How to click on the verification message and button within https://www.tempinbox.xyz/mailbox/[email protected] using Selenium Python

Question

I wanted to go to a page by clicking a button. First i needed to click on the mail, and then click on "this is me"

time.sleep(10)
second_tab = webdriver.Chrome()
second_tab.get("https://www.tempinbox.xyz/mailbox/[email protected]")
clickmails= second_tab.find_element_by_xpath("//div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]").click()
time.sleep(5)
clickverilink=second_tab.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(.,'This is me!')]").click()

But for some reason, whenever I click this, it redirects me to a random ad page. Where am i wrong?

Answer 1

To click first on the on the mail-item with text as Activate your Wattpad account and then to click on This is me! button you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
  options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("https://www.tempinbox.xyz/mailbox/[email protected]")
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div#mails div.message"))).click()
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "table.container#container table.row#row2 tbody td#maincontent a"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
  options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("https://www.tempinbox.xyz/mailbox/[email protected]")
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@id='mails']//div[@class='message']"))).click()
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//table[@class='container' and @id='container']//table[@class='row' and @id='row2']//tbody//td[@id='maincontent']//a[contains(., 'This is me!')]"))).click()
  

• Browser Snapshot: