I got error message while input string into selenium webdriver

Asked Aug 18 '17 at 02:51

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I have no idea why the webdriver doesn't take my string argument.

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
name = "Andre Silva"
headline = "Football Player and CEO"
url = "https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/index/?keywords=" + name + " " + headline + "&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER"

driver.get(url)

Then I got a error message:

  File "/Users/jiajiefan/data_mining/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 268, in get
    self.execute(Command.GET, {'url': url})
  File "/Users/jiajiefan/data_mining/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 256, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/Users/jiajiefan/data_mining/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'url' not a string

edited Aug 18 '17 at 16:52

asked Aug 18 '17 at 02:51

dlfjj

Your code works well on `Python 3.6.1`. Not sure about `python2.7` – undetected Selenium Aug 18 '17 at 02:59
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This may or may not be the issue, but URLs aren't supposed to have spaces in them. Try replacing the spaces between your keywords with `%20`. – John Gordon Aug 18 '17 at 03:02
`link = "https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/index/?keywords="+ name+ ""+ headline +"&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER"` replace it – NarendraR Aug 18 '17 at 04:55
@DebanjanB, I am using python2.7. It keeps saying 'url' not a string – dlfjj Aug 18 '17 at 17:56
@JohnGordon, linkedin.com doesn't take %20 or 09% sometimes – dlfjj Aug 18 '17 at 17:57
This might solve your issue https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5607551/how-to-urlencode-a-querystring-in-python – smit9234 Aug 18 '17 at 20:21
thank guys, I got this work. – dlfjj Aug 18 '17 at 20:40

I got error message while input string into selenium webdriver

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