AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click' using Selenium and Python

Question

I'd like to click the button 'Annual' at a page that is by default set on 'Quarterly'. There are two links that are basically called the same, except that one has data-ptype="Annual" so I tryed to copy the xpath to click the button (also tried other options but none did work).

However, I get the AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click'. I read a lot of similar posts, but wasn't able to fix my problem.. so I assume that javascript event must be called/clicked/performed somehow differnt.. idk Im stuck

from selenium import webdriver
link = 'https://www.investing.com/equities/apple-computer-inc-balance-sheet'

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(link)
elm = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]").click()

The html is the following:

<a class="newBtn toggleButton LightGray" href="javascript:void(0);" data-type="rf-type-button" data-ptype="Annual" data-pid="6408" data-rtype="BAL">..</a>

Answer 1

you need to use find_element_by_xpath not find_elements_by_xpath that return a list

driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]").click()

Also i think is better to use Waits for example.

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By    
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options)

path = "/html/body/div[5]/section/div[8]/div[1]/a[1]"
try:
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
                           EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, path)))
    element.click()
finally:
    driver.quit()