Element not interactable, even though element is in view of browser-CodePudding

I'm working on a script to download a textbook from a pdf site, however, when trying to enter the book into the search bar i get an error

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: The target element is not interactable and could not be clicked

I've tried to solve this by using EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@type='text']")) and using time.sleep(4) nothing has worked, the search bar is in view as soon as the page loads, I tried using an additional time.sleep() for extra time to load, but it still says the element isn't interactable when it's right there

this is the code

driver.switch_to.new_window('tab')
driver.get('https://www.pdfdrive.com')
time.sleep(2)
driver.fullscreen_window()
# time.sleep(4)
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@type='text']"))
bkSrch = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@type='text']") 
bkSrch.send_keys(bookLnk)
time.sleep(2)
bkSrch.send_keys(Keys.SPACE   bookRthr)

I also tried clicking the element first and it still doesn't work

I have no other idea of what to do

CodePudding user response：

EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//input[@type='text'])[2]"))
bkSrch = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "(//input[@type='text'])[2]") 
bkSrch.send_keys(bookLnk)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,".fas.fa-times"))).click()
time.sleep(2)
bkSrch.send_keys(Keys.SPACE   bookRthr)

Just click the popup like so also your text search bar was using the wrong input tag.

CodePudding user response：

Try this:

driver.get('https://www.pdfdrive.com')
time.sleep(2)
form = driver.find_element(by=By.ID, value='form-container')
inp = elem.find_element(by=By.TAG_NAME, value="input")
search_query = "it is working!"
driver.execute_script(f"arguments[0].value='{search_query}';", inp)

You can run javascript code in these cases.

For the popup, you can try waiting for 5-10 seconds first (time.sleep(5)) and then search for the close button if exists (use try-except) and if it is there, simply find the close button and click it.