Python Selenium Tutorial #2 - Locating Elements From HTML
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Stack Overflow users mostly mention it as the tutorial they were following when their code broke, often because the video's older Selenium API calls no longer work.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What it is
A 16-minute Python Selenium tutorial from Tech With Tim, the second in a series, showing how to locate elements on a webpage by ID, class name, name and other attributes. The demo searches a website and lists the results.
What people said
Recommends Shawn · 2021-05 · Stack Overflow · on “How to restart webdriver Selenium when script is finished”
We do the same thing here where we test when we want to attempt a "retry" of a test. One thing to note in your code above; you give no wait time for the "cool-button" to appear, become clickable or it's presence known; that will often lead to a failing result. I added support for that; as well as encompassed the entire code in an keyboard interrupted while loop. from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC import time try: while True: driver = webdriver.Chrome() url = " [LINK] " driver.get(url) try: button = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.p
Cites wheedwhackerjones · 2021-09 · Stack Overflow · on “Selenium - Failed to Establish New Connection”
I'm following this tutorial and pasted the exact code from the video: [this video] from selenium import webdriver PATH = "/home/matt/learnselenium/chromedriver" driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH) driver.get(" [LINK] ") print(driver.title) driver.quit() search = driver.find_element_by_name("s") search.send_keys("test") search.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) time.sleep(5) driver.quit() And I get the following error: urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='127.0.0.1', port=54375): Max retries exceeded with url: /session/efc07a083600a61c9bc65e262061dd37/element (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f254da226a0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Er
Cites Herkul · 2022-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Selenium find_all method raises AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find_elements'”
I was watching a YouTube Tutorial video about Selenium for python Python Selenium Tutorial - Tech with Tim [this video] . The video was uploaded 2 years ago and it seems there are changes in Selenium for python (the find_elements_by_... functions were replaced by find_elements(by = ...) ). My problem is, when I try to convert the code, I get an AttributeError as: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find_elements' . I am sharing both the old and new version of the code. What is the difference between the old version and why am I getting the following error? How can I fix it? Thanks in advance! ###Old Version### from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import K