Solved selenium find_element_by_* commands are deprecated

In this post, we are going to learn how to Solve selenium find_element_by_* commands are deprecated, and Please use find_element() instead. To solve this warning we have to import "from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By" our code and need to use its different methods to solve selenium find_element_by to find elements by different attributes. Let us first understand how this warning arises. When we run the below code, We will see the DeprecationWarning on the console output

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://google.com")
print('driver Title:',driver.title)
button = driver.find_elements_by_name("q")
driver.quit()

Output

DeprecationWarning: find_elements_by_* commands are deprecated. Please use find_elements() instead 
  button = driver.find_elements_by_name("q")

1. Selenium Find element by ID

find_element_by_* commands are deprecated to resolve it while using find_element_by_id we have to use find_element by using the following steps

• For this, First, need to import "from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By"
• Replace find_element_by_id("element_id") with driver.find_element(By.ID, "element_id") for a single element.
• For Multiple elements Replace find_elements_by_id(“element_id”) with Mutielement = driver.find_elements(By.ID, “element_id”).

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# old syntax
element = driver.find_element_by_id("element_id")
Mutielement = driver.find_elements_by_id("element_id")


# New Syntax 
element = driver.find_element(By.ID, "element_id")
Mutielement = driver.find_elements(By.ID, "element_id")

2. Selenium Find element by classname

Find_element_by_* commands are deprecated to resolve it while using find_element_by_id we have to use find_element by using the following steps.

• For this, First, need to import "from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By"
• Replace find_element_by_class_name("class-name") with driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "class-name") for a single element.
• For Multiple elements Replace driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, “class-name”) with mutiElems= driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME,”class-name”).

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
element= driver.find_element_by_class_name("class-name")
mutiElems= driver.find_elements_by_class_name("class-name")


# replaced with new syntax
element= driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "class-name")
mutiElems= driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME,"class-name")

3. Selenium Find element by name

• For this, First, need to import "from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By"
• Replace find_element_by_name("element_namee") with driver.find_element(By.element_name, "element_name") for a single element.
• For Multiple elements Replace driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, “class-name”) with new syntax

Elename = driver.find_element_by_name("element_name")
Elenames = driver.find_elements_by_name("element_name")

# replaced with new syntax
Elename = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "element_name")
MutiElenames = driver.find_elements(By.NAME,"element_name")

4. Selenium Find elements by Using link text

• For this, First, need to import "from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By"
• Replace driver.find_element_by_link_text("element_namee") with driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "element_link_text") for a single element.
• Repaeat same step for Multiple elements Replace driver.find_elements_by_link_text(“element_link_text”) with new syntax .

#using old syntax
element = driver.find_element_by_link_text("element_link_text")
mutielement = driver.find_elements_by_link_text("element_link_text")


#using new syntax
element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "element_link_text")
mutielement = driver.find_elements(By.LINK_TEXT,"element_link_text")

5. Selenium Find elements by Partial link text

In this Python program example, to resolve this error find_element_by_* commands are deprecated to resolve it while using find_element_by_id we have to use find_element by using the following steps.

element = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("element_partial_link_text")
Mutielem = driver.find_elements_by_partial_link_text("element_partial_link_text")

#new syntax to replace with
element = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "element_partial_link_text")
Mutielem = driver.find_elements(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "element_partial_link_text")

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

#old syntax
element = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("element_tag_name")
Mutielem = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("element_tag_name")

#new syntax to replace with
element = driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "element_tag_name")
Mutielem = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "element_tag_name")

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By


#old syntax
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("element_xpath")
Mutielem = driver. find_elements_by_xpath("element_xpath")

#new syntax to replace with
element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "element_xpath")
Mutielem = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "element_xpath")

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

#old syntax
element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("element_css_selector")
Mutielem =driver. find_elements_by_css_selector("element_css_selector")

#new syntax to replace with
element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "element_css_selector")
Mutielem = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "element_css_selector")