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makenzie collins
makenzie collins

Reputation: 41

Cannot Find Element by Id? Selenium Python

I am trying to use selenium on this site(https://www.kijiji.ca/t-login.html)

here is the code I use

driver=webdriver.Chrome(PATH)

driver.get("https://www.kijiji.ca/t-login.html")

driver.find_element_by_id("emailOrNickname")

but I keep getting

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="emailOrNickname"]"}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 157

Answers (4)

Justin Lambert
Justin Lambert

Reputation: 978

please use following xpath to click and sendkeys to email field

 driver=webdriver.Chrome(PATH)

driver.get("https://www.kijiji.ca/t-login.html")

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id="emailOrNickname"]");

Upvotes: 0

Rusticus
Rusticus

Reputation: 382

There's nothing wrong with your code. If you look at the response headers from the site you will see

server: rhino-core-shield

This is an indication that the server could be protected by a web application firewall.

If you inspect what you're actually getting back from the website using

driver.page_source

you will see that you're not actually getting the login page you expected, instead you are getting a horrible pile of Javascript which will presumably redirect to the real login page. The upshot is that this particular website's login page is going to be quite difficult to access programatically.

Upvotes: 1

madogan
madogan

Reputation: 665

I think this website detects selenium. Because I can reach the site with normal browser but selenium does not show anything at login or register page. You need to bypass it if possible.

Upvotes: 1

Aramakus
Aramakus

Reputation: 1920

Try

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'html.parser')
soup.find_all('input', {'id': 'emailOrNickname'})`

Upvotes: 1

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