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wait for element and click - windows11 - Mar-21-2020
Hello world, I need some help
. I´m try to search and did´t find the solution or it was to confuse. 
I'm trying to wait for the element to be visible in the website to open, right now I have a time, but some times the internet is slow and I can´t open. I would like to have something like "wait until the element appear and click()"
thank you
this is my code:
from selenium import webdriver
browser=webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="C:\\Users\\Sabrina\\Desktop\\geckodriver-v0.26.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe")
browser.get("website link, for exemple www.youtube.com")
import time
time.sleep(8)
browser.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/main/div/div[2]/section[1]").click()
import time
time.sleep(8)
browser.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/main/div[2]/section[1]").click()
RE: wait for element and click - Larz60+ - Mar-21-2020
1st only import packages once, usually at the start of the program
You need to learn more about scraping.
Please do the following tutorials:
web scraping part 1
web scraping part 2
RE: wait for element and click - windows11 - Mar-21-2020
Found it how I do. If some one have the same question is here the solution
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
def init_driver():
driver=webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="C:\\Users\\SAbrina\\Desktop\\geckodriver-v0.26.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe")
driver.wait=WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
return driver
def get_data(driver):
driver.get("website link")
element=driver.wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"/html/body/div[2]/main/div/div[2]/section[1]")))
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/main/div/div[2]/section[1]").click()
driver=init_driver()
get_data(driver)