Getting selenium python to run previous line of code after catching an exception

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I am trying to scrape this Website. It has two dropdown lists that I need to navigate as shown in the image below:

I solved an issue where I get a StaleElementReferenceException on each of the dropdowns since I need to execute a click before the elements come into view. However, after catching the exception, I need the webdriver to go back to the previous line of code to click it into view again. Is there another argument I call, rather than the pass argument, that could make that happen?

The pass argument does not work, and since I am a little new to web scraping, am having a challenge seeing what else to do.

Here’s my code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait 
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException, ElementNotInteractableException, StaleElementReferenceException
from time import sleep

options1 = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options1.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()), options=options1)

link = "https://www.compareandrecycle.co.uk/mobile-phones/apple-iphone-11"

driver.get(link)
sleep(5)
cookie_button = driver.find_element("xpath", "//span[@class='cookie_acceptButton__gs5MX']").click()
for x in wait.until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH,"//div[@class='storage-selectors']/span"))):
            size = x.text
            print(size)
            try:
                variants = x.click()
            except ElementNotInteractableException:
                pass
            
            network_options = driver.find_element("xpath", "//div[@class='network-options']//span[@class='selectboxit selectboxit-enabled selectboxit-btn']")
            network_options.click()
            sleep(3)
            for elem in driver.find_elements("xpath", "//div[@class='network-options']//div[@class='selectboxit-options selectboxit-list']/li"):
                try:
                    elem.click()
                except StaleElementReferenceException:
                    pass
                network = driver.find_element("xpath", "//div[@class='network-options']//span[@class='selectboxit selectboxit-enabled selectboxit-btn']/span[@class='selectboxit-text']").text
                print(network)
                
                sleep(3)
                condition_options = driver.find_element("xpath","//div[@class='condition-options']//span[@class='selectboxit selectboxit-enabled selectboxit-btn']")
                condition_options.click()
                sleep(3)
                for cons in driver.find_elements("xpath", "//div[@class='condition-options']//div[@class='selectboxit-options selectboxit-list']/li"):
                    try:
                        cons.click()
                    except StaleElementReferenceException: 
                        pass
                    condition = driver.find_element("xpath", "//div[@class='condition-options']//span[@class='selectboxit selectboxit-enabled selectboxit-btn']/span[@class='selectboxit-text']").text
                    print(condition)

Asked By: Reggie18

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Answer 1

driver.get('https://www.compareandrecycle.co.uk/mobile-phones/apple-iphone-11')

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[contains(@class,'cookie_accept')]"))).click()
j=0
while True:
    try:
        wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.network-options > div > div > span"))).click()
        networks=wait.until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"div.selectboxit-options.selectboxit-list>li")))
        networks[j].click()
        i=0
        while True:
            try:
                wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.condition-options > div > div > span"))).click()
                conditions=wait.until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"div.selectboxit-options.selectboxit-list>li")))
                conditions[i].click()
                i+=1
            except:
                break
        j+=1
    except:
        break

You could either open it up and get the length and then loop or just loop until your erroring out and click on all the options.

Just add this to the top of the loop for all the sizes as well convert to Webdriver waits.

sizes = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,"//span[contains(@class,'filter-box')]") 
for i in range(len(sizes)): 
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH,f"(//span[contains(@class,'filter-box')] )[{i}]").click()

Answered By: Arundeep Chohan

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