Here's my insight.

First of all, you need to wait for the page to load in order to interact with the Print button. The best way to go is to use built-in mechanism: selenium waits - wait for the Print button to be clickable:

// open print dropdown

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector(button.print-button))).click();



// click print button

WebElement printButton = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(button.print-popup-button));

printButton.click();

Okay, if you run it using ChromeDriver:

package com.company;



import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;





public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String url = https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.4515849,-3.6903752/41.380896,2.1228198/@40.4515849,-3.6903752/am=t/?hl=en;



        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        driver.get(url);



        // open print dropdown

        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

        wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector(button.print-button))).click();



        // click print button

        WebElement printButton = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(button.print-popup-button));

        printButton.click();



        // now what? 

    }

}

You'll see the Chrome Print Preview dialog, which is, unfortunately, out of scope for selenium:

But, there is a hope, if you examine available Chrome arguments, you would see that there is the relevant one:

--disable-print-preview - Disables print preview (For testing, and for users who don't like us. :[ )

Okay, let's try it out:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.addArguments(--disable-print-preview);



WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

driver.get(url);

Now, there is a system print dialog being shown:

Selenium cannot control it too. So, nope, there is no hope. Oh, wait!

Okay, if we are out of scope of selenium, let's use tools that can help us to click that Print button in the dialog - Robot class:

This class is used to generate native system input events for the
purposes of test automation, self-running demos, and other
applications where control of the mouse and keyboard is needed.

We'll initialize the Robot and will send Enter key when the print dialog would show up:

package com.company;



import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;



import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;





public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws AWTException, InterruptedException {

        String url = https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.4515849,-3.6903752/41.380896,2.1228198/@40.4515849,-3.6903752/am=t/?hl=en;



        Robot r = new Robot();

        r.delay(1000);



        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        driver.get(url);



        // open print dropdown

        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

        wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector(button.print-button))).click();



        // click print button

        WebElement printButton = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(button.print-popup-button));

        printButton.click();



        Thread.sleep(2000);



        r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);

        r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);

    }

}

Other options are to use:

• sikuli - you would need an image of the print button in order for sikuli to locate it and click


• autoit

Also see:

• How to handle print dialog in Selenium?