pycharm - Python - Find Xpath value then click button

Question

I'd like to get some advise on how to find a value in certain xpath value, time in my case: 7:30pm. Then in the same level click on an add button. (there are many other same button in the page with a different time value). Reference to attached picture, really appreciate any help.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65866131/python-find-xpath-value-then-click-button

Answer 1

Probably every web browser in DevTools has function to get XPATH on right click.

But you could try also find unique ID or CLASS (or other unique value - ie. style=...) for element. Or unique value for its parent or grandparent.

If there are many similar elements then you can get all of them and later use index - all_times[1] - to work only with one element.

It seems your element has unique headers="Times" which you could use in xpath.

You can also relative xpath (starting with dot .) and search partially - first find tr, next find .//td[@headers="Times"] in this tr and next find .//td[@headers="Avaliable"]/div/a in the same tr

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EDIT:

If I couldn't find unique elements then I would get all tr because it is parent for Times and Avaliable and I can use relative xpath to search one Times and one Avaliable in single tr - and then use for-loop

 all_tr = html.xpath("//tr")

 for tr in all_tr: 

     # relative xpath in `tr` (using `.` at start)
     header = tr.xpath('.//td[@headers="Times"')

     if "7:30" in header[0].text: 

         # relative xpath in `tr` (using `.` at start)
         avaliable = tr.xpath('.//td[@headers="Avaliable"]')

         avaliable[0].click()