[FIXED] CV = driver.find_element(By.XPATH('//*[@id="movie_player"]/div[5]/button')) TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Issue

I'm making a youtube tool but when I run the code, it gives me this error.

CV = driver.find_element(By.XPATH('//*[@id="movie_player"]/div[5]/button')) TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Here is the code.

        driver = webdriver.Chrome()
        driver.set_window_size(700,800)
        U = self.lineEdit_3.text()
        U = str(U)
        text = "L "
        text = str(text)
        C = 0
        V = self.spinBox_2.text()
        V = int(V)
        while (C < V):
            driver.get(U)
            time.sleep(5)
            CV = driver.find_element(By.XPATH('//*[@id="movie_player"]/div[5]/button'))
            CV.click()
            C = C + 1

Solution

CV = driver.find_element(By.XPATH('//*[@id="movie_player"]/div[5]/button'))

This line causes the problem. The function WebDriver.find_element has the following definition:

def find_element(self, by=By.ID, value=None) -> WebElement:

And the definition of By:

class By(object):
    """
    Set of supported locator strategies.
    """

    ID = "id"
    XPATH = "xpath"
    LINK_TEXT = "link text"
    PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT = "partial link text"
    NAME = "name"
    TAG_NAME = "tag name"
    CLASS_NAME = "class name"
    CSS_SELECTOR = "css selector"

So you should call

CV = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="movie_player"]/div[5]/button')

By.* is of type str and thus is not callable.

When using WebDriver.find_element, you need to supply the content as a second argument.

Answered By - jett8998