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Vikram Kumar
Vikram Kumar

Reputation: 11

Selenium giving error: "selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: invalid argument: invalid locator"

I attempted to retrieve an tag using its classname from a webpage using Selenium.

I wrote the following:

import os
from selenium import webdriver

def launchBrowser():
    os.environ['PATH'] += r"/SeleniumDrivers/chromedriver_mac_arm64"
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
    #driver.implicitly_wait(15)
    driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find_element_by_id-driver-method-selenium-python/")
    element = driver.find_element("class_name", "header-main_wrapper")
    #element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class=bp3-button bp3-minimal]")
    #link = element.get_attribute("href")
    #link.click()
    while(True):
        pass

launchBrowser()

After debugging element = driver.find_element("class_name", "header-main_wrapper") returns the error above. I'm unsure why. I think I followed the method signature properly which is why I'm unsure what I'm doing wrong.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 343

Answers (1)

Shawn
Shawn

Reputation: 8508

Change the below line:

element = driver.find_element("class_name", "header-main_wrapper")

To:

element = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "header-main_wrapper")

Imports required:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

Upvotes: 1

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