Sb_cdp / Using find_element without timout ?

[BrianARR]

Hello !

I'm using the find_element function, like that :

sb = sb_cdp.Chrome(proxy=proxy, window_size="1920,1080", headed=True)
sb.find_element()

But the minimum timeout is 2 seconds
Is there a way to retrieve an element instantly (and None if it doesn't exist), as is the case with the Selenium web driver?
I tried using driver.page.query_selector() directly, but the function is asynchronous, which bothers me a bit in the context I'm working in.

Thank you in advance for your help.

[mdmintz]

Set the timeout arg in:

SeleniumBase/seleniumbase/core/sb_cdp.py

Line 143 in a0ae330

def find_element(self, selector, best_match=False, timeout=None):

If you're using the unofficial TAG:contains("TEXT") selector, then it will be slower since that's not a real CSS selector.

[BrianARR]

Yes, but if the element is not on the page, the default timeout applies (7 seconds):
Element {iframe[title='SP Consent Message']} was not found after 7 seconds!

Ideally, I would like to retrieve None if it is not in the page, without waiting 7 secondes.

[mdmintz]

I ran this to look for an element that doesn't exist:
find_element("zzz", timeout=0.1)

It errored as expected:

*** Exception: 
 Element {zzz} was not found after 0.1 seconds!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/michael/github/SeleniumBase/seleniumbase/core/sb_cdp.py", line 178, in find_element
    raise Exception(message)

That method will always fail if the element doesn't exist within the given timeout.

If you want a conditional, (which returns True or False instead of failing), then you have:

SeleniumBase/examples/cdp_mode/ReadMe.md

Lines 481 to 483 in a0ae330

	sb.cdp.is_element_present(selector)
	sb.cdp.is_element_visible(selector)
	sb.cdp.is_text_visible(text, selector="body")

[BrianARR]

Indeed! I was setting timeout=0 instead of timeout=0.01.
Thanks!