This error message...
UnexpectedTagNameException: Message: Select only works on <select> elements, not on <div>
...implies that your program invoked Select() on a <div> element, where as Select() works only with html-select tags.
Solution
The Country dropdown within the website https://vizhub.healthdata.org/tobacco/ can be accessed through:
Snapshot:
So to select China from the Country dropdown a possible solution should have been:
driver.get("https://vizhub.healthdata.org/tobacco/")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//img[@id='data']"))).click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='select2-choice']/span"))).click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='select2-results']//div[@class='select2-result-label' and text()='China']"))).click()
tl; dr
However, the solution didn't work at my end and when I went ahead and inspected the DOM Tree of the webpage it was observed that some of the <script> tag refers to JavaScripts having keyword dist. As an example:
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@15.6.2/dist/react-dom.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/ihme-ui@0.34.0/dist/ihme-ui.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/clipboard@1.7.1/dist/clipboard.min.js"></script><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/ihme-ui@0.34.0/dist/ihme-ui.css">
Which is a clear indication that the website is protected by Bot Management service provider Distil Networks and the navigation by Selenium driven ChromeDriver initiated google-chrome Browsing Context gets detected and subsequently gets blocked.
Distil
As per the article There Really Is Something About Distil.it...:
Distil protects sites against automatic content scraping bots by observing site behavior and identifying patterns peculiar to scrapers. When Distil identifies a malicious bot on one site, it creates a blacklisted behavioral profile that is deployed to all its customers. Something like a bot firewall, Distil detects patterns and reacts.
Further,
"One pattern with Selenium was automating the theft of Web content", Distil CEO Rami Essaid said in an interview last week. "Even though they can create new bots, we figured out a way to identify Selenium the a tool they're using, so we're blocking Selenium no matter how many times they iterate on that bot. We're doing that now with Python and a lot of different technologies. Once we see a pattern emerge from one type of bot, then we work to reverse engineer the technology they use and identify it as malicious".
Reference
You can find a couple of detailed discussion in: