Copying Xpath directly to Selenium does not work

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Copying Xpath directly to Selenium does not work



I have been trying to rightclick and copypaste an Xpath directly from a website, in which I get this


//*[@id="WishList"]/div[4]/div/p[1]



Then I try doing the following:


a = driver.find_element_by_xpath(By.XPATH('//* [@id="WishList"]/div[4]/div/p[1]'))



However, I get the error "str" object is not callable. Is it not possible to directly copy-paste Xpaths?




1 Answer
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Your code line is syntactically incorrect



Try one of below instead:


a = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//* [@id="WishList"]/div[4]/div/p[1]')
a = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//* [@id="WishList"]/div[4]/div/p[1]')
a = driver.find_element('xpath', '//* [@id="WishList"]/div[4]/div/p[1]')



Note that in Python By.XPATH is not a method (as in Java) but a simple string: By.XPATH == 'xpath'


By.XPATH


By.XPATH == 'xpath'



If you want to locate dynamic element, try


from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

a = wait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//* [@id="WishList"]/div[4]/div/p[1]')))





None of them works, it simply says "Unable to locate element", yet it's a direct copypaste from chrome with the inspection tool :(
– Soxty
Aug 10 at 18:45





You've copied from already rendered page (JavaScript executed), but your script is trying to find element before JavaScript executed. Another possible problem - element might be located inside an iframe
– Andersson
Aug 10 at 18:47


iframe





Oh, how would I go about finding the true xpath then? I've copypasted the html into a pastebin file here: pastebin.com/BWvY68zM . I want to get all the <p class="head" ones where there is text within them, I have no idea how to find their xpaths tho, any ideas?
– Soxty
Aug 10 at 18:53





Simply try //p[@class="head"]
– Andersson
Aug 10 at 18:55


//p[@class="head"]





I sadly already tried this, it prompts the exact same error: selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: "method":"xpath","selector":"//p[@class="head"]"
– Soxty
Aug 10 at 18:57







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