Python Page Refresh if Xpath Not Found

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Page Refresh if Xpath Not Found - Clockism - Apr 15, 2018

So I recently made a bot for supreme just for fun and to use myself, it is completed the only thing I need to fix is the refresh.

Right now I have an if statement that refreshes the page if item not found. But it only refreshes once. I need help getting it to refresh until it finds the item.

This is the code I have right now for the refresh.

items = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//article[.//a[contains(.,'MLK')]][.//a[.='Rainbow']]//a")
if items:
items[0].click()
else:
driver.get("http://www.supremenewyork.com/shop/all/sweatshirts")

If anyone knows the syntax for it that would be great, pretty sure I need a while loop but not sure how to set it up.

RE: Page Refresh if Xpath Not Found - Vanagander - Apr 15, 2018

Like this?

Code 
while true:

    time.sleep(3)

    if items:

        items[0].click()

        break

    else:

        driver.get("http://www.supremenewyork.com/shop/all/sweatshirts")

or?

Code 
while items[0] != true:

    driver.get("http://www.supremenewyork.com/shop/all/sweatshirts")

    time.sleep(3)

    if items:

        items[0].click()

        break

RE: Page Refresh if Xpath Not Found - michalmonday - Apr 16, 2018

http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html

you could implement these:

Code 
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

timeout_value = 1 # one second

try:

   elements = WebDriverWait(driver, timeout_value).until(lambda driver: driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//article[.//a[contains(.,'MLK')]][.//a[.='Rainbow']]//a"))

except TimeoutException:

   print "Elements were not found in " + str(timeout_value) + " seconds..."

RE: Page Refresh if Xpath Not Found - Clockism - Apr 16, 2018

Thanks for all the answers. Helped me out a lot.