I am trying to click on an element but getting the error: Element is not clickable at point (x,y.5) because another element obscures it. I have already tried moving to that element first and then clicking and also changing the co-ordinates by minimizing the window and then clicking, but both methods failed. T…
Tag: selenium-webdriver
Reducing size of pyinstaller exe
I have a simple pandas pyinstaller exe which is over 40MB. My exe example: 40MB+ for this seems a bit overkill. How can I reduce this as much as possible? One method: This however is not practical considering how big the exclusion list would be. How do I select a folder for pyinstaller to get modules from and…
How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?
I’m working on a python script to web-scrape and have gone down the path of using Chromedriver as one of the packages. I would like this to operate in the background without any pop-up windows. I’m using the option ‘headless’ on chromedriver and it seems to do the job in terms of not s…
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘selenium’
I get an error while running this selenium script. Please suggest what can be done to fix this: Script: Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:/Users/admin/Desktop/test2.py”, line 2, in from selenium import webdriver ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘selenium’ I have ins…
Scroll in Selenium Webdriver (Python)
Prerequisites. You need an account at Instagram to use this script. Setup a test environment: Log in, open the needed list(works correctly): Wrong scroll. How to fix this block? How to focus and scroll correctly on this page? My attempts: ============================================================= to @Moshi…
Selenium webdriver functions are not showing in autosuggestion list pycharm
I have installed Python pip selenium pycharm. all works but I see that the autosuggestion box doesn’t show the web driver functions. is there a reason for this? Selenium is installed for project interpreter in pycharm This is how autosuggest list looks like And this is how i expect it to look like Answe…
Selenium leaves behind running processes?
When my selenium program crashes due to some error, it seems to leave behind running processes. For example, here is my process list: Here is my code: Sometimes, the browser doesn’t load the webpage elements quickly enough so Selenium crashes when it tries to click on something it didn’t find. Oth…
Selenium-Debugging: Element is not clickable at point (X,Y)
I try to scrape this site by Selenium. I want to click in “Next Page” buttom, for this I do: it works for many pages but not for all, I got this error always for this page I read this question and I tried this but I got the same error Answer Another element is covering the element you are
How to exit dropdown menu in selenium webdriver
I am using selenium webdriver with Chrome. I am able to select item from dropdown menu and it works fine. But it there is no item in dropdown items after that I cannot select any other field. I put this is try catch block so it goes to next steps. If I try to select other field and sendKeys it
Slow scrolling down the page using Selenium
I’m trying to scrape some data from flight search page. This page works this way: You fill in a form and then you click on the button search – this is ok. When you click the button you are redirected to the page with results and here is the problem. This page is adding continuously results for exa…