Python Selenium – Find Button by text

In this article, let’s discuss how to find a button by text using selenium. See the below example to get an idea about the meaning of the finding button by text.

Example:

URL: https://html.com/tags/button/

We need to find the “CLICK ME!” button using the text “Click me!”.

Module Needed:

Selenium: The selenium package is used to automate web browser interaction from Python. It is an open-source tool primarily used for testing. Run the following command in the terminal to install this library:

pip install selenium

Setup Web Drivers:

Web Driver is a package to interact with a Web Browser. You can install any Web Driver according to your browser choice. Install any one of them using the given links-

Here, we are going to use ChromeDriver.

Find xpath of the button:

• Method 1: Using Inspect Element
  Right Click on the element you are trying to find the xpath. Select the “Inspect” option.
   

• Right click on the highlighted area on the console. Go to Copy xpath
   

• Method 2: Using Chrome Extension to find xpath easily: 
  We can easily find xpath of an element using a Chrome extension like SelectorGadget.
   

Approach:

• Import Selenium and time library
• Set the Web Driver path with the location where you have downloaded the WebDriver
  Example- “C:\\chromedriver.exe”
• Call driver.get() function to navigate to a particular URL.
• Call time.sleep() function to wait for the driver to completely load the webpage.
• Use driver.find_element_by_xpath() method to find the button using xpath.
• Finding button by text-
  (i) Using normalize-space() method:
  driver.find_element_by_xpath(‘//button[normalize-space()=”Click me!”]’)
  (ii) Using text() method:
  driver.find_element_by_xpath(‘//button’)
  Note: It is recommended to use normalize-space() method because it trim the left and right side spaces. It is possible that there can be spaces present at the start or at the end of the target text.
• Lastly close the driver using driver.close() function.

Implementation:

Output: