Finding web page elements with Selenium

Python
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Imagine my joy on seeing Mosh describe in the Selenium module the coding for EXACTLY something I want to automate in the real world. I want to open a web page and push a button. Simple?
The code I have is:
from selenium import webdriver
import time
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get(“Compass Scoring”)
time.sleep(5)
buttonlink = browser.find_element_by_link_text(“Export to Excel”)
buttonlink.click()
browser.quit

I put the time delay in to allow the page to load. Not sure if that helps or not. I do intend to learn more about html but it would be really good if I could get this to work now. I have tried various versions of the browser_find_element… methods but have no joy getting this to work and I feel like I am in the dark and just guessing. Can anyone help me with this one?
Thanks Peter

2

I seem to have resolved the problem with this line of code:

buttonlink = browser.find_element_by_tag_name(“span”)

But I do get this message in the terminal: “USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1048 Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x1F)”

I googled it and the advise seems to be to ignore it. Does anyone here have advise to add?

3

Hello,
Is there any difference between http and https protocol web pages with Selenium ?