I'm trying to learn Selenium. The code below should open fastmail in Chrome and allow me to search for the specified web element.
I can get this to work in the Python interpreter by entering the code line by line.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
driver.get("https://www.fastmail.com/login/")
username = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'v17-input')
However, when I try to run it as a full Python script I am unable to find the element I am looking for. The error message is below.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\MyPythonScripts\test.py", line 9, in <module>
username = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'v17-input')
File "C:\Users\slong\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 856, in find_element
return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
File "C:\Users\slong\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 429, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\slong\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 243, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="v17-input"]"}
(Session info: chrome=106.0.5249.119)
Stacktrace:
Backtrace:
Ordinal0 [0x00801ED3+2236115]
Ordinal0 [0x007992F1+1807089]
Ordinal0 [0x006A66FD+812797]
Ordinal0 [0x006D55DF+1005023]
Ordinal0 [0x006D57CB+1005515]
Ordinal0 [0x00707632+1209906]
Ordinal0 [0x006F1AD4+1120980]
Ordinal0 [0x007059E2+1202658]
Ordinal0 [0x006F18A6+1120422]
Ordinal0 [0x006CA73D+960317]
Ordinal0 [0x006CB71F+964383]
GetHandleVerifier [0x00AAE7E2+2743074]
GetHandleVerifier [0x00AA08D4+2685972]
GetHandleVerifier [0x00892BAA+532202]
GetHandleVerifier [0x00891990+527568]
Ordinal0 [0x007A080C+1837068]
Ordinal0 [0x007A4CD8+1854680]
Ordinal0 [0x007A4DC5+1854917]
Ordinal0 [0x007AED64+1895780]
BaseThreadInitThunk [0x76926739+25]
RtlGetFullPathName_UEx [0x777A8FD2+1218]
RtlGetFullPathName_UEx [0x777A8F9D+1165]
And I have not clue what it's about. The error message seems to imply that it is unable to locate the element.
I see 2 problems here:
WebDriverWait
expected_conditions
is the right tool for this.This code worked:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
webdriver_service = Service('C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=webdriver_service, options=options)
url = 'https://www.fastmail.com/login/'
driver.get(url)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
username_field = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "v16-input")))
password_field = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "v17-input")))