[from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://youtube.com')
searchbox = driver.find_element("xpath",'//*[@id="search"]')
searchbox.send_keys("Akram Khan")
searchButton = driver.find_element("xpath",'//*[@id="search-icon-legacy"]')
searchButton.click()]

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The function [searchbox.send_keys("Akram Khan")] have to be write the mentioned text("Akram Khan") inside the search box of YouTUbe.

CodePudding user response：

So the problem is that when you first try to get the searchbox element with the current version that you had it was searching for the first occurrence of an element with id='search' which there is an element that is before not connected to the search box (therefore send_keys() to that element doesn't work). You can get the specific element that you want by specifying the tag that it is with your current code by doing (because the input element is what you want to be sending your response to):

searchbox = driver.find_element("xpath",'//input[@id="search"]')

CodePudding user response：

There could be several reasons why the send_keys() method is not writing the text to the search box as expected. Here are a few things you can try:

1. Make sure that the element you are trying to write to is actually the search box. You can check this by inspecting the element in your browser's developer tools and comparing it to the element you are trying to write to.

2. Make sure that the element is not disabled or read-only. If the element is disabled or read-only, the send_keys() method will not be able to write to it.

3. Make sure that the element is visible and not obscured by another element. The send_keys() method will not be able to write to an element if it is not visible on the page.

4. Make sure that you are not running into any synchronization issues. If the page is still loading or if the search box is not yet interactive, the send_keys() method may fail. In this case, you can try using the WebDriverWait class from the selenium.webdriver.common.by module to wait for the element to become interactive before attempting to write to it.

    from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
    from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
   
    wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
    searchbox = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="search"]')))
    searchbox.send_keys("Akram Khan")