selenium bot does not work when you press the bot-CodePudding

I'm currently creating a selenium bot to create a bot for entering in kahoots. The problem is when i enter the code and I try to automatically write the nickname in the textfield the script gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/marcovinciguerra/Github/Python/Selenium _Kahoot_bot/a.py", line 32, in <module>
    test_a()
  File "/Users/marcovinciguerra/Github/Python/Selenium _Kahoot_bot/a.py", line 24, in test_a
    driver.find_element(By.ID, "nickname").click()
  File "/Users/marcovinciguerra/opt/anaconda3/envs/envpython/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 976, in find_element
    return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
  File "/Users/marcovinciguerra/opt/anaconda3/envs/envpython/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/Users/marcovinciguerra/opt/anaconda3/envs/envpython/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="nickname"]"}
  (Session info: chrome=104.0.5112.79)

The code of the script is the following:

def test_a():
driver.get("https://kahoot.it/")
driver.set_window_size(1512, 945)
driver.find_element(By.ID, "game-input").click()
driver.find_element(By.ID, "game-input").send_keys("14988")
driver.find_element(By.ID, "game-input").send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
driver.find_element(By.ID, "nickname").click()
driver.find_element(By.ID, "nickname").send_keys("vinci0000")
driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".sc-jJEJSO").click()
element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".sc-jJEJSO")
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.move_to_element(element).perform()

if name == "main": test_a()

And the textfield i wanna enter the text is the following:

<input name="nickname" type="text" placeholder="Nickname" maxlength="15" id="nickname" data-functional-selector="username-input"  autocomplete="off" dir="ltr" value="jjj">

CodePudding user response：

According to error trace, your issue is not finding the element in page. If that element is not in an iframe, or in a shadow root element and the ID attribute is correct, you should be able to locate it with:

text_field = WebDriverWait(browser,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "nickname")))

You also need the following imports:

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

And lastly, Selenium documentation can be found at https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/

It would be wise to wait out the rest of the elements you are trying to locate, to make sure they are loaded and interactable.

CodePudding user response：

As per the HTML provided:

<input name="nickname" type="text" placeholder="Nickname" maxlength="15" id="nickname" data-functional-selector="username-input"  autocomplete="off" dir="ltr" value="jjj">

I don't see any such issues in the locator strategy you have used, i.e.

driver.find_element(By.ID, "nickname")

Solution

Ideally to send a character sequence to the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using ID:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "nickname"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#nickname"))).send_keys("vinci0000")

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='nickname']"))).send_keys("vinci0000")

Note: You have to add the following imports :

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