Troubleshooting of selenium errors
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SeleniumHQ Browser Automation (php-webdriver/php-webdriver: PHP client for Selenium/WebDriver protocol. Previously facebook/php-webdriver)
How to resolve Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\InvalidSelectorException
Error message
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: The result of the xpath expression "xxx" is: [object Attr]. It should be an element. (Session info: chrome=83.0.4103.61) in /path/to/vendor/php-webdriver/webdriver/lib/Exception/WebDriverException.php:105
Situation
- After the term was keyed in into the text box, the script shuld auto click the specified button which specified by XPath expression.
Possibile soultions
How to resolve [WARNING]: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version xx or [WARNING]: This version of ChromeDriver has not been tested with Chrome version 86
Situation
- Download the same version of ChromeDriver with the version installed on the computer or server
- You may need to stop the ChromeDriver in the process list if you could not overwrite the existing ChromeDriver file
- Overwrite the existing ChromeDriver file
References
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