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selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":XPATH}

A while back, I created this script that downloads a file from a website into a specified folder using Selenium. It's been working fine for the past couple months, but after updating the ChromeDriver to 111.0.5563.64 (March 20, 2023), the code is no longer working, producing an error on line 58:

download_icon = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, dwnicon)

The error says it can't locate the element (which I've asked for it to trace using XPATH) --

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\ujcho\Desktop\Internal Weekly Bluesheet\HomicideReportCollector.py", line 58, in <module>
    download_icon = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, dwnicon)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\ujcho\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 830, in find_element
    return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {"using": by, "value": value})["value"]
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\ujcho\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 440, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\ujcho\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 245, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id='icon']/iron-icon"}
  (Session info: headless chrome=111.0.5563.65)
Stacktrace:
Backtrace:
        (No symbol) [0x0027DCE3]
        (No symbol) [0x002139D1]
        (No symbol) [0x00124DA8]
        (No symbol) [0x0015019F]
        (No symbol) [0x001503AB]
        (No symbol) [0x0017EE62]
        (No symbol) [0x0016AF14]
        (No symbol) [0x0017D57C]
        (No symbol) [0x0016ACC6]
        (No symbol) [0x00146F68]
        (No symbol) [0x001480CD]
        GetHandleVerifier [0x004F3832+2506274]
        GetHandleVerifier [0x00529794+2727300]
        GetHandleVerifier [0x0052E36C+2746716]
        GetHandleVerifier [0x00326690+617600]
        (No symbol) [0x0021C712]
        (No symbol) [0x00221FF8]
        (No symbol) [0x002220DB]
        (No symbol) [0x0022C63B]
        BaseThreadInitThunk [0x75D4FA29+25]
        DummyExport [0x6CC7CA11+42177]
        RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x77DE7A7E+286]
        RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x77DE7A4E+238]
        (No symbol) [0x00000000]

I have perused the Stack Overflow pages, and I couldn't find a solution to this issue. I've tried re-copying and re-pasting the XPATH for the Download icon to my script, but it's the same. I've also added a driver.implicitly_wait() command before it tries to find the element, but to no avail. Can anyone provide any insight on what may be the source of the problem? I wonder if it has to do with the recent ChromeDriver update. I've pasted the entire code of my script below. Thanks in advance.

    from requests import get
    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
    from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
    from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
    from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
    from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
    from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
    from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
    import shutil
    import time
    from datetime import date
    import pandas as pd
    import os

#This script goes into the KCPD Crime Statistics Website and collects the Daily Homicide Analysis Report

#Helper Function to Cause Selenium to Wait to Find the Element Before Downloading
def waitFunction(driver, wait, text):
    try:
        wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, text)))
    except TimeoutException:
        return False

#Loading Webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
prefs = {"download.default_directory" : r'C:\Users\ujcho\Desktop\Internal Weekly Bluesheet\Daily KCPD Homicide Reports'}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
options.add_argument('--headless')
chromedriver = Service(r'C:\Users\ujcho\Desktop\Internal Weekly Bluesheet\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=chromedriver, options=options)
# driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

url = "https://www.kcpd.org/crime/crime-statistics/"

wait = WebDriverWait(driver,5)

#Loading necessary variables
today_date = date.today().strftime('%m%d%Y')
print("Today is", today_date)

# driver.get(url)
driver.get(url)
link = "/html/body/main/div/div[2]/section/div/article/div/div/div/div/div/div/table[1]/tbody/tr[1]/td/p/a"
waitFunction(driver,wait,link)
doclink = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, link)
doclink.click()


dwnicon = "//*[@id='icon']/iron-icon"
driver.implicitly_wait(20)
waitFunction(driver,wait,dwnicon)
download_icon = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, dwnicon)
download_icon.click()

time.sleep(10)

alert = Alert(driver)
alert.accept()


source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75803979/selenium-common-exceptions-nosuchelementexception-message-no-such-element-una

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