python selenium webscraping "NoSuchElementException" not recognized

python exception selenium selenium-webdriver

You need to import the exception first

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

and then you can reference it

except NoSuchElementException:    # handle the element not existing

If you would like to give details of the exception in your output then you can use:

except NoSuchElementException as exc:    print(exc) # and/or other actions to recover

python exception selenium selenium-webdriver

You sould use from selenium.common.exceptions import * and then write except NoSuchElementException

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