Selenium find and Click button based on other tags

Question

The below html consist of 1 of many rows. Below is a sample row I need to click on the href. The href link is dependent on DataScience td tag and the Finance td tag they are fixed tags they dont change. The tag that I am looping that changes is SomeCategory each category will have a different number instead of the 328 for this particular link.


   
      SomeCategory
         P3
         
      
   
DataScience
Finance

My objective is to find the href link by changing "SomeCategory" value so that I may go to that page. The other 2 values stay the same. By changing "SomeCategory" value the number would change creating a new link. How would I find this href based on the category change while other filter tags remain the same so i can return the href value and create the link for that category like the one below and use driver to go to that page

https://mybooks.topics.com/repo/applications/328

(This link wont work its only for sample purpose)

user_3485434 · Answer

You can find the parent tr element based on the SomeCategory value and then find the a element containing the href inside it.
Something like this:

//tr[.//span[contains(.,'SomeCategory')]]//a

UPD
Let's say you have categories, a list of values you want to use with SomeCategory.
You can format the XPath expression string with SomeCategory variable values as following:

xpath_template = '//tr[.//span[contains(.,"{0}")]]//a'
for category in categories:
    xpath = xpath_template.format(category)

Now you can use the xpath above getting the correspondingly href links / elements.

user_7429447 · Answer

To click() on the desired element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

With respect to the element with text DataScience:

text = "DataScience"
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, f"//td[text()='{text}']//following-sibling::td[2]//a[@class='btn btn-sm btn-outline-primary']"))).click()

With respect to the element with text Finance:

text = "Finance"
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, f"//td[text()='{text}']//following::td[1]//a[@class='btn btn-sm btn-outline-primary']"))).click()

Note: You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Selenium find and Click button based on other tags

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