Splinter - Element is not clickable because another element <p> obscures it - selenium

Question

I am trying to get some thumbnail pictures from a website, from src, as well as click on a link, so I can later get the big picture.
For that I'm using Splinter with BeautifulSoup.
This is the htmlfor the first element I need to get:
In order to do that I have the following code:
executable_path = {"executable_path": "/path/to/geckodriver"}
browser = Browser("firefox", **executable_path, headless=False
def get_player_images():
url = f'https://www.premierleague.com/players'
# Initiate a splinter instance of the URL
browser.visit(url)
browser.find_by_tag('div[class="table playerIndex"]')
soup = BeautifulSoup(browser.html, 'html.parser')
for el in soup:
td = el.findAll('td')
for each_td in td:
link = each_td.find('a', href=True)
if link:
print (link['href'])
image = each_td.find('img')
if image:
print(image['src'])
# run
get_player_images()
But I'm running into 2 issues, after browser opens:
I'm accessing only first two actual src for players. After that, photos are missing, which I don't get why.
/players/19970/Max-Aarons/overview
https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/40x40/p232980.png
/players/13279/Abdul-Rahman-Baba/overview
https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/40x40/p118335.png
/players/13286/Tammy-Abraham/overview
//platform-static-files.s3.amazonaws.com/premierleague/photos/players/40x40/Photo-Missing.png
/players/3512/Adam-Smith/overview
//platform-static-files.s3.amazonaws.com/premierleague/photos/players/40x40/Photo-Missing.png
/players/10905/Che-Adams/overview
....
Also, if I try to click on href link, with:
if link:
browser.click_link_by_partial_href(link['href'])
I get the error:
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: Element <a class="playerName" href="/players/19970/Max-Aarons/overview"> is not clickable at point (244,600) because another element <p> obscures it
What am I doing wrong? I'm running into a lot of troubles with selenium.

Answer 1

The player data is loaded dynamically via Javascript. You can use requests module to obtain the info.
For example:
import re
import json
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://footballapi.pulselive.com/football/players?pageSize=30&compSeasons=274&altIds=true&page={page}&type=player&id=-1&compSeasonId=274'
img_url = 'https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/{player_id}.png'
headers = {'Origin': 'https://www.premierleague.com'}
for page in range(1, 10): # <--- increase this to desired number of pages
data = requests.get(url.format(page=page), headers=headers).json()
# uncoment this to print all data:
# print(json.dumps(data, indent=4))
for player in data['content']:
print('{:<50} {}'.format(player['name']['display'], img_url.format(player_id=player['altIds']['opta'])))
Prints:
Ethan Ampadu https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p199598.png
Joseph Anang https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p447879.png
Florin Andone https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p93284.png
André Gomes https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p120250.png
Andreas Pereira https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p156689.png
Angeliño https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p145235.png
Faustino Anjorin https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p223332.png
Michail Antonio https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p57531.png
Cameron Archer https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p433979.png
Archie Davies https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p215061.png
Stuart Armstrong https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p91047.png
Marko Arnautovic https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p41464.png
Kepa Arrizabalaga https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p109745.png
Harry Arter https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p48615.png
Daniel Arzani https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/photos/players/250x250/p200797.png
... and so on.
Note: to get smaller thumbnails, change 250x250 in the image URLs to 40x40