I was trying to understand how to change between iframes in selenium webdriver, but I could not figure it out. In the image ahead, is the iframe that I want to switch to:

Snapshot:

CodePudding user response：

 //iframe[@class='viewer pbi-frame']

Should be a simple xpath using driver.switch_to.frame()

Or

 //iframe[@title='Power BI Report Viewer']

CodePudding user response：

In order to switch to the iframe you can use code like this:

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("//iframe[@title='PowerBi Report Viewer']"))

When finished working inside the iframe you will have to switch back to the default content with

driver.switch_to.default_content()

CodePudding user response：

The website is Power BI based, so to switch within the <iframe> so you have to:

• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.

• You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[title='PowerBi Report Viewer']")))
    

  • Using XPATH:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@title='PowerBi Report Viewer']")))
    

• 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
  

Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• Switch to an iframe through Selenium and python
• selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element while trying to click Next button with selenium
• selenium in python : NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element