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Darshan Deshmukh
Darshan Deshmukh

Reputation: 99

Exception on execution PhantomJS + Selenium Webdriver + Python program

With all installation prerequisite of PhantomJS and Selenium on my Ubuntu machine I am running below code snippet:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.set_window_size(1120, 550)
driver.get("https://duckduckgo.com/")
driver.find_element_by_id('search_form_input_homepage').send_keys("realpython")
driver.find_element_by_id("search_button_homepage").click()
print driver.current_url
driver.quit()

On execution I am getting below error:

$ python duck.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "duck.py", line 5, in <module>
    driver.find_element_by_id('search_form_input_homepage').send_keys("realpython")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 208, in find_element_by_id
    return self.find_element(by=By.ID, value=id_)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 664, in find_element
    {'using': by, 'value': value})['value']
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 175, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 166, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Error Message => 'Unable to find element with id 'search_form_input_homepage''
 caused by Request => {"headers":{"Accept":"application/json","Accept-Encoding":"identity","Connection":"close","Content-Length":"107","Content-Type":"application/json;charset=UTF-8","Host":"127.0.0.1:50789","User-Agent":"Python-urllib/2.7"},"httpVersion":"1.1","method":"POST","post":"{\"using\": \"id\", \"sessionId\": \"26560250-fec9-11e4-b2ee-2dada5838664\", \"value\": \"search_form_input_homepage\"}","url":"/element","urlParsed":{"anchor":"","query":"","file":"element","directory":"/","path":"/element","relative":"/element","port":"","host":"","password":"","user":"","userInfo":"","authority":"","protocol":"","source":"/element","queryKey":{},"chunks":["element"]},"urlOriginal":"/session/26560250-fec9-11e4-b2ee-2dada5838664/element"}
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Upvotes: 3

Views: 1761

Answers (2)

Boris Stoyanov
Boris Stoyanov

Reputation: 96

I think whats happening to you is that you try to find an element which is not loaded yet on the page. So what I can recommend is the insert a WaitForElementDisplayed(by.ID("search_form_input_homepage")); right before you try to type in the search field. So you will be sure that the element is there before trying to interact with it.

I can't really give you a code example because I'm not really familiar with the Python bindings.

Upvotes: 0

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473763

Setting --ssl-protocol=any service argument and using Explicit Waits made it work for me:

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


driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=['--ssl-protocol=any'])

driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://duckduckgo.com/")

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
search = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "search_form_input_homepage")))
search.send_keys("realpython")
driver.find_element_by_id("search_button_homepage").click()

print driver.current_url
driver.quit()

Prints https://duckduckgo.com/?q=realpython.

Note that without --ssl-protocol=any PhantomJS hasn't even loaded the page and the current url stayed as about:blank.

Upvotes: 2

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