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Reputation: 2389

Selenium::Remote::Driver - stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

EDIT: a few seconds after page loads a cookies warning gets added to the page (which I didn't notice before, and of course I accepted it manually in my browser a long time ago)... which, I guess, invalidates whatever happened before that. so I just added wait after the get() and its all good now.

stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document error while looping over WebElements found with find_elements() after the first element.

Trying to run this simple script 

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature qw/say/;

use Selenium::Chrome;
my $driver = Selenium::Chrome->new( binary => 'C:/path-to/chromedriver.exe' );

$driver->get( 'https://...' );

my $pdf_links = $driver->find_elements('//a[@class="file-link"]');

for my $link (@$pdf_links) {
    my $filename = $driver->find_child_element($link, "./span")->get_text();
    say $filename;
}

and I get this error:

first-file-name.pdf
Error while executing command: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
  (Session info: chrome=75.0.3770.100)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=75.0.3770.90 (a6dcaf7e3ec6f70a194cc25e8149475c6590e025-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1003})
,platform=Windows NT 10.0.18362 x86_64) at C:/<path>/perl/perl/site/lib/Selenium/Remote/Driver.pm line 403.

 at C:/<path>/perl/perl/site/lib/Selenium/Remote/Driver.pm line 353.

The @$pdf_links has over 160 elements, but find_child_element() only works on 1st iteration.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (1)

flamey
flamey

Reputation: 2389

А few seconds after page loads a "cookies warning" gets added to the page (which I didn't notice before, and, of course, I accepted it manually in my browser a long time ago)... which, I guess, invalidates whatever happened before that. So, I just added a wait after the get() and its all good now.

Upvotes: 1

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