +Keys.RETURN)
search_box = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#livesearch-interaction")))
search_box.clear()
search_box.send_keys('Aleve')
search_box.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

HTML snapshot:

Answer 1

To click on the element with text as "Check Interactions" you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Check Interactions"))).click()
  

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[href^='/interactions-check']"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(., 'Check Interactions')]"))).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
  

Answer 2

Here's a complete SeleniumBase script that automates that.

First pip install seleniumbase, then run with python:

from seleniumbase import BaseCase
BaseCase.main(__name__, __file__, "--slow", "--ad-block")

class MyTest(BaseCase):
    def test_drug_interactions(self):
        self.open("https://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html")
        self.type("input#livesearch-interaction-basic", "Aspirin")
        self.click('a:contains("Aspirin")')
        self.type("input#livesearch-interaction", "Aleve")
        self.click('a:contains("Aleve")')
        self.click('a[href*="/interactions-check.php?drug_list"]')
        self.sleep(5)