Is there a web-page blocks the find_element function to work? WTO official repository

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I am trying to get the Panel Report of WTO automatically using selenium package in python.

https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/FE_Search/FE_S_S006.aspx?Query=(@Symbol=%20wt/ds2/*)&Language=ENGLISH&Context=FomerScriptedSearch&languageUIChanged=true#

while I was working with above page, I've got into error - that no element is not gettable.

In other words, specially I'd like to inspect "Panel Report Tab" and click it, like using the following code:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ctl00_ContentLeft_Tabs_tab001_wpcTypesTreeView_trvTypes"]/ul/li[8]/div/span[2]')

but keep failing with an error message :

NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id="ctl00_TopLevelNavigationWUC_lnkRecentDocuments"]"} (Session info: chrome=63.0.3239.132) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.34.522932 (4140ab217e1ca1bec0c4b4d1b148f3361eb3a03e),platform=Mac OS X 10.13.2 x86_64)

So I had tried this with another xpath, but keep returning same error.

How could I get the element for clicking to get into the panel-report page?

EDIT: I am using Python but one user referred this question to JAVA cases and marked it as a duplication.

Possible duplicate of [Selenium "selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException" when using Chrome](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47993443/selenium-selenium-common-exceptions-nosuchelementexception-when-using-chrome) — undetected Selenium, Jan 11 '18 at 08:47
@DebanjanB I had checked the referred link, but there's no webdriverwait method in my python and its package selenium. Any hint to proceed? — snapper, Jan 11 '18 at 09:09
@DebanjanB I don' have a time to learn JAVA and my post explicitly shows this is about python. But you just turns it into Duplication. why? — snapper, Jan 11 '18 at 09:26
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait use this class — Ankur Singh, Jan 11 '18 at 09:46
refer this link http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html — Ankur Singh, Jan 11 '18 at 09:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '18 at 09:50

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You can use below code:-

 element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='ctl00_ContentLeft_Tabs_tab001_wpcTypesTreeView_trvTypes']/ul/li[8]/div/span[2]"))
    )

answered Jan 11 '18 at 09:50

Ankur Singh

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while I didn't use webdriver wait, if I had already waited more than an hour, still do I need to use wait? – snapper Jan 11 '18 at 09:59
yeah we need to wait for webelement to apper in DOM after that only we are able to interact with it – Ankur Singh Jan 11 '18 at 10:03

Is there a web-page blocks the find_element function to work? WTO official repository

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