NoSuchElementException not getting the exception

[acpn]

Hi guys,

I'm building an crawler to get some information's about companies in facebook, and sometimes companies doesn' t have a page in that case I check for specific tag in the DOM. When I did this check:

def try_or_pass(self, selector, timeout=None):
        extracted_info = ''
        try:
            if timeout:
                extracted_info = self.get_text(selector=selector,
                                               timeout=timeout)
            else:
                extracted_info = self.get_text(selector=selector)
        except:
            logging.error('Element ' + selector + ' not found.')

        return extracted_info

My expectations was to falls in the except part, log the error and then return my extracted_info variable empty, however the get_text method falls in NoSuchElementException and my except will never be executed. I try another methods from seleniumbase but always falls in the same problem, could someone help me?

Thanks,
Antonio

[mdmintz]

Hi @acpn , the try/except block should be catching exceptions... which line is the test failing on when you run it? Have you tried using except Exception: instead? Is it possible that the test failed before it reached this line? SeleniumBase produces screenshots so that you can verify that you're on the correct page. See the latest_logs/ folder that's created when you run your test. You can also do --html=report.html to generate an html report, which also has screenshots.

[acpn]

Thank you @mdmintz, when you mentioned about the error reaching out before/after this point i found my mistake. I'm using inheritance and I was overriding an method without realize that. So when finish the first execution the method calls herself again like an recursive method and the tags I was trying to insert some text doesn't exists in the page I was crawling.

The reports also helps a lot, great project man, cheers!!