Automating LinkedIn Signup with Python Selenium – Element Locators Issue

Title: Selenium TimeoutException when locating email field on LinkedIn sign-up page

Description: My automated test fails when trying to locate the email field on LinkedIn's sign-up page after clicking "Join now". The test throws a TimeoutException after 5 seconds of waiting, despite the element being visible when I manually inspect the page.

Error Details: File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\unittest\case.py", line 628, in run testMethod() File "C:\Users\User\PycharmProjects\LinkedinApp\TestLinkedin.py", line 28, in test_SignUp email_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(email)) File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 80, in until raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Relevant Code:

email = ".//*[@id='join-email']"  # Current XPath selector
email_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
    lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(email))

What I've Tried:

Verified the element exists in DevTools (ID: join-email)

Increased wait time to 10+ seconds

Confirmed the page loads completely

Tried both XPath and CSS selector approaches

Additional Information:

Using Selenium 3.141.0 with Python 3.7

ChromeDriver version: [your version here]

The element HTML (from DevTools):

<input id="join-email" name="email" type="text">

Solution

There is nothing wrong with your locator strategy, i think you wrong placement WebDriverWait for email locator .//*[@id='join-email'], this locator appears after you click Join now. You can try this code :

join_now_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_link_text(join_now))

join_now_element.click()

#first_name_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_name(first_name))
#last_name_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_name(last_name))
email_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(email))
#password_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id(password))
#agree_and_join_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until( lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_name(agree_and_join))

And it looks like you don't need to wait for first_name_element last_name_element password_element agree_and_join_element, it's already represented by email_element