Here is the html code:
< input class="form-control input-lg input auto-complete" id="ymMsgInput" type="text" placeholder="Type your message ..." autocomplete="off" >
Code:
i = s.find_element_by_id("ymMsgInput");
Python - Selenium Chrome webdriver error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#19>", line 1, in <module>
i = s.find_element_by_id("ymMsgInput");
File "C:\Users\vishn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 351, in find_element_by_id
return self.find_element(by=By.ID, value=id_)
File "C:\Users\vishn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 955, in find_element
'value': value})['value']
File "C:\Users\vishn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 312, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\vishn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable
(Session info: chrome=65.0.3325.146)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.36.540470 (e522d04694c7ebea4ba8821272dbef4f9b818c91),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64)
The error says it all :
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable
This error is observed in case of version compatibility between the binaries which an user uses but definitely this is not your case as you are :
Selenium version unknown
Release Notes of chromedriver=2.36 clearly mentions :
Supports Chrome v65-66
But, since the release of the latest Chromedriver 2.36 Selenium users had been facing issues with it. Here is one of the threads :
The root cause is related to the commit regarding :
So, a couple of possible solution will be to :
To use ChromeOptions Class to maximize the browser.
disable-infobarsAn example :
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
If your issue still persists consider the following :
Test.