AttributeError: 'WebElement' object has no attribute (python) (selenium)

Question

I'm copying email every 10 minutes from https://10minutemail.pl/ and I want to paste it to email_elem element on another web site, using code below:

driver.get("https://10minutemail.pl/")
email2_elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1]").text
time.sleep(2)
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")
time.sleep(2)
email_elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='emailOrPhone']")
email_elem.clear()
email_elem.send_keys(email_elem.email2_elem)

Bu I get error:

AttributeError: 'WebElement' object has no attribute 'email2_elem'

Todor Minakov · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-04 04:01:31Z

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The error is on this line:

email_elem.send_keys(email_elem.email2_elem)

, and it is exactly what it says - you have stored that text inside the (standalone) variable email2_elem, but are referencing it as if it is an attribute of another one, email_elem - which it is not.
Just change it to:

email_elem.send_keys(email2_elem)

, and it will work.

answered Apr 4, 2019 at 4:01

Todor Minakov

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szymond45 Over a year ago

I have 1 more problem when i try to paste it later code worka normaly but nothing appears. But when i copy other text with same method from somewhere else it works. What am i doing wrong?

Todor Minakov Over a year ago

What do you mean by "paste it later" and "copy other text"? Copy and paste are clipboard operations, while your code sample doesn't use it, it just gets a text and stores it in a variable.

szymond45 Over a year ago

I mean. When i try to get this email from 10 minutes mail and use it as shown. It's just doesn't appear

Todor Minakov Over a year ago

Ok, that's a different question, but still - it's either the xpath is not targeting the correct element, or - most likely, it's because you are trying to get the text of an <input> tag. As you, I presume, want to get the value that is where there, using text() is not the way to do it - you need to change that to .getAttribute("value")

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