Introduction: Understanding the Issue If you've ever encountered the frustrating error message stating "Element Cannot Be Found" during your automation tasks, you're not alone. In this blog post, we will explore the steps to take when facing this issue and how to troubleshoot it effectively.

Re-Recording Automation Steps One of the simplest solutions to resolve the 'Element Cannot Be Found' error is by re-recording the problematic automation step. By launching the guided window and re-recording the step in question, you can ensure a smoother automation process without errors.

Verifying Automation Processes When dealing with issues like elements not being found, it's crucial to verify that the automation is running smoothly. Checking for page loading delays and adding necessary delay steps can improve the success rate of your automation tasks.

Taking Action: Scraping and Filtering In cases where re-recording alone doesn't suffice, consider utilizing scraping and filtering techniques. By recalibrating selectors or implementing custom selectors, you can tailor your automation to handle diverse website structures effectively.

Optimizing Automation Workflow Constantly encountering 'Element Cannot Be Found' errors? It may be time to review and adjust your automation selectors. Explore options like adding custom selectors or filtering based on specific page elements to enhance the accuracy of your automation.

Conclusion: Enhancing Automation Efficiency In conclusion, addressing 'Element Cannot Be Found' errors requires a proactive approach to troubleshoot and optimize your automation processes. By following the steps outlined in this blog post, you can streamline your workflow and ensure seamless automation tasks.

Step 1- Click on green + Icon to record

Step 2- Click on Record

Step 3- Click the + Icon— Then click on Scrape Single

Step 4-Rerecord the steps and click on confirm

Step 5- Click on three dots- Then click on Update Selectors to change it

If we're having issues with a step in our automation not being successful, saying that the element was not found, um, one of the easiest things you can do is simply re record that step. So I'll go ahead and click the plus icon and then select record, which is going to launch the. Guided window, as well as the chromium window with our automation so that we can continue building.

Now, what's important here is it's, uh, you want to verify when your automation is running and you have an issue like element not found that we weren't still waiting for the page to be loaded. Maybe we need to add a delay step. Um, something like that could be possible, but what we can do to verify is we open up the guided window and then let's say that this Text right here was failing, which I believe is supposed to be getting the first, uh, the author of the first page on this profile or first post on this profile.

So I'll click the play button there. And it looks like that didn't find anything. So this might be a good example. So what I can do is, is I'll go ahead and click the plus icon and then scrape single, and I'll rerecord this step here. Just click confirm. And then I'll delete that old one that I no longer want.

I can click I'm done here. And then just to retest this, I'll go back into the guided window again, just to completely reload things, um, and be absolutely sure that that's working. We can launch this again. We'll be on this profile and all I'll need to do is click the play icon to re verify it finds the same exact thing.

So after clicking play there, we see that it found the author. Now, if we were being very thorough with this, after testing why this may or may not be working, we would want to go to another profile and re verify that this still works, unless you're trying to do this on the same profile every single time.

If you're running into issues where You're constantly having to do this. Uh, you may need to adjust these selectors in your automation, which you can do by clicking the three dots and then update selectors. If you needed to add some sort of custom selector to better handle all of the different sites you're coming across.

An alternative to that is if you can see something on the page that is constantly causing that to be, uh, different, for example, we could scrape for someone being verified, or I don't know what this badge is, but I assume it means employee or something like that. Um, You know, I would assume at least, then we can scrape and filter to run a different scrape step based on, you know, other conditions on the page.

So a couple of different ways to go about it, as far as re recording the steps, though, the easiest way to do that is going to be relaunching that guided window, deleting and re adding that step. And then just retesting to re verify that's going to work before your automation runs through all of its steps and things like that.