I am running this code:
from selenium import webdriver
from `selenium.webdriver.firefox.options` import Options
Setup:
options = Options()
options.add_argument(“–headless”)
def get_results(search_term):
url = “https://www.wikipaedia.org”
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options, executable_path=r”/usr/local/bin/geckodriver”)
browser.get(url)
search_box = browser.find_element_by_id(“query”)
search_box.send_keys(search_term)
search_box.submit()
try:
links = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(“//ol[@class=’web_regular_results’]//h3//a”)
except:
links = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(“//h3//a”)
results = []
for link in links:
href = link.get_attribute(“href”)
print(href)
results.append(href)
browser.close()
return results
I’m getting error messages:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “search_items.py”, line 37, in <module>
get_results(“dog”)
File “search_items.py”, line 13, in get_results
search_box = browser.find_element_by_id(“query”)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py”, line 351, in find_element_by_id
return self.find_element(by=By.ID, value=id_)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py”, line 955, in find_element
‘value’: value})[‘value’]
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py”, line 312, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py”, line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: [id=”query”]
I have tried to solve but it is beyond me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
