from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

chromedriver = "C:\Users\xxx\Downloads\chromedriver-win32\chromedriver.exe"
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")  # Run in headless mode
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu") 
service = Service(chromedriver)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)

url = "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/owensrakukiln/the-laguna-clay-raku-kiln-for-owen/description"
driver.get(url)

try:
    story_section = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "story-content"))
    )
    
    story = story_section.text
    print(story)

except Exception as e:
    print(f"An error occurred: {e}")

driver.quit()

Hi everyone,

I am trying to webscrab the story section from this kickstarter campaign but I get an error “Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it’))”

Can anyone help me please with the right code? I am newbie in webscraping but I can easily webscrap information websites such as Amazon and Wikipedia for example, but I get a lot of errors whenever I try to webscrap from Kickstarter. Here is the code that I used: