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Unable to select UI element on Google Trends page (Chrome, Edge, FireFox)

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Hi, I am using Launch New Browser (Chrome, Edge, FF) to navigate to this below URL.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2020-01-01 2020-12-31,2019-01-01 2019-12-31,2018-01-01 2018-12-31&geo=US,US,US&q=how to cook ramps,how to cook ramps,how to cook ramps

On the page, I am trying to click this down arrow "download" icon so that I can initiate the download of the CSV file. I tried using Click UI element in window, Click link on web page, Click download link on web page but none of them seems to identify that specific element (highlighting in red box). In fact, it only puts red box on the whole page as "Document" and won't let me select anything else on the page. I've tried recorders as well.

How can I select the UI element on this Google Trends page?

Thank you so much for your help!!

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fraenK 2,125 on at

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The automatic selector building of PAD is not really intelligent, so you have to manually analyze the code and modify it. Deselect everything except the button using class and ordinal:
button[Class="widget-actions-item export"]:eq(0)

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Hi @Anonymous

@fraenK is quick on the keys! I was just doing the same.

I used the scroll wheel and held down the ctrl button and came back with a similar result for Windows UI Element (not browser) and removed all the rubbish that is detected to come up with the following.

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Cheers,
Damien

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Hi @fraenK and @DamoBird365 , thank you for your quick reply. How do I view all the source code that I selected and to select only the element? I'm a newbie so thank you!!

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@Anonymous, execute JS on the page. Not many hoops to jump through. Here's what I have:
In case that JS is too hard to read, it's this:

function ExecuteScript() { document.querySelector("button[title='CSV']").click(); }

SelectorsHub (look for it on the Chrome web store) is useful for me to grab selectors of all kinds.

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fraenK 2,125 on at

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First you need to switch to web automation. Your code shows UI automation.
In your browser right click on the element > inspect
In PAD edit the selector and deselect everything which seems too much, making the selector as short but also as unique as possible.

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fraenK 2,125 on at

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There are multiple buttons with the same title. Lets not make it more complicated with JS, PAD's web selector work fine when modified.

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Hi @burque505 , thank you so much for your help. I tried to follow the steps but am getting this error which seems odd since it launches Chrome and loads the URL fine. And I'm not seeing the CSV being downloaded.

Failed to assume control of Chrome (Internal error or communication failure).

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fraenK 2,125 on at

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Did you install the PAD browser extension for Chrome? Btw. don't use JS where it isn't necessary, mixing scripts makes the automation much harder to maintain and to migrate.

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burque505 398 on at

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Okay, there's only one of these:
Personally I don't find it any more difficult to grab a selector with SelectorsHub and paste it into the PAD action than to modify the web selector.

There's usually more than one way to skin a cat and it doesn't hurt to know more than one.

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@Anonymous, I often (actually way too often) get that error 😥 when I forget to close down Chrome while debugging a script. Could that be it? You might try making sure all Chromes are killed before you run that again.

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