from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() chrome_options.add_experimental_option("detach", True) driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options) driver.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page") # wikipedia_article_count = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, value='//*[@id="articlecount"]/a[1]') # it is possible to use the method given above but the method given below should also get the job done. wikipedia_article_count = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, value="#articlecount a") # print(wikipedia_article_count.text) all_portals = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, value="Content portals") search = driver.find_element(By.NAME, value="search") search.send_keys("your-search-here", Keys.ENTER) # driver.quit()