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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 44385

How to select input box on google webpage for simple selenium test?

I have created the following simple selenium test in order to start a browser, navigate to the google main page and to insert some text in the search box:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.google.com')
elem = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//input')  # Find the search box
elem.send_keys('do a test search' + Keys.RETURN)

However, I get the following error in the send_keys line:

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: Element is not visible

Maybe this is a bad way to select the prominent input box on the google page? How to do it better?

(Remark: This is just supposed to be a simple setup to get selenium going. The system under test will be a different webpage, but I just want to make sure it works in this simple case...)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 137

Answers (1)

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52685

There are couple of hidden input elements located before search input field.

browser.find_element_by_xpath('//input') means return FIRST "input" node in DOM. That's why your elem is actually hidden node and not interactable.

Try below instead

elem = browser.find_element_by_name("q")

Upvotes: 1

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