Selenium - Python - AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'find

I am trying to get Selenium working with Chrome, but I keep running into this error message (and others like it):

AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'find_element_by_name'

The same problem occurs with find_element_by_id(), find_element_by_class(), etc..

I also could not call send_keys().

I am just running the test code provided here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/getting-started

import time

from selenium import webdriver



driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:/Program Files/Chrome Driver/chromedriver.exe")  # Path to where I installed the web driver

driver.get('http://www.google.com/');

time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!

search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')

search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')

search_box.submit()

time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!

driver.quit()

I am using Google Chrome Version 103.0.5060.53 and downloaded ChromeDriver 103.0.5060.53 from here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

When running the code, Chrome opens and navigates to google.com, but receives the following output:.

C:\Users\Admin\Programming Projects\Python Projects\Clock In\clock_in.py:21: DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object
  driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:/Program Files/Chrome Driver/chromedriver.exe")  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:58397/devtools/browser/edee940d-61e0-4cc3-89e1-2aa08ab16432
[9556:21748:0627/083741.135:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(214)] [08:37:41.131] USB: usb_service_win.cc:415 Could not read device interface GUIDs: The system cannot find the file specified. (0x2)
[9556:21748:0627/083741.149:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(214)] [08:37:41.148] USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1048 Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x1F)
[9556:21748:0627/083741.156:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(214)] [08:37:41.155] USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1048 Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x1F)
[9556:21748:0627/083741.157:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(214)] [08:37:41.156] USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1048 Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x1F)
[9556:21748:0627/083741.157:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(214)] [08:37:41.156] USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1048 Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x1F)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\[REDACTED]", line 27, in <module>
    search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'find_element_by_name'
[21324:19948:0627/083937.892:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(486)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is disabled, ANGLE is

Note: I replaced the file path for this post.

I don't think that the DevTools listening section is related to the issue, but I thought I would include it, just in case.

CodePudding user response：

Selenium just removed that method in version 4.3.0. See the CHANGES: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/a4995e2c096239b42c373f26498a6c9bb4f2b3e7/py/CHANGES

Selenium 4.3.0
* Deprecated find_element_by_* and find_elements_by_* are now removed (#10712)
* Deprecated Opera support has been removed (#10630)
* Fully upgraded from python 2x to 3.7 syntax and features (#10647)
* Added a devtools version fallback mechanism to look for an older version when mismatch occurs (#10749)
* Better support for co-operative multi inheritance by utilising super() throughout
* Improved type hints throughout

You now need to use:

driver.find_element("name", "q")

In your example, it would become:

search_box = driver.find_element("name", "q")

search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')

search_box.submit()

For improved reliability, you should consider using WebDriverWait in combination with element_to_be_clickable.

CodePudding user response：

find_element_by_/find_elements_by_ are deprecated. you can use find_element() instead

first have to import:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

then you can use it with:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, " ")
driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, " ")

driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, " ")
driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, " ")

etc.. see find_element() API for all usage