What causes the return of an empty object when using element or xpath searches with HTMLSession in requests-html?

I am looking to confirm the existence of a specific element. My approach is to print it out so that I can compare it with a string or another value.

Below is the code causing issues:

session = HTMLSession()
r = session.get('https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sony-PlayStation-5-Video-Game-Console/994712501')

r.html.render(timeout=20)# this call executes the js in the page

oos=r.html.xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div/div/div/div[3]/div[5]/div/div[3]/div/div[2]/div[1]/section/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div')

print(oos)

#print returns [] 

When I try to print(oos.text), I encounter a callback error

#'list' object has no attribute 'text'

I also attempted print(oos.full_text) but encountered the same error

'list' object has no attribute 'full_text'

It appears to be a list, so I decided to iterate through it:

for i in oos:       
  print(i)
#Prints absolutely nothing!

Answer №1

It seems like the element is not present. After inspecting the printed HTML, it appears that I am being redirected to a captcha page.

As a result, I will infer that the [] denotes an empty list and the code is functioning correctly for the most part.

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