Python Selenium inner for loop doesn't iterate

Question

Below is my code that I use for scraping the BSE web-site. All works fine, except for a minor glitch. The inner (second) for-loop doesn't iterate and the execution ends. Any help would be useful.

browser=webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('http://www.bseindia.com/markets/keystatics/Keystat_index.aspx')
for i in range(1,48):
    browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ddltype']/option["+str(i)+"]").click()
    browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_btnSubmit"]').click()
    data = []
    for j in range(2,21):
        browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvReport_ctl"+str(j).zfill(2)+"_Linkbtn']").click()
        for tr in browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvYearwise"]'):
            ths = tr.find_elements_by_tag_name('th')
            tds = tr.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')
            if ths: 
                data.append([th.text for th in ths])
            if tds: 
                data.append([td.text for td in tds])
            f.write(str(data) + "\n")

Maybe browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvYearwise"]') returns an empty list? — suit
– suit, Commented Dec 15, 2017 at 10:39
is ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvReport the table that you wanna scrape? — skrubber
– skrubber, Commented Dec 15, 2017 at 10:47

imox · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-15 15:19:58Z

Many times click leads to 500 so i ran recursive try catch block.

Here is the whole code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
import time

base_url="http://www.bseindia.com/markets/keystatics/Keystat_index.aspx"
#browser = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/qriyoinfolabs/ahlat/chromedriver')
browser=webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get(base_url)
data = []


def fetch_this_erroful_page_for_me(id):
    try:
        print "Trying "+str(id)+"..."
        browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ddltype']/option["+str(id)+"]").click()
        browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_btnSubmit"]').click()
    except:
        print "Retrying "+str(id)+"..."
        time.sleep(2)
        browser.get(base_url)
        fetch_this_erroful_page_for_me(id)

def click_on_this_link_for_me(year_id,option_id):
    try:
        print "Trying year"+str(year_id)+"..."
        zfilled_id=str(year_id).zfill(2)
        browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvReport_ctl"+zfilled_id+"_Linkbtn']").click()
        return 1
    except NoSuchElementException:
        return 0
    else:
        time.sleep(2)
        fetch_this_erroful_page_for_me(option_id)
        click_on_this_link_for_me(year_id,option_id)

for i in range(1,48):
    fetch_this_erroful_page_for_me(i)

    for j in range(2,21):

        valid=click_on_this_link_for_me(j,i)
        if(valid==0):
            print "valid0"
            break
        for tr in browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvYearwise"]'):
            ths = tr.find_elements_by_tag_name('th')
            tds = tr.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')
            if ths:
                data.append([th.text for th in ths])
            if tds: 
                data.append([td.text for td in tds])


with open('str.txt','w') as file:
    file.write(str(data))

suit · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-15 12:42:47Z

'//[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvYearwise"]' is not a tr tag, this is a table. So browser.find_elements_by_xpath(..) returns just one element. Try '//[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvYearwise"]//tr'

Btw, this is realy bad practice to do like for i in range(1,48). Try to make some iterable objects with elements or element generator.

For example (I am no shure that works well, because didn't test it properly - there is HTTP ERROR 500 issue):

def get_next_row(driver, xpath):
    i = 0
    while True:
        try:
            yield driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath)[i]
        except IndexError:
            break
        i += 1

browser=webdriver.Chrome()
browser.implicitly_wait(0.5)
browser.get('http://www.bseindia.com/markets/keystatics/Keystat_index.aspx')

for list_item in get_next_row(browser, "//*[@id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ddltype']/option"):
    list_item.click()
    browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_btnSubmit"]').click()
    data = []
    for next_button in get_next_row(browser, '//a[contains(@id, "ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvReport_ct")]'):
        next_button.click()
        for tr in get_next_row(browser, '//*[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gvYearwise"]//tr'):
            ths = tr.find_elements_by_tag_name('th')
            tds = tr.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')
            if ths:
                data.append([th.text for th in ths])
            if tds:
                data.append([td.text for td in tds])
            f.write(str(data) + "\n")

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