Invalid argument error thrown for selenium script

Question

I have a file full of Urls (about some 3000 urls) and the requirement is to get each url invoked in a browser tab and click on each page (just the click is enough on the loaded page), which redirects to a different page. This is all I need to do.

I have written a code for the urls to retrieve one by one and clink on the page (page is designed to click anywhere to land or redirect to a different page). However, while running the code an error is being thrown with "invalid argument". Any thoughts, how can I correct the error ?

Appreciate your support.

 with open(dataFile, 'r') as urlFile:
 urlFile.readline()
 for url in urlFile:
 driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe')
 driver.get(url)
 link = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body")
 link.click()
 urlFile.close()

The above code should pull each url from the file on a new browser tab and click. Repeat the same until all the urls in the file are done.

• Murthi: which line you are getting the error? and is there any blank lines in the text file. also, check the URL format and it should be starting link http:// or https://
• user1911509: @Murthi, you are correct. I have the /r (carriage return) in my code and I have it removed and it is working good. Thank you for pointing this out.
• user1911509: @Murthi, I have another problem with this code. Let's say, I have n lines of Urls in the file - however, the code executes n-1 and leaves the last Urls from the file. Any suggestions, please ?
• Murthi: remove the code urlFile.readline() in the loop(second line in your code). then it will execute all the lines.
• user1911509: Thank you very much. It works brilliantly.

Answer 1

I did something like this Code

from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome('driver_location')
f = open("dataFile.txt", 'r')
for line in f:
 driver.get(line)
 link = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#header > div:nth-child(3) > div > div > div:nth-child(3) > div > a")
 link.click()
 print(driver.current_url)
f.close()

url in dataFile.txt file

http://automationpractice.com/index.php
http://automationpractice.com/index.php
http://automationpractice.com/index.php

output

http://automationpractice.com/index.php?controller=order
http://automationpractice.com/index.php?controller=order
http://automationpractice.com/index.php?controller=order

Hope this helps.

• user1911509: This worked well too. So, I have removed the /r from my code to output the urls to the file. It is working good. However, I have n lines of Urls in the file - however, the code executes n-1 and leaves the last Urls from the file. Any good suggestions, please ?
• Tek Nath: With example above it is executing all URLs. I tried with three as shown above.