Selenium python cannot find element-CodePudding

I am trying to automatically login the website using selenium with python. However, I got error as below.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\KienThong\Automation\Learning\GmailDemo.py", line 15, in <module>
    ID = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
  File "C:\Python385\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 89, in until
    raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

My code:

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

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.englishforum.com/study/login/")
driver.maximize_window()
try:
    ID = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "_xfUid-1-1643985254"))
    )
    ID.send_keys("[email protected]")
finally:
    driver.quit()

CodePudding user response：

The reason why you are having an error is that the ID that you are using is dynamic and changes everytime the page is loaded. Therefore we need to use a static identifier which we can with name="login"

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.englishforum.com/study/login/")
driver.maximize_window()
try:
    ID = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "login"))
    )
    ID.send_keys("[email protected]")
finally:
    driver.quit()

CodePudding user response：

you dont need to tell the driver to wait till the element is present your can simply its xpath as it will executed only after page loads so use:

   ID = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[2]/div/div[4]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/form/div[1]/div/dl[1]/dd/input")
   ID.send_keys("[email protected]")

using xpath to locating the element is very easy and easy to locate. just 1.inspect the element 2.right click on the element 3. copy full xpath