Difficulty finding elements in Selenium with Python

Question

I am trying to familiarize myself with Selenium and am running into an issue finding an element, I am noticing this a lot actually.

I want to go to yahoo.com, click on Sports, and assert the page title is correct. The following throws an "Unable to locate element" error message. I have tried ID, xPath etc. I have also tried other page elements, Mail, News etc...all throw the same error. Am I missing something here?

import unittest
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

# go to Yahoo home page, click on Sports and assert title is correct

class searchMaps(unittest.TestCase):
    # def setup as class method
    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(inst):
        inst.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
        inst.driver.maximize_window()
        inst.driver.get("http://www.yahoo.com")
        inst.driver.implicitly_wait(20)

    def test_click_sports_page(self):
        self.search_field = self.driver.find_element_by_id('yui_3_18_0_3_1527260025921_1028')
        self.search_field.click()
        actual_title = driver.getTitle()
        expected_title = 'Yahoo Sports | Sports News'
        assertEquals(actual_title, expected_title)


    @classmethod
    def tearDownClass(inst):
        inst.driver.quit()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

isn't this id yui_3_18_0_3_1527260025921_1028 dynamic and is supposed to change on next run ? — ishandutta2007
– ishandutta2007, Commented May 27, 2018 at 12:11

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-25 15:21:23Z

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The @id of target link is dynamic, so it will be different each time you open the page.

Try to use link text to locate element:

self.search_field = self.driver.find_element_by_link_text('Sports')

answered May 25, 2018 at 15:21

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JD2775 Over a year ago

thanks for the help. That did get me past that error, but now I am seeing a NameError: name 'driver' is not defined in relation to the following: actual_title = driver.getTitle()

Andersson Over a year ago

Try actual_title = self.driver.title

JD2775 Over a year ago

ah, thank you. I am seeing other errors now but you solved my initial problem. Ill work through the others. Thanks for your help

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