python selenium selection option from dropdown

Question

I need help to select the option "Last 7 days" from the following dropdown using python and selenium:

here is the html for part of the dropdown:


    
        
            
                DATE RANGE:
                Last 30 days
            
            
        
        
            
                Today
                
                     (
                    22 Feb
                    )
                
            
                Yesterday
                
                     (
                    21 Feb
                    )
                
            
                This week
                
                     (
                    Monday - Today
                    )
                
            
                Last 7 days
                
                     (
                    16 Feb - Today
                    )
                
            
                This month
                
                     (
                    1 Feb - Today
                    )

My code so far is:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import time

PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
myUsername="Xxx”
myPassword="Xxx”
driver.get("https://uk.ixl.com/signin/sop")


driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="siusername"]').send_keys(myUsername)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="sipassword"]').send_keys(myPassword)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="custom-signin-button"]').click()
time.sleep(1)

#select report
driver.get("https://uk.ixl.com/analytics/students-quickview?teacherId=125756982")
time.sleep(5)           

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CLASS_NAME, 'date-range'))).click()
driver.find_element_by_id('yui_3_18_1_1_1614002255126_189').click()

I am getting the error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate 
element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="yui_3_18_1_1_1614002255126_189"]"}

This is only my second python project so forgive any lack of understanding, this is just a hobby, but I've been stuck for 2 days trying all sorts but nothing works, any help would be appreciated (even links to videos that would help solve this so I can learn), thanks

user_8752062 · Answer

You can hard code text in xpath like this:

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CLASS_NAME, 'date-range'))).click()
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//div[text()="Last 7 days"]'))).click()

Please change the text if you want other options.

user_7563370 · Answer

What I usually do is:

driver.find_element_by_xpath(f'//select[@name="nameOfYourButton"]/option[text()=""TextToBeSelected"]').click()

Where nameOfYourButton and TextToBeSelected must be replaced with your specific variable

In particular, I can see that TextToBeSelected should be Last 7 days while from the HTML snippet that you are showing I can't see the name of the button.

user_10885684 · Answer

Use WebDriverWait() and following xpath to click on Last 7 days.

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='select-body']//div[@class='option' and contains(.,'Last 7 days')]"))).click()

python selenium selection option from dropdown

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