[FIXED] actions.perform() in selenium only works at the first time, than it does nothing. What can be the problem?

Issue

The code below is an automated CookieClicker I wrote for experimenting with ActionChains. It's based on a tutorial video, at 9:42. (Link)

When I run this code, the for loop runs down 1000 times but only 1 click happens. Multiple clicks only happen if I remove "#" from the commented line, so I run actions.click(cookie) each time. As for the video, that one extra line of code is not necessary. What can be the cause of that?

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

s = Service("C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)

driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/")

driver.implicitly_wait(5)

cookie=driver.find_element(By.ID,"bigCookie")
cookie_count = driver.find_element(By.ID,"cookies")

actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.click(cookie)

for i in range(1000):
    #actions.click(cookie)
    actions.perform()
    count=int(cookie_count.text.split(" ")[0])
    print(i,count)
driver.quit()

Solution

The ActionChains implementation

ActionChains can be used in a chain pattern. When you call methods for actions on the ActionChains object, the actions are stored in a queue in the ActionChains object. When you call perform(), the events are fired in the order they are queued up.

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perform()

Performs all stored actions.

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Conclusion

perform() would fire the events stored in the queue. In your usecase, the actions.click(cookie) is the event.

Your optimal code block will be:

driver.get("https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/")
cookie_count = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#cookies")))
cookie = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#bigCookie")))
for i in range(100):
    ActionChains(driver).click(cookie).perform()
    count = cookie_count.text.split(" ")[0]
    print(i,count)
driver.quit()

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Answered By - DebanjanB