Selenium in Java: Not able to locate element on Amazon

Question

I am trying to get the text for Rating of any product on Amazon but I am unable to write the correct code. I don't understand what I am doing wrong here. Here its not even able to locate the element. Also I don't think xpath is wrong because I checked with Firepath.

Below is the code:

public static void main(String args[])
{
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "D:\\Eclipse and workspace\\eclipse\\geckodriver.exe");
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

    driver.get("https://www.amazon.in/");

    WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.id("twotabsearchtextbox"));

    elem.sendKeys("Camera DSLR");

    driver.findElement(By.className("nav-input")).click();


    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,10);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath(".//*[@id='result_0']/div/div/div/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div[1]/span/span/a/i[1]/span")));

    WebElement elem2 = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='result_0']/div/div/div/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/div[1]/span/span/a/i[1]/span"));
    elem2.getText();

}

Please help me out.

There are 2 elements with the class name `nav-input` a button and an input text. To which control does `driver.findElement(By.className("nav-input")).click();` this works? — Master Po, May 28 '17 at 10:35
yes it does.. only the last one doesn't. The last one is to get the rating of the product. — Ritesh Gupta, May 28 '17 at 10:39

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '17 at 10:42

The span element you want to get contains text like "4.4 out of 5 stars", but actually you see just an icon with the stars, so it's bad idea to use visibilityOfElementLocated condition as it won't be visible anyway.

Try to use presenceOfElementLocated instead:

WebElement elem2 = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//a[@class='a-popover-trigger a-declarative']//span[@class='a-icon-alt']")));
elem2.getAttribute("textContent");

Note that to get text content of invisible span you should use getAttribute("textContent") instead of getText()

Thank you so much. It helped. :) – Ritesh Gupta May 28 '17 at 11:28 — Ritesh Gupta, May 28 '17 at 11:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '17 at 11:07

Use dynamic xpath instead of absolute xpath:

By.xpath("//*[contains(@class,'a-icon-star')]//*[contains(@class,'a-icon-alt')]")

And as rightly pointed out by @Andersson,

Use presenceOfElementLocated instead of visibilityOfElementLocated as tooltips are designed to be invisible.
Use textContent attribute for invisible elements such as tooltips instead of getText().

Selenium in Java: Not able to locate element on Amazon

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