Python Selenium a hidden frame that appears sometimes with java script assert

Question

I have a notification that appears in a couple of times a week on this website I scrape. And I can't get around it.

I can run the code.

el =  driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='btnRead']")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", el)

Which clears it, but if I leave it in my code it gives me a no such element exception. Event if I try to wrap it in try/catch like so.

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

try:
    el = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='btnRead']")
    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", el)
except NoSuchElementException:
    print(nonefound)
sleep(5)
driver.quit()

This also clears it, if it exists but if it doesn't, error. I assume I am doing something wrong but I have tried a few different versions of this and I always get the error which leaves the windows hanging and stops the execution of the rest of the script.

Any ideas would be great.

Answer 1

You can check the length of the element in case you want to continue your scripts.

If length of the elements more that 0 this will click.

if len(driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//input[@id='btnRead']"))>0 :
    el = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='btnRead']")
    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", el)
else:
    print("nonefound")

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Or induce WebDriverWait() and visibility_of_element_located()

try:
    el = WebDriverWait(driver,5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(("//input[@id='btnRead']")))
    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", el)
except NoSuchElementException:
    print("nonefound")

You need to import following libraries.

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException