I am writing a scraper for https://etherscan.io/ using selenium in python. I am getting StaleElementReferenceException in my code when it clicks on a button and not finding any good source to solve this error.
This is the code
url = "https://etherscan.io/login?"
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get(url)
username = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_txtUserName"]')
username.send_keys('user')
password = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_txtPassword"]')
password.send_keys('pass')
login = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_btnLogin"]')
login.click()
more = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="moreMegaMenu"]')
more.click()
word_cloud = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="LI41"]/a').click()
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'html.parser')
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
dropdown = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.dropdown-toggle')
for ele in dropdown:
ele.click()
time.sleep(1)
account = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'.d-block')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", account)
time.sleep(1)
driver.execute_script("window.history.go(-1)")
Error Message:
StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
(Session info: chrome=100.0.4896.75)
StaleElementReferenceException Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-108-2804d338c51f> in <module>
1 dropdown = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.dropdown-toggle')
2 for ele in dropdown:
----> 3 ele.click() # this is the line where it is showing error
4 time.sleep(1)
5 account = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'.d-block')))
CodePudding user response:
@cruisepandey solution is ok, but I think mine is a bit simpler. Also, in my case, his solution redirects to a wrong page (to homepage).
url = "https://etherscan.io/login?"
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get(url)
username = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_txtUserName"]')
username.send_keys('user')
password = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_txtPassword"]')
password.send_keys('pass')
login = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_btnLogin"]')
login.click()
more = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="moreMegaMenu"]')
more.click()
word_cloud = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="LI41"]/a').click()
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'html.parser')
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
num_elements = len(driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.dropdown-toggle'))
for i in range(num_elements):
ele = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.dropdown-toggle')[i]
ele.click()
time.sleep(1)
account = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, f'//*[@id="content"]/div[3]/div/div/div[3]/div[{i 1}]/div/div/a[1]')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", account)
time.sleep(1)
driver.execute_script("window.history.go(-1)")
time.sleep(1)
CodePudding user response:
Problem explanation:
When you are clicking on account like below:
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", account)
this is redirecting you to a new page
within the same tab and windows
.
However, when you go back to main page using:
driver.execute_script("window.history.go(-1)")
Now, the elements have become stale in nature.
Also, you should really click on more
button instead hover over it using ActionChain.
And this line
account = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'.d-block')))
won't work for the second and the subsequent element cause .d-block
is not the right locator for all other dropdown. Instead, use a relative xpath
.//following-sibling::div/a
Solution:
Keep defining the web element in the loop.
Code:
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
url = "https://etherscan.io/login?"
driver.maximize_window()
#driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get(url)
username = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_txtUserName"]')
username.send_keys('user')
password = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_txtPassword"]')
password.send_keys('pass')
login = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_btnLogin"]')
login.click()
try:
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button#btnCookie"))).click()
print('clicked on cookies button successfully.')
except:
print('could not clicked on cookies button.')
pass
more = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='moreMegaMenu']")))
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(more).pause(2).perform()
word_cloud = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='LI41']/a")))
word_cloud.click()
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'html.parser')
dropdown = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.dropdown-toggle')
i = 1
for ele in dropdown:
ele = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, f"(//button[contains(@class,'dropdown-toggle')])[{i}]")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", ele)
ele.click()
time.sleep(1)
account = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, ".//following-sibling::div/a")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", account)
time.sleep(1)
driver.execute_script("window.history.go(-1)")
i = i 1
Output:
clicked on cookies button successfully.
ETHER PRICE $3,244.85 @ 0.07608 BTC ( 1.09%)
ETHER PRICE $3,244.85 @ 0.07608 BTC ( 1.09%)
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