How to access the iframe using Selenium and Python on Glassdoor-CodePudding

I am trying to automate application process on Glassdoor using the EasyApply button. Now after identifying the EasyApply Button and successfully clicking it, I need to switch to the Frame so as to access the HTML content of the form to be able to send in my form details.

I used:

wait.until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#indeedapply-modal-preload-1658752913396-iframe")))

to perform the switching but still could not access the frame's html content.

Here is the block that performs this operation:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait, Select
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
#if it has easy-apply, then perform application

if len(driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="JDCol"]/div/article/div/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[1]/button')) > 0:
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="JDCol"]/div/article/div/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[1]/button').click()
    wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 50)
    time.sleep(5)
    wait.until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#indeedapply-modal-preload-1658752913396-iframe")))
    name = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#input-applicant.name')
    name.send_keys('Oluyele Anthony')
elif len(driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="JDCol"]/div/article/div/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[1]/a')) > 0:
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="JDCol"]/div/article/div/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[1]/a').click()

Here is the HTML content for the frame

<iframe name="indeedapply-modal-preload-1659146630884-iframe" id="indeedapply-modal-preload-1659146630884-iframe" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" title="Job application form container" src="https://apply.indeed.com/indeedapply/xpc?v=5#{"cn":"4AaHlXdnW4","ppu":"https://www.glassdoor.com/robots.txt","lpu":"https://apply.indeed.com/robots.txt","setupms":1659146630959,"preload":true,"iaUid":"1g96dgr7uii3h800","parentURL":"https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/nigeria-data-science-jobs-SRCH_IL.0,7_IN177_KO8,20.htm?clickSource=searchBox"}" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe>

Apparently, after running the cell, the:

TimeoutException: Message:

Error occurs which shows that the frame is not being switched to.

CodePudding user response：

Try:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[starts-with(@name, 'indeedapply-modal')]"))

And if you need to go to the regular content then switch_to.default_content

driver.switch_to.default_content()

CodePudding user response：

The middle part of the value of id attribute i.e. 1658752913396 is dynamically generated and is bound to change sooner/later. They may change next time you access the application afresh or even while next application startup. So can't be used in locators.

Solution

To switch to the <iframe> you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using id attribute:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[title='Job application form container'][id^='indeedapply-modal-preload']")))

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[title='Job application form container' and starts-with(@id, 'indeedapply-modal-preload')]")))

Using name attribute:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[title='Job application form container'][name^='indeedapply-modal-preload']")))

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[title='Job application form container' and starts-with(@name, 'indeedapply-modal-preload')]")))

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