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Selenium webscraper not scraping desired tags

here are the two tags I am trying to scrape: https://i.stack.imgur.com/a1sVN.png. In case you are wondering, this is the link to that page (the tags I am trying to scrape are not behind the paywall): https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-health-official-raises-covid-alarm-ahead-of-lunar-new-year-holiday-11672664635
Below is the code in python I am using, does anyone know why the tags are not properly being stored in paragraphs?
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
url = 'https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-health-official-raises-covid-alarm-ahead-of-lunar-new-year-holiday-11672664635'
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)
paragraphs = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, 'css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0')
print(len(paragraphs)) # => prints 0

So you have two problems impacting you.
you should wait for the page to load after you get() the webpage. You can do this with something like import time and time.sleep(10)
The elements that you are trying to scrape, the class tags that you are searching for change on every page load. However, the fact that it is a data-type='paragraph' stays constant, therefore you are able to do:
paragraphs = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//*[#data-type="paragraph"]') # search by XPath to find the elements with that data attribute
print(len(paragraphs))
prints: 2 after the page is loaded.

Just to add-on to #Andrew Ryan's answer, you can use explicit wait for shorter and more dynamical waiting time.
paragraphs = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, '//*[#data-type="paragraph"]'))
)
print(len(paragraphs))

python selenium, can't find elements from page_source while can find from browser

I try find target element by xpath so that I can click on it. But can't find it when run code, although can find it by right-click option manually on chrome browser.
detail: I am using
driver.get('chrome://settings/clearBrowserData')
to get history pop-up from chrome, then wait element by selenium,
and next action I try to click it by:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('* /deep/ #clearBrowsingDataConfirm').click()
or by:
driver.find_element_by_xpath(r'//paper-button[#id="clearBrowsingDataConfirm"]').click()
both does not work
Could you tell solution by xpath if possible because I am more familiar with it. Or any other way to clear history on chrome, thank

Looking into Chrome Settings page source it looks like the button, you're looking for is hidden in the ShadowDOM
So you need to iterate down several levels of ShadowRoot
So the algorithm looks like:
Locate parent WebElement
Locate its shadow-root and cast it to the WebElement
Use WebElement.find_element() function to locate the next WebElement which is the parent for the ShadowRoot
Repeat steps 1-3 until you're in the same context with the element you want to interact with
Example code:
from selenium import webdriver
def expand_root_element(element):
shadow_root = driver.execute_script('return arguments[0].shadowRoot', element)
return shadow_root
driver = webdriver.Chrome("c:\\apps\\webdriver\\chromedriver.exe")
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("chrome://settings/clearBrowserData")
settingsUi = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("settings-ui")
settingsUiShadowRoot = expand_root_element(settingsUi)
settingsMain = settingsUiShadowRoot.find_element_by_tag_name("settings-main")
settingsShadowRoot = expand_root_element(settingsMain)
settingsBasicPage = settingsShadowRoot.find_element_by_tag_name("settings-basic-page")
settingsBasicPageShadowroot = expand_root_element(settingsBasicPage)
settingsPrivacyPage = settingsBasicPageShadowroot.find_element_by_tag_name("settings-privacy-page")
settingsPrivacyShadowRoot = expand_root_element(settingsPrivacyPage)
settingsClearBrowsingDataDialog = settingsPrivacyShadowRoot.find_element_by_tag_name(
"settings-clear-browsing-data-dialog")
settingsClearBrowsingDataDialogShadowRoot = expand_root_element(settingsClearBrowsingDataDialog)
settingsClearBrowsingDataDialogShadowRoot.find_element_by_id("clearBrowsingDataConfirm").click()

I got it to work by doing this:
driver.ExecuteScript("return document.querySelector('body > settings-ui').shadowRoot.querySelector('#main').shadowRoot.querySelector('settings-basic-page').shadowRoot.querySelector('#advancedPage > settings-section:nth-child(1) > settings-privacy-page').shadowRoot.querySelector('settings-clear-browsing-data-dialog').shadowRoot.querySelector('#clearBrowsingDataConfirm').click();");

xpath returns more than one result, how to handle in python

I have started selenium using python. I am able to change the message text using find_element_by_id. I want to do the same with find_element_by_xpath which is not successful as the xpath has two instances. want to try this out to learn about xpath.
I want to do web scraping of a page using python in which I need clarity on using Xpath mainly needed for going to next page.
#This code works:
import time
import requests
import requests
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
url = "http://www.seleniumeasy.com/test/basic-first-form-demo.html"
driver.get(url)
eleUserMessage = driver.find_element_by_id("user-message")
eleUserMessage.clear()
eleUserMessage.send_keys("Testing Python")
time.sleep(2)
driver.close()
#This works fine. I wish to do the same with xpath.
#I inspect the the Input box in chrome, copy the xpath '//*[#id="user-message"]' which seems to refer to the other box as well.
# I wish to use xpath method to write text in this box as follows which does not work.
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
url = "http://www.seleniumeasy.com/test/basic-first-form-demo.html"
driver.get(url)
eleUserMessage = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[#id="user-message"]')
eleUserMessage.clear()
eleUserMessage.send_keys("Test Python")
time.sleep(2)
driver.close()

