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Selenium no such element exception

Im trying to get this link
<ul class="row">
<li class="col-md-3 col-xs-12 col-sm-6 episodeLink37027" data-lang-key="1" data-link-id="37027" data-link-target="/redirect/37027" data-external-embed="false">
<div class="generateInlinePlayer">
<a class="watchEpisode" itemprop="url" href="/redirect/37027" target="_blank">
<i class="icon VOE" title="Hoster VOE"></i>
<h4>VOE</h4>
<div class="hosterSiteVideoButton">Video öffnen</div>
...
I already tried:
button = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("watchEpisode")
and
button = driver.find_element_by_class_name("a.watchEpisode")
I always get an no such element Exception. Are there other ways to get this element?

Try this
button = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a.watchEpisode")
or
button = driver.find_element_by_class_name("watchEpisode")
Don't forget to add a delay / wait before accessing this element
UPD
I see no iframes there, but the locator can be improved.
Try this code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver import WebDriver
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
import time
CHROMEDRIVER = r"C:\Users\Nico\Desktop\automate_download\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER)
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
actions = ActionChains(driver)
driver.get("https://anicloud.io/anime/stream/attack-on-titan")
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[#title="Staffel 1 Episode 1"]'))).click()
button = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//li[not(contains(#style,'none'))]//i[#title='Hoster VOE']/..//div[#class='hosterSiteVideoButton']")))
actions.move_to_element(button).perform()
time.sleep(0.5)
#now you can click this element
button.click()

Try this one, see if it works.
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#class='watchEpisode']")

probably you can try with this css selector :
div.generateInlinePlayer>a.watchEpisode
or this xpath:
//div[#class='generateInlinePlayer']//child::a[#class='watchEpisode']
PS : Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.
Steps to check:
Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.
to get the href you can try the below code :
Code trial 1 :
time.sleep(5)
val = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='generateInlinePlayer']//child::a[#class='watchEpisode']").get_attribute('href')
print(val)
Code trial 2 :
val = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[#class='generateInlinePlayer']//child::a[#class='watchEpisode']"))).get_attribute('href')
print(val)
Code trial 3 :
time.sleep(5)
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='generateInlinePlayer']//child::a[#class='watchEpisode'])
val = driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].value", button)
print(val)
Code trial 4 :
time.sleep(5)
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='generateInlinePlayer']//child::a[#class='watchEpisode']")
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(button).perform()
print(button.get_attribute('href'))
Imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

How to access the second div node in Selenium (Python)

The following HTML code is as proceeds:
<div class="lower-text">
<div data-text="winScreen.yourCodeIs">Your Code Is:</div>
<div>GENERATEDCODE</div>
What I'm trying to access is the second div node (the randomly generated number) in the class "lower-text"
try:
element = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(
EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'lower-text'))
)
finally:
found = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[#class='lower-text'][2]").text
print(found)
This is what I've tried with no success.
I am unsure as how to access the second div node. Any help would be appreciated.

Please try below solution ::
element = WebDriverWait(driver, delay).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[#data-text='winScreen.yournumberis']/following-sibling::div")))
print element.text
Also you need to add below imports
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as Wait
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium import webdriver

Find element by only a part of its XPath using Selenium

I'm trying to find elements which have changing XPaths with only one part staying the same:
//*[#id="foo"]div[2]/div[1]/time
//*[#id="bar"]div/div[2]/div[1]/time
//*[#id="bat"]div[1]div[2]/div[1]/time
I already tried using driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), '/div[2]/div[1]/time')]") but this doesn't seem to work.
Here is some example HTML:
<div class="entry-container">
<div class="entry-head">
<h3> some text </h3>
<time class="timestamp" datetime="2020-01-23 08:04:32 UTC">
Today at 18:34
</time>
</div>
</div>
I want to get the text from the time element.

The following XPath expression:
//div/div//time
will give you all time elements anywhere having two div elements as ancestor. This works for the example paths you provided.

Try this x path locator:
.//div[#class]/time

To handle dynamic element induce WebDriverWait() and visibility_of_element_located() and following xpath options.
XPath1 :
print(WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//h3[contains(.,'some text')]/following-sibling::time[1]"))).text)
XPath2 :
print(WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//h3[contains(.,'some text')]/following::time[1]"))).text)
XPath3 :
print(WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//div[#class='entry-head']//h3[contains(.,'some text')]/following-sibling::time[1]"))).text)
You need to add following libraries.
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

try with below code using Xpath and CSS with webdriver wait so element will be loaded in DOM
Imports:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
Xpath -1
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//time[#class='timestamp'])[1]")))
OR
Xpath -2
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//time)[1]")))
By CSS
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR , "time.timestamp")))

How to get html element inside button?

<button type="button" name="abc" id="abc" class="bp" onmouseover="this.className = 'bp bph'" onmouseout="this.className = 'bp'" onclick="oCV_NS_.promptAction('finish')" style="font-family:"Arial";font-size:9pt">
<span tabindex="0">GENERATE REPORT</span>
</button>
I want to click this button and tried few codes but nothing worked
tried:
driver.find_element_by_id("abc").click();
driver.find_element(By.ID, "abc")
element_by_name also tried

Please try below code and also check if button is not part of iframe:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
wait = WebDriverWait(browser, 10)
button= wait.until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.ID, "abc")))
button.click()

Try use with the below xpath:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[#id='abc']/span").click()

Python Selenium select div class with blanks

I've got a problem while trying to select a div tag class that has some white spaces in it.
This is the structure of page:
<div class="sadasd-dashboardtab even asdasd-syndicating_from_my_file" id="124121_1540012412412414">
<div id="124121_154006585856856858">
<span class="label">Syndicating From My File</span>
<button class="column-dropdown" title="Click for more tab options"></button>
</div>
</div>
This are my tries of code for this part:
#syndicating_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[text()='Syndicating From My File']")
#syndicating_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='yui3-dashboardtab even s-tab-syndicating_from_my_site']")
syndicating_button = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.yui3-dashboardtab.even.s-tab-syndicating_from_my_site")
syndicating_button.click()

Your issue has nothing to do with "blanks"/"whitespaces" as your selectors should work well... if element is present in DOM. Try to wait until element appears in DOM and becomes clickable:
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
wait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Syndicating From My Site']"))).click()