I am writing a scraper for https://etherscan.io/ using selenium in python. I am getting StaleElementReferenceException in my code when it clicks on a button and not finding any good source to solve this error.
This is the code
url = "https://etherscan.io/login?"
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get(url)
username = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_txtUserName"]')
username.send_keys('user')
password = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_txtPassword"]')
password.send_keys('pass')
login = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ContentPlaceHolder1_btnLogin"]')
login.click()
more = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="moreMegaMenu"]')
more.click()
word_cloud = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="LI41"]/a').click()
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'html.parser')
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
dropdown = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.dropdown-toggle')
for ele in dropdown:
ele.click()
time.sleep(1)
account = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'.d-block')))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", account)
time.sleep(1)
driver.execute_script("window.history.go(-1)")
Error Message:
StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
(Session info: chrome=100.0.4896.75)
StaleElementReferenceException Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-108-2804d338c51f> in <module>
1 dropdown = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.dropdown-toggle')
2 for ele in dropdown:
----> 3 ele.click() # this is the line where it is showing error
4 time.sleep(1)
5 account = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'.d-block')))
@cruisepandey solution is ok, but I think mine is a bit simpler. Also, in my case, his solution redirects to a wrong page (to homepage).