Python Selenium: I am getting element is not attached to the page document error

Question

I am trying to build a scraper using selenium package for python but I am getting this error:

Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the pag         


        

Answer 1

Before you attempt to interact with the desired elements you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategy:

import selenium
driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver',chrome_options=chrome_options)
titles=[]
for link in links:
  driver.get(link)
  data = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class = 'question-hyperlink']")))
  titles.append(data[0].text)