Selenium is an open source tool that automates web browsers and is widely used for automated testing of web applications.
With Python and Selenium you can easily create a script that searches a web-page for a button containing a particular text and clicks on it.
This note shows an example of how to find a button by text and click on it using Selenium and Python.
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Click Button by Text
In nutshell, to find a button by text and click on it, use the following structure:
button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[text()="Button Text"]') button.click()
Complete Example
Create a project’s working directory:
$ mkdir -p ~/projects/click-button-by-text
Inside the project’s working directory create and activate a virtual environment:
$ cd ~/projects/click-button-by-text $ python3 -m venv venv $ . venv/bin/activate
Install Selenium:
$ pip install selenium webdriver_manager $ pip show selenium | grep -i version Version: 4.4.0 $ pip show webdriver_manager | grep -i version Version: 3.8.3
Download and unzip the latest stable version of a ChromeDriver (the executable that Selenium uses to interact with Chrome):
$ sudo unzip ~/Downloads/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d /usr/local/bin $ chromedriver --version ChromeDriver 104.0.5112.79
Create a click_button_by_text.py file with the contents as follows:
# click_button_by_text.py # by www.ShellHacks.com from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service('/usr/local/bin/chromedriver')) driver.get('https://example.tld') #Click on the button button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[text()="Click on Me"]') button.click()
Execute the click_button_by_text.py to open the https://example.tld and click on the button containing the Click on Me text:
$ python click_button_by_text.py
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