How to locate the pagination select button using Python Selenium

January 18, 2023

Code trials:

from selenium import webdriver 
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select 
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

url = r"https://www.nba.com/stats/players/advanced"
driver.get(url) 

select = Select(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, r"/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/section[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]/div/label/div/select"))

select.select_by_index(0)

No matter everything I try I cannot find this full Xpath. I just want the code to recognise the little button that goes from page 1 to all to view all player stat on single page.

I’ve looked into similar questions but unable to get it solved.

Snapshot:

snapshot

>Solution :

When it seems that the path is not working, the better way to start solving the problem is to gradually remove tags from left to right while in the inspector tool. By removing /html/body/div[2] from your xpath I was able to find the element in the HTML

xpath = "//div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/section[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]/div/label/div/select"
select = Select(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, xpath))

which if I understood correctly is this one