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pythonselenium-webdriverstaleelementreferenceexception
Shoto Venkatesh
Shoto Venkatesh

Reputation: 94

selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: stale element not found

I am trying to click on all the products from this link. I wanted to click on all the products(click on the first product, come back, click on the second product, and so forth till the last product). But as soon as the loop reaches the second product, I get a stale element not found error. I've tried implicit wait, time. sleep. I couldn't solve it. Any help would be appreciated

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common import StaleElementReferenceException
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://foodkoreadubai.com/collections/beverages")
time.sleep(10)
try:
    popup_element = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "popup-close")
    close_button = popup_element.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".icon-close")
    close_button.click()
    time.sleep(4)
except StaleElementReferenceException:
    print("Pop up did not pop up")
finally:
    box_product_elements = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".box.product")
    i = 1
    last_product = len(box_product_elements)
    while i < last_product:
        box_product_elements[i].click()
        driver.back()
        i += 1
        time.sleep(2)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 646

Answers (1)

Yaroslavm
Yaroslavm

Reputation: 4829

You got StaleElementReferenceException, because you clicked driver.back() and page with product is re-rendered, so previous WebElements instances don't exist anymore on newly rendered page.

You need to get elements array again to handle this.

# your code

box_product_elements = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".box.product")
i = 1
last_product = len(box_product_elements)
while i < last_product:
    driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".box.product")[i].click()
    driver.back()
    i+=1

Upvotes: 1

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