Hi I am trying to figure it out how to pick day from the calendar in Python. I would like to select the date 04/27/2022 under requested loading date. I read some post related to this but I could not figure it out. This is what I did so far but not working.
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driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
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link = "https://www.freightquote.com/"
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driver.get(link)
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sleep(2)
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driver.maximize_window()
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#click Accept
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WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@id='truste-consent-button']"))).click()
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#Scroll down:
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total_height = int(driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight"))
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[enter image description here][1]for i in range(1, 500, 5):
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driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, {});".format(i))
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WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//input[@class="datepicker-here hasDatepicker-od" and @id="txtShippingDate" ]'))).click()
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WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//div[@class="datepicker--cell datepicker--cell-day" and @data-date="27" and @data-month="3" an @data-year="2022"]'))).click()
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Answer
You do not really have to click on calendar and select a value, you can just execute the JS command like below:
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driver.maximize_window()
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wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30)
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driver.get("https://www.freightquote.com/")
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try:
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wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "truste-consent-button"))).click()
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print("Clicked on cookies accept button")
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except:
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pass
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time.sleep(5)
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requested_loading_date = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "txtShippingDate")))
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driver.execute_script("arguments[0].value = arguments[1]", requested_loading_date, "04/27/2022")
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Imports:
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import time
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from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
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from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
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from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
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