Exploring Selenium Web Driver using Python with Chrome driver has been an interesting journey for me. I discovered that while I was able to make it click a button with English text, it failed to do so when the text was in Hebrew. To illustrate this issue, I tested it on Google(.co.il).
Clicking the Gmail button worked perfectly fine, but attempting to click on "תמונות" (which means photos in Hebrew) resulted in an error. The exception error couldn't even be written properly (UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 86-91: ordinal not in range(128)).
Here is the code snippet I used:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import time
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:\Users\User-PC\Desktop\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("http://www.google.co.il/")
linkslist = [u'תמונות']
try:
button = driver.find_element_by_link_text(linkslist[0])
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
button.click()
print(driver.current_url)
except Exception as er:
print "Error: ", format(er)
driver.close()
driver.quit()