[FIXED] How to bypass human verification 'press and hold' using Selenium in Python?

Issue

I am trying to scrape some product reviews using Selenium and Python from this site but it connects another site and shows a popup at any point randomly, where I need to press and hold the button for human verification.

I am using chrome web driver and tried to solve it, to get the path using driver.find_element_by_xpath and many other ways. I also found that the 'Press and Hold' button is inside an iframe and so tried to switch to the iframe by driver.switch_to_frame('//iframe') or driver.switch_to_frame(0) but I failed. I can't find any iframe name or id to take any action.

Is there any way to bypass or take action (pressing and holding the button) whenever it occurs (as a site or popup) and also dismiss other popups during the process using selenium and python? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Solution

Jacob's solution from this issue here solves this problem.

import time
from selenium import webdriver as wd
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

driver = wd.Chrome('./web driver/chromedriver.exe')
target_url = 'https://www.walmart.com/blocked?url=L2lwL0Nsb3JveC1EaXNpbmZlY3RpbmctV2lwZXMtMjI1LUNvdW50LVZhbHVlLVBhY2stQ3Jpc3AtTGVtb24tYW5kLUZyZXNoLVNjZW50LTMtUGFjay03NS1Db3VudC1FYWNoLzE0ODk4MzY1&uuid=9ed7f800-f288-11eb-ad50-1b3c9c7d7310&vid=9cf07351-f288-11eb-9ab5-ef26d206453b&g=b'
driver.get(target_url)
driver.maximize_window()

element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#px-captcha')
action = ActionChains(driver)
action.click_and_hold(element)
action.perform()
time.sleep(10)
action.release(element)
action.perform()
time.sleep(0.2)
action.release(element)

Answered By - Dalma Sikder Zisa

Answer Checked By - Terry (PHPFixing Volunteer)