Cannot Find Element Using Selenium Webdriver

selenium cannot find element using python

You can directly use name attribute, no need for the absolute xpath.

try this:

Css:

input[name='fsuser']

use it like this:

input_username = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='fsuser']")))
input_username.send_keys('some name')

OR

xpath:

//input[@name='fsuser']

use it like this:

input_username = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='fsuser']")))
input_username.send_keys('some name')

Imports:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Update:

NoSuchElementException:

Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML-DOM or not.

xpath that you should check :

//input[@name='fsuser']

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.

If this is unique //input[@name='fsuser'] then you need to check for the below conditions as well.

1. Check if it's in any iframe/frame/frameset.

   Solution: switch to iframe/frame/frameset first and then interact with this web element.

2. Check if it's in any shadow-root.

   Solution: Use driver.execute_script('return document.querySelector to have returned a web element and then operates accordingly.

3. Make sure that the element is rendered properly before interacting with it. Put some hardcoded delay or Explicit wait and try again.

   Solution: time.sleep(5) or

   WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='vaadin-text-field-container']//descendant::input[@part='value' and starts-with(@aria-labelledby, 'vaadin-text-field-input')]"))).send_keys("test")

4. If you have redirected to a new tab/ or new windows and you have not switched to that particular new tab/new window, otherwise you will likely get NoSuchElement exception.

   Solution: switch to the relevant window/tab first.

5. If you have switched to an iframe and the new desired element is not in the same iframe context then first switch to default content and then interact with it.

   Solution: switch to default content and then switch to respective iframe.

Selenium cannot find element by ID nor xpath

Answering to close this question.
As Alok pointed out, we need to wait for the webelement to get loaded completely before trying to access it.

driver.get ("https://a website")
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "login-username")))
driver.find_element_by_id("login-username").send_keys(login)

Can't find element on webpage with Selenium

The element with the text as Logga in is within an <iframe> so you have to:

• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.

• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable.

• You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

    driver.get("http://www.360functionalfitness.se/boka-pass/")
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[src^='https://crossfitmalmo.gymsystem.se/member#/schedule']")))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[ng-click^='showLogin'] span.ng-binding"))).click()
    

  • Using XPATH:

    driver.get("http://www.360functionalfitness.se/boka-pass/")
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[starts-with(@src, 'https://crossfitmalmo.gymsystem.se/member#/schedule')]")))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[starts-with(@ng-click, 'showLogin')]//span[@class='ng-binding']"))).click()
    

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

   from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
   from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
   from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• Ways to deal with #document under iframe
• Switch to an iframe through Selenium and python
• selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element while trying to click Next button with selenium
• selenium in python : NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element

Selenium webdriver can't find element sometimes

To find the search box on Tripadvisor instead of presence_of_element_located() you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  searchbox = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='q'][title='Search']")))
  

• Using XPATH:

  searchbox = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='q' and @title='Search']")))
  

• Note: You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

selenium webdriver unable to find element from its xpath even though the xpath is correct

You need to just give wait to load the page. Your code is perfectly fine. Either give hardcode wait like sleep or presence of element. Both will work.

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 import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)

driver.get('https://cq-portal.webomates.com/#/login')

wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//button[@type='button']")))

element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[@type='button']")
print(element.get_attribute('class'))

driver.quit()

Output:

btn btn-md btn-primary btn-block

selenium: Can not find element even with full xpath

You are missing a wait / delay.

You should let the page loaded before accessing the web element.

The best way to do that is to use expected conditions, as following:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome import service
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.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.add_argument("start-maximized")
option.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
option.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
option.add_argument("--disable-blink-features")
option.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
#option.add_argument("--headless")
option.add_argument('--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled')
wd = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()), options=option)
url = "https://greyhoundbet.racingpost.com/#results-list/r_date=2021-01-01"
wd.execute_cdp_cmd('Network.setUserAgentOverride', {"userAgent": 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36'})
wd.execute_script("Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {get: () => undefined})")
wd.get(url)
wait = WebDriverWait(wd, 20)
button = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "resultsDateBtn")))
#now you can click this button etc
button.click()

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