AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'click' using Selenium Python

Question

I am not able to accept the cookie button it is always showing me error as:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'click'

Also my browser is getting closed automatically.

Snapshot of the code and error:

Answer 1

The line of code you have used:

cookie_accept = driver.find_element(by=By.LINK_TEXT, value="Sign in")

doesn't identify any element within the HTML DOM. Hence cookie_accept remains NULL. So you can't invoke click on the NULL object and you see the error:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'click'

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Solution

The desired element is a dynamic element, so to click on the clickable element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  driver.get('https://hub.knime.com/')
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.accept-button.button.primary"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  driver.get('https://hub.knime.com/')  
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[contains(., 'login or register')]"))).click()
  

• Note: You have to add the following imports :

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

• Browser snapshot: