Finding elements using selenium in python-CodePudding

I am trying to find and then fill in the username and password of Instagrams login page using:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import os
from selenium import webdriver
dirname = os.path.dirname(__file__)
filename = os.path.join(dirname, 'Chromedriver')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = filename)
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com")
username = driver.find_element_by_name("username")
password = driver.find_element_by_name("password")

username.send_keys("blankspace")
password.send_keys("blankspace")

however, I keep getting an error that it cant detect the element even though the name is correct

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[name="username"]"}

The HTML:

<input aria-label="Phone number, username, or email" aria-required="true" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off" maxlength="75" name="username" type="text"  value="">

CodePudding user response：

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


dirname = os.path.dirname(__file__)
filename = os.path.join(dirname, 'Chromedriver')
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com")

WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.aOOlW.bIiDR"))
)
driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.aOOlW.bIiDR").click()

username = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "username")
password = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "password")

username.send_keys("blankspace")
password.send_keys("blankspace")

driver.close()

Also consider using the updated methods find_element():

DeprecationWarning: find_element_by_* commands are deprecated. Please use find_element() instea

CodePudding user response：

I would check out Selenium documentation! Link. By going off the docs you could try the following:

username = browser.find_element(By.NAME, "username")
password = browser.find_element(By.NAME, "password")
username.send_keys("text")
password.send_keys("text")

Though I would use XPATH instead as it would be quicker:

username = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, '//[@id="loginForm"]/div/div[1]/div/label/input')
password = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="loginForm"]/div/div[2]/div/label/input')
username.send_keys("text")
password.send_keys("text")

Enjoy!

CodePudding user response：

The answer to anyone who cares to know is that Instagram loads in the body of the page after you get to it so you just have to add a delay before you start looking for the elements. Thats to @edd for pointing that out

driver.get("https://www.instagram.com")
time.sleep(5)
username = driver.find_element_by_name("username")
password = driver.find_element_by_name("password")

username.send_keys("blankspace")
password.send_keys("blankspace")