Performing web scraping using selenium on influenster.com. I am getting just one scraped review even though it was in loop and the xpath was correct

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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import configparser
from datetime import datetime

parser = configparser.RawConfigParser()
parser.read('config.ini')

url= parser['PROPERTIES']['URL']
END_DATE = datetime.strptime(parser['DATE']['END'], '%Y-%m-%d')
START_DATE=datetime.strptime(parser['DATE']['START'],'%Y-%m-%d')
# Setting up driver options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# Setting up Path to chromedriver executable file
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH =r'C:\Users\HP\Desktop\INTERNSHIP\influenster\chromedriver.exe'
# Adding options
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False)
# Setting up chrome service
service = ChromeService(executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH)
# Establishing Chrom web driver using set services and options
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)

driver.get(url)

reviews=driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="app-base"]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]')
count=0
item_list = []

for review in reviews:
    item={       
        'username': review.find_element_by_xpath(".//a[contains(@class,'name')]").text,
}
    item_list.append(item)
    print(item_list)

OUTPUT IS JUST ONE NAME AND NOT ALL I need to scrape all the reviews from https://www.influenster.com/reviews/loreal-paris-elvive-extraordinary-oil-deep-nourishing-shampoo-and-conditioner-set-126-fl-oz. Even I am running a loop I am getting only one username. Please help me out

selenium screen-scraping css-selectors xpath python
1 Answers

You getting only 1 review because XPath locator you are using //*[@id="app-base"]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3] returns only 1 element, so your for loop is performed only once.
You can improve this code by improving that XPath locator.
Also you need to close the cookies banner there.
Also you need to add a wait to waif for elements to be clickable / visible before you accessing them, as following.
This should work better:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import configparser
from datetime import datetime

parser = configparser.RawConfigParser()
parser.read('config.ini')

url= parser['PROPERTIES']['URL']
END_DATE = datetime.strptime(parser['DATE']['END'], '%Y-%m-%d')
START_DATE=datetime.strptime(parser['DATE']['START'],'%Y-%m-%d')
# Setting up driver options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# Setting up Path to chromedriver executable file
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH =r'C:\Users\HP\Desktop\INTERNSHIP\influenster\chromedriver.exe'
# Adding options
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False)
# Setting up chrome service
service = ChromeService(executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH)
# Establishing Chrom web driver using set services and options
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
driver.get(url)
# The 2 lines below is what I actually added here + necessary imports
# and `wait` object initialization   
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button#onetrust-accept-btn-handler"))).click()
reviews = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".conversations-left .item")))
count=0
item_list = []

for review in reviews:
    item={       
        'username': review.find_element_by_xpath(".//a[contains(@class,'name')]").text,
}
    item_list.append(item)
    print(item_list)
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