How to Fix Common Python Selenium Web Scraping Errors – Step‑by‑Step Guide

1. Introduction

Hello, I am PiPi. Recently a member asked about a Python web‑scraping problem in the Python Star‑shine group. The question involved Selenium and resulted in error screenshots shown below.

The following image shows the error message.

2. Implementation Process

One contributor (dcpeng) suggested a solution; the first method is illustrated below.

The second method is to roll back the Selenium version:

Note that the Selenium version must match the driver version.

Rolling back is simple: uninstall the current version and reinstall the desired one.

Another contributor (error) provided a code snippet that satisfies the requirement:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
print(browser.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="userName"]'))

The above code should work.

3. Summary

This article identified a Python Selenium web‑scraping issue, presented the error details, offered two practical solutions—including version rollback and a ready‑to‑use code example—and helped the community resolve the problem.