.click() and .send_keys() methods not being recognized Python Selenium

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I'm using Selenium in Python to click a text entry field and write some text into it. Neither the .click() nor .send_keys() methods are being recognized. Can someone help with this?

Also, is there a way to stop Selenium from printing to the console automatically? My program is console-based and Selenium is writing things to an input() that I gave because it prints to the console.

Here is a code snippet:

url = "https://weather.com/weather/today/l/69ef4b6e85ca2de422bea7adf090b06c1516c53e3c4302a01b00ba763d49be65"
browser = webdriver.Edge("Web Scrapers\msedgedriver.exe")
browser.get(url)
textbox = browser.find_element_by_id("LocationSearch_input")
textbox.click()
textbox.send_keys(zipcode)
textbox.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

Can you please provide minimal reproducible example to see what you had done? — imxitiz
– imxitiz, Commented Jul 20, 2021 at 19:59
@JeremyKahan it's rendered fairly immediately, he's trying to grab a hidden element is the problem — dir
– dir, Commented Jul 20, 2021 at 20:47
oh, okay, I was just about to try it. I am glad I did not make that an answer — Jeremy Kahan
– Jeremy Kahan, Commented Jul 20, 2021 at 20:48

Jeremy Kahan · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-20 22:26:04Z

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you could try the explicitWait hope this will work for you

WebDriverWait(browser,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//input[@type='text']"))).send_keys("20874",Keys.RETURN)

edited Jul 20, 2021 at 22:26

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answered Jul 20, 2021 at 22:11

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cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-21 06:40:29Z

I would suggest you to do it with explicit wait.

I am giving this answer, cause none of the answer's are really using Explicit waits with ID attribute :

driver.maximize_window()
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get("https://weather.com/weather/today/l/69ef4b6e85ca2de422bea7adf090b06c1516c53e3c4302a01b00ba763d49be65")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "LocationSearch_input"))).send_keys('60007' + Keys.RETURN)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[class^='CurrentConditions--dataWrapperInner']"))).click()

Imports :

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

dir · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-20 20:47:24Z

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From what I can tell, everything is working fine here, however you are pointing your textbox variable to the wrong HTML element.

LocationSearch_input is a hidden label that isn't directly attached to the searchbox. I would try pointing it to

SearchInput--SearchInput--M7lKl SearchInput--enableSearchIcon--1Ugsx, one of the parent elements.

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MistaRen476 Over a year ago

The .click(), and .send_keys() methods still aren't recognized, though, which was the problem.

dir Over a year ago

Please elaborate on "aren't recognised", are you getting an error in your output? Or is it just not clicking.

MistaRen476 Over a year ago

Well, in Visual Studio Code it doesn't show that the methods are there, since they are in white.

dir Over a year ago

Are you importing selenium at the top? If so, don't rely on your code editor to tell you what exists and what doesn't, always use documentation. Don't focus on what your editor shows, what matters is: does the code run? And what happens?

Jeremy Kahan Over a year ago

ElementNotInteractableException: Element <div class="SearchInput--SearchInput--M7lKl SearchInput--enableSearchIcon--1Ugsx"> is not reachable by keyboard

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Jeremy Kahan · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-20 22:17:46Z

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At least testing in firefox, it's a timing thing. The click works. The error of element not interactable (not reachable by keyboard) comes off of the send_keys line. If we wait after the click(), the element becomes reachable by keyboard.

The following could probably be refined (really don't like sleep, but sometimes it works), but works for me:

url = "https://weather.com/weather/today/l/69ef4b6e85ca2de422bea7adf090b06c1516c53e3c4302a01b00ba763d49be65"
browser.get(url)
browser.find_element_by_id('LocationSearch_input').click()
time.sleep(5)
browser.find_element_by_id('LocationSearch_input').send_keys('Boston')

At that point you need to click on whichever of the 10 options is what you really want.

edited Jul 20, 2021 at 22:17

answered Jul 20, 2021 at 21:51

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