Scroll (Scroll Screen) with Selenium in Python: Error

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I have a list of items on the screen, in which I need to click one by one to parse data. It turns out that at some point, Selenium can’t click anymore, because when it tries, the following error happens:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point

I’m trying to get the screen to scroll gradually with each iteration, but I’m not succeeding. When I run the line below

browser.execute_script('window.scroll(0, 200)')

The screen scrolls, to then present the error

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: call function result missing 'value'

Then any new scrolling attempt is ignored. Any hint of how to proceed to outline the situation?

python python-3.x rolling selenium-webdriver

  • I’m realizing that it rolls the screen to a certain position. How would I roll the screen X times??? Surely this is the problem.

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Discovered another one (scrollBy):

try:
    browser.execute_script('window.scrollBy(0, 15)')
except:
    None

I did it this way to get around the error, which I still don’t understand why it occurs. But it was enough to get around the problem.

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