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Sjos Sivlingworkz
Sjos Sivlingworkz

Reputation: 187

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: [name="username"]

I'm pretty new to Python and Selenium. I was following a tutorial on how to code an Instagram bot to gain followers and likes.

The program opens a Firefox window as it should, but then when it has to fill in the username and password field it does nothing. Then when i close down the window i find myself with this error.

It's really odd that i get this error because i reviewed the elements on https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ and in the username field there was a name='username' as well as an name='password' in the password field.

Can anybody help me out?

This is a piece of the code:

class InstagramBot:

def __init__(self, username, password):
    self.username = username
    self.password = password

    self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()

    self.login()

def login(self):
    self.driver.get('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/')

    self.driver.find_element_by_name('username').send_keys(self.username)

    self.driver.find_element_by_name('password').send_keys(self.password)

This is the error message. 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Python Programming/PycharmProjects/insta_bot/bot.py", line 25, in <module>
    ig_bot = InstagramBot('temp_username', 'temp_password')
  File "C:/Users/Python Programming/PycharmProjects/insta_bot/bot.py", line 14, in __init__
    self.login()
  File "C:/Users/Python Programming/PycharmProjects/insta_bot/bot.py", line 19, in login
    self.driver.find_element_by_name('username').send_keys(self.username)
  File "C:\Users\Python Programming\PycharmProjects\insta_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 496, in find_element_by_name
    return self.find_element(by=By.NAME, value=name)
  File "C:\Users\Python Programming\PycharmProjects\insta_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 978, in find_element
    'value': value})['value']
  File "C:\Users\Python Programming\PycharmProjects\insta_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\Python Programming\PycharmProjects\insta_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: [name="username"]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1633

Answers (1)

mrfreester
mrfreester

Reputation: 1991

It appears that you may need to wait for some scripts on the page to finish before that element exists.

here are the import statements you'll need:

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

Use this code to wait for that element before your send_keys line:

WebDriverWait(self.driver,10).until(
         EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "username")))

Upvotes: 4

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