To elaborate on my comment you would use a list like this:
eleUserMessage_list = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[#id="user-message"]')
my_desired_element = eleUserMessage_list[0] # or maybe [1]
my_desired_element.clear()
my_desired_element.send_keys("Test Python")
time.sleep(2)
The only real difference between find_elements_by_xpath and find_element_by_xpath is the first option returns a list that needs to be indexed. Once it's indexed, it works the same as if you had run the second option!

How to get iframe source from page_source when the id isn't on the iframe

Hello today i wanna ask how to get the link inside the page source but without id, i asked before how to get the link with id ok now i understand, but i've tried the same method with another link and i was not successful about that so here is my code:
from selenium import webdriver
# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver_path = r"C:\Users\666\Desktop\New folder (8)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path)
# go to the google home page
driver.get("https://www.gledalica.com/sa-prevodom/iron-fist-s02e01-video_02cb355f8.html")
# find the element that's name attribute is q (the google search box)
element = driver.find_element_by_id("Playerholder")
frame = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("iframe")
driver.switch_to.frame("iframe")
link = frame.get_attribute("src")
driver.quit()
Like this here: enter image description here

There are multiple way to get it. In this case one of easiest is by using a CSS selector:
frame = find_element_by_css_selector('#Playerholder iframe')
This looks for the element with id = "Playerholder" in the html and then look for a child of it that is an iframe.

How to click the icon using selenium

I am trying to automate my certain activities using selenium. I was launching a webpage and a security windows popup appears for the login credentials.
I have automated that using Autoit. Now after login I need to click on the option and I have tried it based on the find_element_by_text and find_element_by_id.
I was getting an error as Unable to find the element with CSS selector and I have seen some other post in the StackOverflow with the same issue but I could not able to fix it by myself.
Here is how my HTML looks like. Could you please guide me on this and also please share any document for further checking. Thanks.
driver = webdriver.Ie(r"C:\\IEDriverServer\\IEDriverServer.exe")
driver.get('URL of the page')
#driver.implicitly_wait(10) # seconds
autoit.win_wait("Windows Security")
# now make that crap active so we can do stuff to it
autoit.win_activate("Windows Security")
# type in the username
autoit.send('username')
# tab to the password field
autoit.send("{TAB}")
# type in the password
autoit.send('password')
# kill!
autoit.send("{ENTER}")
driver.maximize_window()
driver.implicitly_wait(120) # seconds
#submit_button_incidents = driver.find_element_by_link_text("3-Normal Incidents")
submit_button_incidents= driver.find_element_by_id("nodeImgs13pm")
submit_button_incidents.click()
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
++ updating the info
I have tried to copy the whole HTML but the page was restricted so I cant able to view the full HTML page other than the basic templates. Adding some more screenshots of the developer tools.
Here how my webpage looks like.

try with this code :
submit_button_incidents = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[contains(text(),'My Group'])")))
submit_button_incidents.click()
and do not use implicit wait too many times in code.
Implicit wait is set for life time of web driver instance.
Reference :
Selenium official document for wiats
Xpath tutorial
cssSelector tutorial
UPDATE :
As OP has shared the HTML code. As per the requirement you can go ahead with this code.
As there are two elements with text as My Groups's queue.
For first one you can write XPATH as :
//a[#class='scbdtext']/span[contains(text(),'My Group')]
Code:
submit_button_incidents = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[#class='scbdtext']/span[contains(text(),'My Group')]")))
submit_button_incidents.click()
For second one you can write XPATH as :
//a[#class='scbdtextfoc']/span[contains(text(),'My Group')]
Code :
submit_button_incidents = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[#class='scbdtextfoc']/span[contains(text(),'My Group')]")))
submit_button_incidents.click()
Hope this will help.

Use ActionChains with double click for this to work in Python.
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
# Get the element however you want
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[#class='scbdtextfoc']/span[contains(text(),'My Group')]")
ActionChains(driver).double_click(settings_icon).perform()