stale element crashes

[ndroock1]

I regularly get errors like:

[INFO ] 2017-11-17 14:14:59.927 [pool-4-thread-2] QueryWorker - stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
  (Session info: headless chrome=62.0.3202.94)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.31.488763 (092de99f48a300323ecf8c2a4e2e7cab51de5ba8),platform=Windows NT 10.0.15063 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/stale_element_reference.html

do you recognize them? Any ideas how to approach them?

Currently I just restart the thread and try again, eventually I am able to scrape the data off the target website but I have the feeling I use the wrong approach.

[ddavison]

is there a stack trace you can share? it's possible that it's coming from one of the built-in waits. if it's not, then it might be possible to use a custom explicit wait

[ndroock1]

This is the original stack trace.

[INFO ] 2017-11-17 14:14:59.927 [pool-4-thread-2] QueryWorker - stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
  (Session info: headless chrome=62.0.3202.94)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.31.488763 (092de99f48a300323ecf8c2a4e2e7cab51de5ba8),platform=Windows NT 10.0.15063 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/stale_element_reference.html
Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
System info: host: 'DESKTOP-IBQBHCN', ip: '192.168.56.1', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_151'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Capabilities [{mobileEmulationEnabled=false, hasTouchScreen=false, platform=XP, acceptSslCerts=true, webStorageEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, platformName=XP, setWindowRect=true, unexpectedAlertBehaviour=, applicationCacheEnabled=false, rotatable=false, networkConnectionEnabled=false, chrome={chromedriverVersion=2.31.488763 (092de99f48a300323ecf8c2a4e2e7cab51de5ba8), userDataDir=C:\Users\Nilo\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir15548_4620}, takesHeapSnapshot=true, pageLoadStrategy=normal, unhandledPromptBehavior=, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, version=62.0.3202.94, browserConnectionEnabled=false, nativeEvents=true, locationContextEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true}]
Session ID: 910cc36b804fa105e8a549625297df19