CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonselenium
user11967943
user11967943

Reputation:

Not a valid XPath expression

I am getting error while running the program, If i check my xpath in chropath it gives no error in path but while running i am getting error "valid XPath expression."

<article xpath="1">
<div class="imagen">
  <img src="https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bhgCVGl6BDXS8BfcUGzWU5EWnMb.jpg"> 
  <div id="c28153" data-nonce="9f7f7584d7" data-id="28153" data-type="movie" class="cimport">

</div>
</div>
<div class="data">
    <h3>It's Alive</h3>
    <span>1974</span>
</div>
</article>

PYTHON CODE:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//h3[translate(. ," - ; : ! , . * ? / \' " , " " )='its live']//preceding::img[1]//following::div[1]').click()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 461

Answers (2)

Moshe Slavin
Moshe Slavin

Reputation: 5214

You need to use:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//h3[translate(. ," - ; : ! , . * ? / \' " , " " )=\'its live\']//preceding::img[1]//following::div[1]').click()

just adding \ before the inner '.

Upvotes: 2

Florian Bernard
Florian Bernard

Reputation: 2569

Replace you Xpath string by this one : 

'//h3[translate(. ," - ; : ! , . * ? / \' " , " " )="its live"]//preceding::img[1]//following::div[1]'

The probleme you have its a mixing of quote, that prematuraly end the string.

Upvotes: 1

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