Clear caches in Chrome browser using selenium Chrome driver

Question

I am coding with Python 3 and Selenium. I want automatically clear the cache in chrome, the timeframe does not matter.

This is my current solution:

driver.get('chrome://settings/clearBrowserData')
time.sleep(3)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//settings-ui').send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
time.sleep(10)

This solution however does not click the "Delete Data" Button and I dont know why...

Chromedriver version is 85.0.4183.87 and Selenium 3.141.

Can you provide a [mre] also what are the versions of chrome and the driver? — Sabito stands with Ukraine, Oct 10 '20 at 17:52
based on your chrome version I belive [this comment](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32970855/clear-cache-before-running-some-selenium-webdriver-tests-using-java#comment109037276_59102655) explains why this doesn't work. — Sabito stands with Ukraine, Oct 10 '20 at 18:03
Chromedriver version is 85.0.4183.87 and Selenium 3.141. The problem is this line: driver.find_element_by_xpath('//settings-ui').send_keys(Keys.ENTER) I do not get an error message but the script just does not click the button. — Marten, Oct 10 '20 at 18:22
Quoting the aforementioned comment : *"This selector no longer returns any elements in 81.0.4"* — Sabito stands with Ukraine, Oct 10 '20 at 18:28
Yes, Ive read it. Still yesterday these code lines still were working. :( — Marten, Oct 10 '20 at 18:34
Please edit the versions of both Chromedriver and Selenium into your question itself. — Sabito stands with Ukraine, Oct 10 '20 at 18:36
I personally don't know but this is a well-written question (especially after adding all relevant details) so now we wait for someone who is following the [tag:selenium] tag to come and answer it. Might take a while. — Sabito stands with Ukraine, Oct 11 '20 at 02:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '22 at 14:05

You can use Actions + Keyboard keys to reach this button (Tab and Enter). You need to press Tab 7 times and then, Enter. So, use: TabX(7); Enter();. Works fine for me (C#).

    public void TabX(int valor)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < valor; i++)
        {
            Actions act = new Actions(driver);
            act.SendKeys(Keys.Tab).Build().Perform();
        }
    }

    public void Enter()
    {
        Actions act = new Actions(driver);
        act.SendKeys(Keys.Enter).Build().Perform();
    }

Clear caches in Chrome browser using selenium Chrome driver

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