Python Selenium TimeoutException error even with wait until clickable and except TimeoutException:-CodePudding

My selenium webdriver been constantly crashing due to

TimeoutException: Message: timeout: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 298.972

The cookies pop up opens up but the script doesn't click on it, in like 20 driver.get(url), 19 times it will accept cookies but the 20th will fail to accept cookies, although the window has opened up, I tried to use the code below but still fails.

retries = 1
while retries <= 5:
    try:
        element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@]'))) #wait until cookies clickable
        element.click()
        break
    except TimeoutException:
        driver.refresh()            
        element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@]'))) #wait until cookies clickable
        element.click()
        retries  = 1

CodePudding user response：

Try to use driver.execute_script() instead of element.click()

htmlElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@]')
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", htmlElement)

CodePudding user response：

Generally,

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@]'))) #wait until cookies clickable
element.click()

should work. From the code you shared I can't see why it works in 95% cases but fails in 5% case.
What I do see:
You are trying to find exactly the same condition in except block that caused the TimeoutException.
So, if somehow Selenium could not find element matching this locator //*[@] to be clickable and thrown an TimeoutException waiting for the same condition in except will give you the same result.... Also, I see no sense to put this in a loop of 5 attempts.
In case element was found, clicked and closed - no sense to try again.
And in case you could not do that in the first attempt - this will throw you TimeoutException exception on the first attempt, you will never continue to the second attempt here...

CodePudding user response：

I ran the below script more than 20 times and still it was able to click on the desired button every single time.

All I had to do was basically to change the locator to CSS from XPath:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path)
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30)

driver.get("https://www.novasol.com/")

try:
    wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[onclick='CookieInformation.submitAllCategories();']"))).click()
    print('Clicked it')
except:
    print('Either element was not found, or Bot could not click on it.')
    pass

Imports:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Updated:

try:
    wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[onclick='CookieInformation.submitAllCategories();']"))).click()
    print('Clicked it')
except:
    print('Either element was not found, or Bot could not click on it.')
    driver.refresh()
    time.sleep(5)
    try:
        wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[onclick='CookieInformation.submitAllCategories();']"))).click()
    except:
        pass
    pass