Questions tagged [staleelementreferenceexception]

StaleElementReferenceException, also commonly referred to as StaleElementReferenceException in the world of automation testing with Selenium, is an exception that belongs to the org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException class. This exception occurs when a reference to an element becomes "stale", indicating that the element is no longer part of the Document Object Model (DOM) of the webpage.

Is there a different option to use instead of time.sleep() when web scraping with Selenium in Python?

I am currently working on a project that involves scraping prices for specific food items based on different locations across the country. One of the features allows users to enter the name of a city in an input text box and then view a list of available i ...

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Error encountered when iterating through a list: Stale Element Reference Exception

I'm currently working on creating a web scraper for this specific website. The main idea behind the code is to iterate through all institutions by selecting each institution's name (starting with 3B-Wonen), closing the pop-up window, clicking the download ...

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dealing with the StaleElementReferenceException while using selenium

Trying to create a web crawler using Selenium, I encountered a StaleElementReferenceException in my program. Initially, I suspected that the exception was caused by crawling pages recursively and navigating to the next page without first returning to the p ...

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The problem of referencing a stale element and refreshing the DOM with explicit/implicit waits

After experiencing an issue that I was able to resolve using explicit wait, I found myself questioning the inner workings of Selenium WebDriver. It's puzzling how applying an implicitly wait for 300 seconds continued to result in a stale element refer ...

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