Selenium automation with bot

I tried to create a bot with Selenium and the goal is to collect the entire contacts which is listed in an online market platform.

The website loads with 12 ads at a time, so I made the bot to increase the load as much as possible to show around 1000 listings. The problem is however that the listings contacts are on the next page, so I have to get the bot to click on every listing of the 1000 loaded listing and click on the call now button which is also on the next page.

I cannot seem to figure out how to do that though.
I tried adding .click() to the element after the bot has revealed 1000 listing but it does not work for some reason.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I want the bot to :

Load the webpage

Press load more until 1000 ads are displayed on the page

Go through each of the 1000 listing, click on them and get the contact information on the next page

Code:

from selenium import webdriver

import time





browser = webdriver.Chrome('C:\Users\IFY\Downloads\chromedriver.exe')

browser.get('https://www.olx.com.ng/abuja_g40000000068')

elems = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('EIR5N')

button = browser.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="container"]/main/div/section/div/div/div[4]/div[2]/div/div[3]/button""")

link = browser.find_elements_by_class_name("_1X63c")





while len(elems) < 10000:

    button.send_keys("n")

else:

    print(link)

edited Jan 2 at 18:31

Jeroen Heier

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asked Jan 2 at 16:13

Styxin

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Do not ask code for your complete scenario - ask for solution of just your current issue. Note that "but it won't work for some reason" is bad problem description and "Selenium autotomation" is bad question. Use edit button to make required updates

– Andersson
Jan 2 at 16:28

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I tried to create a bot with Selenium and the goal is to collect the entire contacts which is listed in an online market platform.

I cannot seem to figure out how to do that though.
I tried adding .click() to the element after the bot has revealed 1000 listing but it does not work for some reason.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I want the bot to :

Load the webpage

Press load more until 1000 ads are displayed on the page

Go through each of the 1000 listing, click on them and get the contact information on the next page

Code:

from selenium import webdriver

import time





browser = webdriver.Chrome('C:\Users\IFY\Downloads\chromedriver.exe')

browser.get('https://www.olx.com.ng/abuja_g40000000068')

elems = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('EIR5N')

button = browser.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="container"]/main/div/section/div/div/div[4]/div[2]/div/div[3]/button""")

link = browser.find_elements_by_class_name("_1X63c")





while len(elems) < 10000:

    button.send_keys("n")

else:

    print(link)

edited Jan 2 at 18:31

Jeroen Heier

2,18942027

asked Jan 2 at 16:13

Styxin

308

4

Do not ask code for your complete scenario - ask for solution of just your current issue. Note that "but it won't work for some reason" is bad problem description and "Selenium autotomation" is bad question. Use edit button to make required updates

– Andersson
Jan 2 at 16:28

add a comment |

I tried to create a bot with Selenium and the goal is to collect the entire contacts which is listed in an online market platform.

I cannot seem to figure out how to do that though.
I tried adding .click() to the element after the bot has revealed 1000 listing but it does not work for some reason.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I want the bot to :

Load the webpage

Press load more until 1000 ads are displayed on the page

Go through each of the 1000 listing, click on them and get the contact information on the next page

Code:

from selenium import webdriver

import time





browser = webdriver.Chrome('C:\Users\IFY\Downloads\chromedriver.exe')

browser.get('https://www.olx.com.ng/abuja_g40000000068')

elems = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('EIR5N')

button = browser.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="container"]/main/div/section/div/div/div[4]/div[2]/div/div[3]/button""")

link = browser.find_elements_by_class_name("_1X63c")





while len(elems) < 10000:

    button.send_keys("n")

else:

    print(link)

edited Jan 2 at 18:31

Jeroen Heier

2,18942027

asked Jan 2 at 16:13

Styxin

308

I tried to create a bot with Selenium and the goal is to collect the entire contacts which is listed in an online market platform.

I cannot seem to figure out how to do that though.
I tried adding .click() to the element after the bot has revealed 1000 listing but it does not work for some reason.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I want the bot to :

Load the webpage

Press load more until 1000 ads are displayed on the page

Go through each of the 1000 listing, click on them and get the contact information on the next page

Code:

from selenium import webdriver

import time





browser = webdriver.Chrome('C:\Users\IFY\Downloads\chromedriver.exe')

browser.get('https://www.olx.com.ng/abuja_g40000000068')

elems = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('EIR5N')

button = browser.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="container"]/main/div/section/div/div/div[4]/div[2]/div/div[3]/button""")

link = browser.find_elements_by_class_name("_1X63c")





while len(elems) < 10000:

    button.send_keys("n")

else:

    print(link)

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edited Jan 2 at 18:31

Jeroen Heier

2,18942027

asked Jan 2 at 16:13

Styxin

308

edited Jan 2 at 18:31

Jeroen Heier

2,18942027

asked Jan 2 at 16:13

Styxin

308

edited Jan 2 at 18:31

Jeroen Heier

2,18942027

edited Jan 2 at 18:31

Jeroen Heier

2,18942027

edited Jan 2 at 18:31

Jeroen Heier

2,18942027

asked Jan 2 at 16:13

Styxin

308

asked Jan 2 at 16:13

Styxin

308

asked Jan 2 at 16:13

Styxin

308

4

Do not ask code for your complete scenario - ask for solution of just your current issue. Note that "but it won't work for some reason" is bad problem description and "Selenium autotomation" is bad question. Use edit button to make required updates

– Andersson
Jan 2 at 16:28

add a comment |

4

Do not ask code for your complete scenario - ask for solution of just your current issue. Note that "but it won't work for some reason" is bad problem description and "Selenium autotomation" is bad question. Use edit button to make required updates

– Andersson
Jan 2 at 16:28

Do not ask code for your complete scenario - ask for solution of just your current issue. Note that "but it won't work for some reason" is bad problem description and "Selenium autotomation" is bad question. Use edit button to make required updates

– Andersson
Jan 2 at 16:28

add a comment |

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