Vba - webscraping using ng-click

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I am using Selenium and I would like to be able to click on the following

<a ng-click="download()">download</a>'

This is an 'a' tag. I am not sure how the code would be like to click onto an 'a' tag that has got ng-click in it.

  Dim d As WebDriver
  Set d = New ChromeDriver
Const URL = "url of the website - not public"
With d
    .Start "Chrome"
    .get URL
    .Window.Maximize
    .FindElementById("Search").SendKeys "information to search"
    .Wait 1000
    .FindElementById("Submit").Click
    .Wait 1000
    'then I need to click the following <a ng-click="download()">download</a>
End With

Only step I am missing is to be able to click on that last bit. Thank you for the help in advance :)

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– ComputerVersteher, Commented Aug 17, 2019 at 22:40

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-17 22:23:10Z

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The desired element is an Angular element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using FindElementByCss:

d.FindElementByCss("a[ng-click^='download']").click

Using FindElementByXPath:

d.FindElementByXPath("//a[starts-with(@ng-click, 'download') and text()='download']").click

answered Aug 17, 2019 at 22:23

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frianH · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-17 03:55:38Z

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You can try with xpath :

.FindElementByXPath("//*[@ng-click='download()']").Click

answered Aug 17, 2019 at 3:55

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QHarr · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-17 05:09:34Z

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This is what attribute = value css selectors are for. You can target the ng-click attribute by its value:

d.FindElementByCss("[ng-click='download()']").click

answered Aug 17, 2019 at 5:09

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K.Dᴀᴠɪs · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-16 22:27:40Z

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It would be easier (and more efficient) to see more relevant HTML code, but you can loop through the a tags and find the one that has the text: download. Once found, you can try to click on it then exit the loop.

Dim a As Selenium.WebElement
For Each a In d.FindElementsByTag("a")
    If a.Text = "download" Then
        a.Click
        Exit For
    End If
Next

answered Aug 16, 2019 at 22:27

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Wolf Kolev Over a year ago

Thank you , I will give it a try :)

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