Searching Google with Selenium and Python

Question

I am not able to do a simple google search through Selenium, although I believe I am doing it correctly. I attempted to follow the Selenium documentation, but I believe the issue might be caused by an improper install of python or selenium. I have little python knowledge. Here is my code: ``` 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 browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get('http://www.google.com') try: element = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "gbqfq"))) finally: browser.quit() search = browser.find_element_by_name('q') search.send_keys("google search through python") ``` This is what terminal outputs. ``` Mark-Kowalskys-iMac:~ markkowalsky$ cd '/Users/markkowalsky/Desktop/' && '/usr/bin/pythonw' '/Users/markkowalsky/Desktop/searchGoogle.py' && echo Exit status: $? && exit 1 Traceback (most r…

Accepted Answer

Your `finally` block will be executed whether there has been an exception or not. So `browser.quit()` is always executed.

If you want to just search this script will do it for you.

```
import time
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
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.google.com')

search = browser.find_element_by_name('q')
search.send_keys("google search through python")
search.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) # hit return after you enter search text
time.sleep(5) # sleep for 5 seconds so you can see the results
browser.quit()
```

The selenium docs on `waits.

Searching Google with Selenium and Python

Solution

Problem