Change Google Maps review sort with Selenium

Question

I am facing interesting issue with my **Web Scraping** use case. I need to get newest **Google Maps reviews**.
I want to sort reviews by latest date. And all tutorials I am watching is in English, but in my native language the UI is different than in those tutorials.
I am able to click on the button using **Selenium** and button's **XPATH**, but I don't know how to change the sorting options from the visible drop menu.

# Click the sort button
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="pane"]/div/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/div[8]/button').click()

select_by_visible_text() and select_by_value() doesn't work for me as I cannot select the button and doesn't work on div.

URL I am using : Link
To see my UI change to LITHUANIAN language.

Answer 1

First of all you have to learn how to create correct XPath locators.
Long XPath expressions are too fragile.
The "Sort Reviews" button locator instead of
//*[@id="pane"]/div/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/div[8]/button can be
//button[@aria-label='Sort reviews'] or
//button[@data-value='Sort']
After clicking this button, to sort reviews by latest date you can click this element: //li[@data-index='1']
So basically this will work:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@data-index='1']").click()

But since you need to wait for dialog to open after clicking the Sort button you need to utilize Expected Condition wait, as following:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//li[@data-index='1']"))).click()

You will need the following imports for this:

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