[FIXED] Auto refresh bot won't click on element

Issue

I'm trying to create a bot that auto refreshes and stops whenever the desired element is available to click/visible. I've made the refresh part and the bot stops when it sees the desired element, but I just can't figure out why it doesn't click on the element:/
Error log

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\selenium drivers\chromedriver.exe")

driver.get("xxx")

driver.maximize_window()

click = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="coiPage-1"]/div[2]/div[1]/button[1]')
click.click()

while True:
    try:
        element = WebDriverWait(driver, 2).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="siteContainer"]/div[6]/div/div[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/form/button'))))
        driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="siteContainer"]/div[6]/div/div[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/form/button').click()
        break
    except TimeoutException:
        driver.refresh()
        continue

Solution

presence_of_element_located()

presence_of_element_located() takes a locator as an argument but not an element.

So you need to change:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 2).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((driver.find_element_by_xpath('xxx'))))

as:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 2).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "xxx")))

---

Ideally, to locate the clickable element and invoke click() on it, you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following Locator Strategy:

while True:
    try:
        WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "xxx"))).click()
        break
    except TimeoutException:
        driver.refresh()
        continue

Answered By - undetected Selenium