Accessing Selenium Web Elements With Python

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere, because it's a very basic question - I can not, however, for the life of me, find the answer on the web. I feel like a complete idiot, bu

Solution 1:

I'm familiar with python's api of selenium but you probably can receive link using get_attribute(attributename) method. So it should be something like:

linkstr = ""
for link in Listlinker: 
  linkstr = link.get_attribute("href")

  if linkstr in Domenesider:
    pass
  elif str(HovedDomene) in linkstr:
    Domenesider.append(side)

Solution 2:

I've been checking up on your tip to not use time.sleep(10) as a page load wait. From reading different posts itseems to me that waiting for page loading is redundant with selenium 2. Se for example link The reason being that selenium 2 has a implicit wait for load function. Just thought I'd mention it to you, since you took the time to answer my question.

Sometimes selenium behaves in unclear way. And sometimes selenium throws errors which don't interested for us.

By byCondition;
T result; // T is IWebElement
const int SELENIUMATTEMPTS = 5;
int timeout = 60 * 1000;
StopWatch watch = new StopWatch();

public T MatchElement<T>() where T : IWebElement
{
    try
    {
        try {
            this.result = this.find(WebDriver.Instance, this.byCondition);
        }
        catch (NoSuchElementException) { }

        while (this.watch.ElapsedMilliseconds < this.timeout && !this.ReturnCondMatched)
        {

            Thread.Sleep(100);
            try {
                this.result = this.find(WebDriver.Instance, this.byCondition);
            }
            catch (NoSuchElementException) { }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        if (this.IsKnownError(ex))
        {
            if (this.seleniumAttempts < SELENIUMATTEMPTS)
            {
                this.seleniumAttempts++;
                return MatchElement();
            }
        }
        else { log.Error(ex); }
    }
    return this.result;
    }

    public bool IsKnownError(Exception ex)
    {
    //if selenium find nothing it throw an exception. This is bad practice to my mind.
    bool res = (ex.GetType() == typeof(NoSuchElementException));

    //OpenQA.Selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: Element not found in the cache
    //issue appears when selenium interact with other plugins.
    //this is probably something connected with syncronization
    res = res || (ex.GetType() == (typeof(InvalidSelectorException) && ex.Message
        .Contains("Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" +
                "[nsIDOMXPathEvaluator.createNSResolver]"));

    //OpenQA.Selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: Element not found in the cache
    res = res || (ex.GetType() == typeof(StaleElementReferenceException) && 
        ex.Message.Contains("Element not found in the cache"));

    return res;
}

Sorry for C# but I'm beginner in Python. Code is simplified of course.