Python + Selenium: Wait Until Element Is Fully Loaded

Python Selenium - Wait until Element is loaded

To locate the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use the following Locator Strategies:

  • XPATH:

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id="ipv4_info"]/span[3]")))
  • CSS_SELECTOR:

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#ipv4_info span:nth-child(3)")))
  • 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

Wait until element is fully loaded using selenium - python

Try this:

root_elm = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath)
important_elm = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located(By.CLASSNAME, "market-title-v3"))

Python + Selenium: Wait until element is fully loaded

First of all I strongly believe you were pretty close. You simply need to format your code in a Pythonic which may solve your issue straight away as follows :

WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="accountStandalone"]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/button'))).click()

You have pulled a rug over the actual issue by mentioning it doesn't wait until it found but goes instant and does other stuff which it shouldn't rather than mentioning what your program is supposed to do (e.g. your code trials) and what wrong your program is doing (i.e. error stack trace).

As per the HTMLs you have shared you can induce a waiter for either of the WebElements as follows :

  • Waiter for the visibility of the text NU ÄR DU MEDLEM, Hello. :

    • CSS_SELECTOR :

      WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.confirmation-title.nsg-font-family--platform.nsg-text--black.edf-title-font-size--xlarge.js-confirmationTitle")))
    • XPATH :

      WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='confirmation-title nsg-font-family--platform nsg-text--black edf-title-font-size--xlarge js-confirmationTitle' and contains(.,'NU ÄR DU MEDLEM, Hello.')]")))
  • Waiter for the button with text FORTSÄTT :

    • CSS_SELECTOR :

      WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.nsg-button.nsg-bg--black.register-next-step-cta.js-nextStepCta")))
    • XPATH :

      WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='nsg-button nsg-bg--black register-next-step-cta js-nextStepCta' and contains(.,'FORTSÄTT')]")))

Wait until page is loaded with Selenium WebDriver for Python

The webdriver will wait for a page to load by default via .get() method.

As you may be looking for some specific element as @user227215 said, you should use WebDriverWait to wait for an element located in your page:

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

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("url")
delay = 3 # seconds
try:
myElem = WebDriverWait(browser, delay).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'IdOfMyElement')))
print "Page is ready!"
except TimeoutException:
print "Loading took too much time!"

I have used it for checking alerts. You can use any other type methods to find the locator.

EDIT 1:

I should mention that the webdriver will wait for a page to load by default. It does not wait for loading inside frames or for ajax requests. It means when you use .get('url'), your browser will wait until the page is completely loaded and then go to the next command in the code. But when you are posting an ajax request, webdriver does not wait and it's your responsibility to wait an appropriate amount of time for the page or a part of page to load; so there is a module named expected_conditions.

Make Selenium wait until text is available

To locate a visible element instead of presence_of_element_located() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategy:

driver.get(url)
try:
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "/html/body/app-root/app-wrapper/div/div[2]/app-etp/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[2]/app-widget-quote-box/div/div/table/tbody/tr[3]/td[1]"))).text)
finally:
pass


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