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Mr_Happy
Mr_Happy

Reputation: 39

Selenium NoSuchElement Exception with specific website

I'm recently trying to learn Selenium and found a website that just ignores my attempts to find particular element by ID, name or xpath. The website is here:

https://www.creditview.pl/PL/Creditview.htm

I am trying to select first text window, the one labeled Uzytkownik, the code for it goes like that:

I am trying to find it using several methods:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome()

site = "https://www.creditview.pl/pl/creditview.htm"
browser.get(site)

login_txt = browser.find_element_by_xpath(r"/html//input[@id='ud_username']")
login_txt2 = browser.find_element_by_id("ud_username")
login_txt3 = browser.find_element_by_name("ud_username")

No matter what I try I keep getting: selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element:

as if the element wasn't there at all.

I have suspected that the little frame containing the field might be an iframe and tried to switch to various elements with no luck. Also tried to check if the element isn't somehow obscured to my code (hidden element). Nothing seems to work, or I am making some newbie mistake and the answer is right in front of me. Finally I was able to select other element on the site and used several TAB keys to move cursor to desired position, but is feels like cheating.

Can someone please point show me how to find the element ? I literally can't sleep because of this issue :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 97

Answers (1)

sudonym
sudonym

Reputation: 4028

Given that your element is there, you still need to wait for your element to be loaded/visible/clickable etc. You can do that using selenium's expected conditions (EC).

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

my_XPATH = r"/html//input[@id='ud_username']"
wait_time = 10  # Define maximum time to wait in seconds

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
site = "https://www.creditview.pl/pl/creditview.htm"
driver.get(site)

try:
    my_element = driver.WebDriverWait(driver, wait_time).until(EC.presence_of_element_located(By.XPATH,my_XPATH))
except:
    print ("element not found after %d seconds" % (wait_time))

Upvotes: 1

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