Selenium error message "selenium.webdriver has no attribute execute script"

Question

I am using selenium to scrape an infinite scrolling page.

I am trying to use this code:

import time
import pandas as np
import numpy as np

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
url = 'https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=csubwaystats%20since%3A2018-05-28%20until%3A2018-08-28'

browser.get(url)
time.sleep(1)

SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME = 0.5

# Get scroll height
last_height = webdriver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")

while True:
    # Scroll down to bottom
    webdriver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);")

    # Wait to load page
    time.sleep(SCROLL_PAUSE_TIME)

    # Calculate new scroll height and compare with last scroll height
    new_height = webdriver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
    if new_height == last_height:
        break
    last_height = new_height

I obtained this code from multiple sources, the most recent being:

How can I scroll a web page using selenium webdriver in python?

I updated it to include "webdriver" instead of "driver" because I import selenium as webdriver. It doesn't work otherwise.

My issue is that when I run the code I get:

AttributeError: module 'selenium.webdriver' has no attribute 'execute_script'

I don't really understand what this means and how to fix it? I haven't been able to find information on this.

I am new to python and so am probably missing something obvious but any advice would be appreciated.

Answer 1

webdriver is the name of the module, not your instance of it. In fact, you assigned the instance you created to the name browser with this line: browser = webdriver.Chrome()

so instead of calling webdriver.execute_script() (which will give you an AttributeError), you must call it using your instance, like this: browser.execute_script().