[FIXED] Append href links into a list using Selenium AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_attribute'

Issue

I am trying to append car links from a website into a list. I want to traverse that list to get information from each of the car's web pages.

So far I have tried both .append method as well as += operator method but I get the same errors for both which is :

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_attribute'

This only shows up when I use the following line of code:

carLinks += [carLink.get_attribute("href")]

or the append method. However, if I just print the carLink.get_attribute("href") then it prints all the links.

This is the partial code I used:

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get("https://www.tred.com/buy?body_style=&distance=50&exterior_color_id=&make=&miles_max=100000&miles_min=0&model=&page_size=24&price_max=100000&price_min=0&query=&requestingPage=buy&sort=desc&sort_field=updated&status=active&year_end=2022&year_start=1998&zip=")


carLinks = []

carLinks = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div.grid-box-container a")
for carLink in carLinks:
    carLinkUrl = carLink.get_attribute("href")
    carLinks.append(carLinkUrl)
    # print(carLinkUrl)

print(carLinks)

driver.quit()

I haven't tried it in BeautifulSoup yet as I am not used to mixing both Selenium and BeautifulSoup at once.

Solution

This is cause you have a list of and name is carLinks. Also in your loop :

for carLink in carLinks:
    carLinkUrl = carLink.get_attribute("href")
    carLinks.append(carLinkUrl)

You have same name of a web element.

Compiler will think carLinks is an web element because of local scope.

and since carLinks is locally a web element, there is no append method available in Selenium.

Please change either one of names.

carLinks = []

links = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div.grid-box-container a")
for car_link in links:
    carLinks.append(car_link.get_attribute('href'))

print(carLinks)

Answered By - cruisepandey