selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element:

Question

I\'m trying to automatically generate lots of users on the webpage kahoot.it using selenium to make them appear in front of the class, however, I get this error message when

Answer 1

Could be a race condition where the find element is executing before it is present on the page. Take a look at the wait timeout documentation. Here is an example from the docs

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

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading")
try:
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "myDynamicElement"))
    )
finally:
    driver.quit()