[_WD_FindElement] Speed up searching ?

[aRandomGuy]

Hello,

I am working on a website that generate around ~400 <div> tag, 

using this code to fetch them all with chromedriver

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$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession,$_WD_LOCATOR_ByTagName,"div",'',true)
 

i want to click the one at the index of 150  ( $sElement[150] )

Currently i am doing

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For $x=0 To Ubound($sElement)
   If(x==150) then

     ;clicking stuff
   endif
Next

 

This works fine, However i realize that since the number of <div> tag is huge ( ~400), the loading speeding is extremely slow

AND since i want to click exactly at the index of 150, are there  any way to achieve this with less effort ?

Thank you !

[ioa747]

 

#include <Array.au3>

Local $aData = StringSplit("i want to click the one at the index of 150", "")
;~ _ArrayDisplay($aData)

;case if i know that is in line 15
Local $Ln = 15
ConsoleWrite($aData[$Ln] & " if i know that is in line " & $Ln & @CRLF)

;case I don't know the line
For $i = 1 To $aData[0]
    If $aData[$i] = "k" Then
        ConsoleWrite($aData[$i] & " found in line " & $i & @CRLF)
        ExitLoop ; if it finds it, it can exit the loop, you don't need it to go all the way
    EndIf
Next

 

Edit:
If(x==150) then
== is not the correct expression here, (a waste of time)
== Tests if two strings are equal. Case-sensitive. The left and right values are converted to strings if they are not strings already.

Edited October 28, 2023 by ioa747

[mLipok]

Did you already look at _WD_GetElementByRegEx() ?

[mLipok]

Btw. There is always a better way to determine the correct XPath / CSSQuery. Please share the link to website or at least use browser extensions like SavePage WE to save website to single MHTML file, anonymyze the MHTML fle content and share to us.

Edited October 28, 2023 by mLipok

[Danp2]

This should be easy with the correct xpath --

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession,$_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath,"//div[150]")
_WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, 'click')

 

[aRandomGuy]

On 10/28/2023 at 6:00 PM, Danp2 said:

This should be easy with the correct xpath --

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession,$_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath,"//div[150]")
_WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, 'click')

 

thank you Dan, but this does not work in my case

i found another solution : 

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession,$_WD_LOCATOR_ByTagName,"div",'',true)

_WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement[150], 'click')

[Danp2]

The problem with solutions based on position (ie: my "//div[150]" and your "$sElement[150]") is that they will likely fail in the future whenever the site is modified. Have you tried using one of the tools listed in the wiki to come up with an xpath this is more likely to survive a site change?