Exploring Explicit Wait in Selenium Python
Learn how to implement explicit wait in Selenium Python to handle synchronization issues and ensure web elements are loaded before interacting with them.
00:00:00 Learn about explicit wait in Selenium Python to handle synchronization issues and improve script efficiency. Avoid hard coding pauses and use Selenium weights instead.
⏱️ Explicit wait in Selenium Python helps handle synchronization issues and delays in web element loading.
⭐ Hard coding sleep times is not recommended in an actual framework, so Selenium's explicit wait is a better approach.
🔧 Using explicit wait in Selenium Python improves script efficiency and ensures smoother execution.
00:02:24 Learn how to implement explicit wait in Selenium Python to handle synchronization issues and ensure web elements are loaded before interacting with them.
⏰ Explicit wait is used in Selenium Python to ensure synchronization with the application.
❌ Removing hard-coded sleeps can cause synchronization issues in the script execution.
🕒 Web elements may take time to load, and explicit wait helps in checking their existence before interacting with them.
00:04:47 Implementing explicit wait in Selenium Python to wait for a web element to appear before moving forward in the script, avoiding unnecessary waiting time.
📝 Explicit wait in Selenium Python allows us to set a maximum time to wait for a web element to appear.
⏰ By implementing explicit wait, the script will not keep waiting for the full time if the web element becomes available earlier.
🔍 To use explicit wait, we need to import the 'webdriver wait' class and specify the duration to wait in seconds.
00:07:13 This video explains how to use explicit wait in Selenium Python to ensure that a web element is clickable before clicking on it.
🔍 Expected conditions are used to check various attributes or states of a web element.
⏰ Explicit wait in Selenium Python requires importing the 'expected conditions' class.
🖱️ To ensure a web element is clickable, the 'element to be clickable' expected condition is used.
00:09:36 Learn how to implement explicit wait in Selenium Python to handle web elements that take longer to load or select.
⚙️ Explicit wait is used to wait for specific web elements on a page.
🔍 Explicit wait is not applicable to all web elements and should only be used when necessary.
📌 Implementing explicit wait can help fix issues with web element selection and improve script execution.
00:12:01 Learn how to implement explicit wait in Selenium Python and select specific elements using XPath.
🔎 Implementing explicit wait to check if a web element is clickable before finding and storing elements related to it.
✨ Using the webdriverweight class to specify the wait time and dynamically wait until the element is clickable.
📅 Successfully selecting the departure date using explicit wait.
00:14:25 Learn how to implement explicit wait in Selenium Python and practice on real websites to gain confidence in tackling different scenarios.
🤖 To implement explicit wait in Selenium Python, create an object of the driver weight and use the 'until' method with expected conditions.
⏳ There are different expected conditions that can be used, such as presence of element and element clickable, depending on the scenario.
💻 Practicing on real websites like yatra.com will give you more confidence in implementing explicit wait in real projects.
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