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Sahal Nurain
Sahal Nurain

Reputation: 73

Node.JS Web scraping with Puppeteer failing with error: 'input[value type="email"' is not a valid selector

Basically, i'm trying to log in into this form:

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using this script:

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer')
const screenshot = 'carwow.png'

const scrape = async () => {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({headless:false});

    const page = await browser.newPage();

    await page.goto('https://dealers.carwow.co.uk/dealers/sign_in')

    await page.type('input type="email"', 'username')
    await page.type('input type="password"', 'password')
    await page.click('name="commit"')

    await page.waitForNavigation()
    await page.screenshot({ path: screenshot })
    browser.close()
    console.log('See screenshot: ' + screenshot)
};


scrape()

However, its failing with an error as such: Error: Evaluation failed: DOMException: Failed to execute 'querySelector' on 'Document': 'input[value type="email"' is not a valid selector.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 409

Answers (2)

Abdulhakim
Abdulhakim

Reputation: 748

@Diego is right. You can rewrite your selector paths as below:

'input[type="email"]' and 'input[type="password"]' and "*[name='commit']"

Upvotes: 1

Diego Mejia
Diego Mejia

Reputation: 141

I'm not super familiar with puppeteer but it looks like the API you're trying to use, e.g. page.type is documented here: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/v10.4.0/docs/api.md#pagetypeselector-text-options and it uses CSS selectors for the first argument to test against.

Specifically an attribute selector on an input, here is a short document from W3 on it: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_attribute_selectors.asp

You may want to try the selector

'input[type="email"]'

Upvotes: 3

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