Search for a specific element in multiple pages and click using Python Selenium

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Hi im trying to navigate from page 1 to page 5 (the element can be in any of the pages)and find and click on a specific element using python selenium. The following is the element from the page:

<span _ngcontent-mtx-c123"" class"ng-star-inserted">ABC Company</span>

i tried by using : driver.find_element_by_name("ABC Company").click() but this doesnt work. Another Way i tried:

1. element_path="//span[contains(text(),'ABC Company')]" 
2. while True: 
3.  if(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(element_xpath)): driver.find_element_by_xpath(element_xpath).click() 
4.  else: driver.find_element_by_xpath("xpath to goto next page").click()

I need the code to find element from the next pages until its found and then click it.

is there any other way to do this???

Thanks in Advance

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1 Answers

First, you need to check if the element is present and only if it does - click it. Otherwise you will get exception while trying clicking non-existing element.
driver.find_elements returns a list of web elements matching the passed locator. So if there are such elements it will return non-empty list interpreted as True by Python. Otherwise empty list is returned interpreted as False.
As about the locator for the element you are looking for: you can locate the element according to the text it contains. It can be done with XPath.
As following:

element_xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'ABC Company')]"
if(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(element_xpath)):
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(element_xpath).click()

If you need to update the XPath locator dynamically you can pass the text as parameter. Let's say you have a list of texts, you can iterate on them as following:

for txt in texts:
    element_xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'{}')]".format(txt)
    if(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(element_xpath)):
        driver.find_element_by_xpath(element_xpath).click()
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