no such element: Unable to locate element using chromedriver and Selenium in production environment

Question

I have a problem with selenium chromedriver which I cannot figure out what\'s causing it. Some weeks ago everything was working OK, and suddenly this error started to show u

Answer 1

You need to wait until the element is visible or else you will get this error. Try something like this:

from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support.expected_conditions import visibility_of_element_located
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
TIMEOUT = 5

...
xpath = '//*[@id="sidebar"]/ul/li[1]/a'
WebDriverWait(self.selenium, TIMEOUT).until(visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, xpath)))
browser.find_element_by_xpath(xpath)
...