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MistaRen476
MistaRen476

Reputation: 55

.click() and .send_keys() methods not being recognized Python Selenium

I'm using Selenium in Python to click a text entry field and write some text into it. Neither the .click() nor .send_keys() methods are being recognized. Can someone help with this?

Also, is there a way to stop Selenium from printing to the console automatically? My program is console-based and Selenium is writing things to an input() that I gave because it prints to the console.

Here is a code snippet:

url = "https://weather.com/weather/today/l/69ef4b6e85ca2de422bea7adf090b06c1516c53e3c4302a01b00ba763d49be65"
browser = webdriver.Edge("Web Scrapers\msedgedriver.exe")
browser.get(url)
textbox = browser.find_element_by_id("LocationSearch_input")
textbox.click()
textbox.send_keys(zipcode)
textbox.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1299

Answers (4)

cruisepandey
cruisepandey

Reputation: 29382

I would suggest you to do it with explicit wait.

I am giving this answer, cause none of the answer's are really using Explicit waits with ID attribute :

driver.maximize_window()
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get("https://weather.com/weather/today/l/69ef4b6e85ca2de422bea7adf090b06c1516c53e3c4302a01b00ba763d49be65")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "LocationSearch_input"))).send_keys('60007' + Keys.RETURN)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[class^='CurrentConditions--dataWrapperInner']"))).click()

Imports :

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

Upvotes: 0

YaDav MaNish
YaDav MaNish

Reputation: 1352

you could try the explicitWait hope this will work for you

WebDriverWait(browser,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//input[@type='text']"))).send_keys("20874",Keys.RETURN)

Upvotes: 1

Jeremy Kahan
Jeremy Kahan

Reputation: 3826

At least testing in firefox, it's a timing thing. The click works. The error of element not interactable (not reachable by keyboard) comes off of the send_keys line. If we wait after the click(), the element becomes reachable by keyboard.

The following could probably be refined (really don't like sleep, but sometimes it works), but works for me:

url = "https://weather.com/weather/today/l/69ef4b6e85ca2de422bea7adf090b06c1516c53e3c4302a01b00ba763d49be65"
browser.get(url)
browser.find_element_by_id('LocationSearch_input').click()
time.sleep(5)
browser.find_element_by_id('LocationSearch_input').send_keys('Boston')

At that point you need to click on whichever of the 10 options is what you really want.

Upvotes: 0

dir
dir

Reputation: 729

From what I can tell, everything is working fine here, however you are pointing your textbox variable to the wrong HTML element.

LocationSearch_input is a hidden label that isn't directly attached to the searchbox. I would try pointing it to

SearchInput--SearchInput--M7lKl SearchInput--enableSearchIcon--1Ugsx, one of the parent elements.

Upvotes: 0

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