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Okay, so I am working on my laptop rn and I copy and pasted my code from my PC and suddenly it's not working. I have installed the same Selenium but now it is acting up, I am receiving DeprecationWarnings, driver.find_element_by_xpath isn't working etc.

def click():
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options_)
    driver.get("http://www.discord.com")
    driver.find_element_by_xpath()

This is an example of what I have written which is no longer working, the driver.find_element_by_xpath() has a line through it! And when I rewrite this in another py file (in pycharm) it does not like me using driver, it comes up underlined in red.

Can somebody explain what on earth is going on?

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This error message...

 DeprecationWarning: find_element_by_* commands are deprecated

...implies that the find_element_by_* commands are now associated with a DeprecationWarning in the latest Selenium Python libraries.

This change is inline with the Selenium 4 Release Candidate 1 changelog which mentions:

Specify that the "find_element_by_* ..." warning is a deprecation warning (#9700)

compatible code

Instead of find_element_by_* you have to use find_element(). An example:

  • Using xpath:

    driver.find_element_by_xpath("element_xpath")

    Needs be replaced with:

    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "element_xpath")

You need to add the following import:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

Additionally, you have to use options instead of chrome_options as chrome_options is deprecated now.

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:

Solution

Effectively, your code block will be:

def click():
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe", options=options_)
    driver.get("http://www.discord.com")
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "element_xpath")
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Now you need to use this:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By  

def click():
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe", 
    chrome_options=options_)
    driver.get("http://www.discord.com")
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, 'your xpath')

This works for By.CLASS_NAME, By.CSS_SELECTOR and etc

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