selenium-webdriver

How do you use EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, “myDynamicElement”)) except to specify class not ID

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I am trying to use Python to web scrape a website that loads it’s HTML dynamically by using embedded javascript files that render the data as a Response into the HTML. Therefore, if I use BeautifulSoup alone, I will not be able to retrieve that data that I need as my program will scrape it before the Javascript loads the data. Due to this, I am integrating the selenium library into my code, to make my program wait until a certain element is found before it scrapes the website.

unknown error: session deleted because of page crash from unknown error: cannot determine loading status from tab crashed with ChromeDriver Selenium

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I’m using InstaPy which use Python and Selenium. I start the script per Cron and from time to time it crashes. So it’r really irregular, sometimes it runs well through. I’v posted on GitHub Repo as well already but didn’t get an answer there, so i’m asking here now if someone has an idea why.

WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary error with Selenium in Python for older versions of Google Chrome

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For compatibility reasons I prefer to use Chrome version 55.0.2883.75 with Chromedriver v. 2.26. I downloaded the older version of chrome from https://www.slimjet.com/chrome/google-chrome-old-version.php and Chromedriver 2.26 from https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.26/.

How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium

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I’m new comer of Selenium, and I can use selenium with Chromedriver to do basic auto-test now, the code works fine, but the problem is Chrome browser always update automatically at the backend, and code always fail to run after Chrome update. I know I need to download new chromedriver to solve this issue, but I wonder if there’s any way to solve this issue without disabling chromebrowser update? tks.