I was having trouble with find elements by XPATH for a selenium script in Python.
Couldn’t understand the problem, i want to identify all of the elements that satisfy my xpath criteria.
So I simply compared the find_elements(By.XPATG, ‘//div’) to the same result when looking at Chrome’s Inspect tool.
The tool says 300+ results for this whereas my programme, which I got to return a count of results, only states 60? Any ideas? looks to be an thing from the browser/site side rather than my code.
Thanks
EDIT added my code:
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.common.exceptions import StaleElementReferenceException
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import login
print(time.time())
driver.get("WEBSITE URL")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//body")))
time.sleep(1)
links = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,'//body')
linklist = len(links)
print(linklist)
This provides a result of around 60 however when '//body' is put in the inspect element tool, it returns 300+
Apologies but the targeted webpage is confidential so I can't post. But suggestions are appreciated so I can investigate.
