How to click through multiple elements with same XPATH in selenium using for loop?

Question

I'm trying to web scrape different elements with same class name. The following statements works well.

browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "(//div[@class= 'jumbo-tracker'])[1]").click()
browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "(//div[@class= 'jumbo-tracker'])[2]").click()

... and so on.

Now, if I put this in a loop, it doesn't work. Looks like, it doesn't recognize (//div[@class= 'jumbo-tracker'])[i]

Here's the code:

for i in range(1,length+1):
    browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "(//div[@class= 'jumbo-tracker'])[i]").click()
    sleep(5)
    browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@class='sc-1y3q50z-3 eiMLBn']").click()
    sleep(5)
    sno.append(restaurant)
    restaurant_name= browser.find_element(By.XPATH,"//h1[contains(@class, 'sc-7kepeu-0 sc-kafWEX kTxZkY')]").text
    name.append(restaurant_name)
    browser.back()
    browser.back()
    sleep(5)

Here's the exception:

NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"(//div[@class= 'jumbo-tracker'])[i]"}

Please, help.

Md. Fazlul Hoque · Answer 1 · 2022-04-21T04:50:40.797

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You can click all elements keep in for loop and you have to use elements instead of element.

clicks = browser.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//div[@class= 'jumbo-tracker']")

for click in clicks:
   click = click.click()
   time.sleep(2)

edited Apr 21 '22 at 04:50

answered Apr 20 '22 at 15:13

Md. Fazlul Hoque

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '22 at 15:12

Use string interpolation. String interpolation is a process substituting values of variables into placeholders in a string. This example (based on your code) uses an f-string:

for i in range(1,length+1):
    browser.find_element(By.XPATH, f"(//div[@class= 'jumbo-tracker'])[{i}]").click()

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '22 at 20:25

range()

The range() function creates a sequence of numbers.

So while passing the variable within the xpath using f-strings you need to convert the number as string for variable substitution and you can use the following line of code:

for i in range(1,length+1):
        browser.find_element(By.XPATH, f"(//div[@class= 'jumbo-tracker'])[{str(i)}]").click()

How to click through multiple elements with same XPATH in selenium using for loop?

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range()