How to continue if find_element does not find anything instead of producing an error that terminates the program?

Question

I have the following code:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/...").text

However, the element I am looking for is optional. It will sometimes be present and sometimes not. I want to keep track whether it is present. If it is not present, the code should not be terminated because driver.find_element throws a the NoSuchElementException error. I want to code to continue.

Answer 1

You can use try..except block to ignore if element not present

try:
   driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/...").text
except:
   pass

Answer 2

Use a 'try: except NoSuchElementException:' statement

Answer 3

try

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

try:
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/...").text
except NoSuchElementException:
    #print('no element')
    pass

Answer 4

Don't catch the raw exception.

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Instead handle the desired NoSuchElementException to prevent leakage of the flaky exceptions as follows:

try:
   driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/...").text
except NoSuchElementException:
   pass