headless mode python selenium, Timeoutexeption error

Question

so I wanted to use headless mode in my python selenium project, and I get this error:

Exception has occurred: TimeoutException

The last traceback was on line 26, and it was also the first line after succesfully opening a website. Here is the line in question:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class=' css-1hy2vtq']"))).click()

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What I've tried to solve it:

I've tried adding arguments to the chrome options, I've tried switching up the first line and so I found out that waiting for an element_to_be_clickable does not work but find_element(By , does (well in this case at least).

Answer 1

The classnames ie css-1hy2vtq , etc are dynamically generated and is bound to change sooner/later. They may change next time you access the application afresh or even while next application startup. So cann't be used in locators.

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Solution

You need to consider any of the other attributes which is static in nature. Example:

//button[text()='Click Me']