AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click' using find_element(By.Xpath) Selenium and Python

Question

There was a change to the find_element_by_xpath() to find_element(By.Xpath) and now the click is not working.

Code trials:

search_btn = self.driver.find_elements(
    By.XPATH, "//*[@id='viewContainer']/app-listing-container/app-search-container/app-search-form-container/form/div[3]/button[2]").click()
time.sleep(4)
search_btn.click()
time.sleep(5)

Error:

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:52534/devtools/browser/5aafde31-7b7e-456f-9639-cdfa2bb70678
[16904:17532:0211/180317.139:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(227)] START: ReportBluetoothAvailability(). If you don't see the END: message, this is crbug.com/1216328.
[16904:17532:0211/180317.140:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(230)] END: ReportBluetoothAvailability()
[16904:17532:0211/180317.140:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(235)] START: GetDefaultBrowser(). If you don't see the END: message, this is crbug.com/1216328.
[16904:12228:0211/180317.149:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(214)] [18:03:17.148] USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1049 Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x1F)
[16904:12228:0211/180317.157:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(214)] [18:03:17.157] USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1049 Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x1F)
[16904:17532:0211/180317.159:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(239)] END: GetDefaultBrowser()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\!!!Angela\Paid screen scraper\data scraping\data scraping\my_ui_scrapy12.py", line 278, in show_page
    By.XPATH, "//*[@id='viewContainer']/app-listing-container/app-search-container/app-search-form-container/form/div[3]/button[2]").click()
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click'
 c:\data scraping\data scraping> [22108:16084:0211/180503.560:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(454)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is disabled, ANGLE is

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-12 21:39:13Z

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find_elements()

find_elements() find elements and returns a list, given a By strategy and locator.

So this line of code:

search_btn = self.driver.find_elements( By.XPATH, "//[@id='viewContainer']/app-listing-container/app-search-container/app-search-form-container/form/div[3]/button[2]")

would return a list and list has no method as click(). Hence the next line:

search_btn.click()

raises the error:

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click'

Solution

Replace find_elements() with find_element() you would be good to go.

answered Feb 12, 2022 at 21:39

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Virginia Walters Over a year ago

Thank you for that but I still get an error

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

@VirginiaWalters I'm certainly sure you don't see AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click' anymore. Can you please confirm?

Virginia Walters Over a year ago

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id='viewContainer']/app-listing-container/app-search-container/app-search-form-container/form/div[3]/button[2]"} (Session info: chrome=98.0.4758.82)

Virginia Walters Over a year ago

Still getting an error by click error is gone

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

@VirginiaWalters NoSuchElementException is a different error all together and can be solved as well. Feel free to raise a new question with your new requirement.

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