I'm trying to get the data from this webpage: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00
It is my first time using selenium, and I can't find the button to expand the first accordion (while I found the one to expand the second one).
For now, I have:
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00')
button = driver.find_element(By.ID,"WHAT-IS-THE-ID")
button.click()
For some reason the selenium is not able to interact with these web elements, when you cannot use selenium's click() or ActionChains to interact with the element, you can use JavaScript.
Refer the working code below:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00")
driver.maximize_window()
# Below line creates WebDriverWait object which waits for 10s based on condition
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
# Below 2 lines will click on first accordion element using JavaScript
accordion_btn = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "us-trends-table-toggle")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", accordion_btn)
# Below 2 lines will click on download button using JavaScript
download_btn = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "btnUSTrendsTableExport")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", download_btn)