Python Selenium handling Timeout Exceptions with a long list of URLs

Python Selenium is a powerful tool for automating web interactions, but web pages can sometimes be slow to load, or various unexpected issues can occur. To deal with these situations, it's essential to handle timeout exceptions gracefully. In this tutorial, we'll explore how to handle timeout exceptions in Python Selenium and provide a practical example using a long list of URLs.
Before you get started, make sure you have the following installed:
Selenium: You can install it using pip:
Webdriver: You'll need a WebDriver for your preferred web browser (e.g., Chrome, Firefox). Download the appropriate WebDriver and ensure it's in your system's PATH. You can find the webdrivers here:
Here are some common timeout-related exceptions in Selenium:
To handle these exceptions, you can use try...except blocks to gracefully manage them.
In this example, we'll create a script to navigate to a list of URLs and capture the page titles, handling any timeout exceptions along the way. We'll use Chrome as the browser and ChromeDriver as the WebDriver.
In this example, we loop through a list of URLs, and for each URL, we attempt to:
If a timeout exception or element not found exception occurs, the script gracefully handles it, and the program continues to the next URL.
This example demonstrates how to handle timeout exceptions while automating web interactions with Python Selenium, ensuring your script remains robust even when dealing with various web pages and conditions.
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