Unable to find element with selenium in python

Question

the title says it all, I can't find an element with selenium in python.

This is my code:

    import time
    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
    from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
    from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
    
    s = Service("C:\Program Files (x86)\Chromedriver.exe")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
    
    driver.get("https://soundcloud.com/signin")
    driver.implicitly_wait(10)
    
    cookies = driver.find_element(By.ID, "onetrust-accept-btn-handler")
    if cookies.is_displayed():
        cookies.click()
        ...
    
    time.sleep(5)
    
    signup = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "Your email address or profile URL")
    signup.send_keys("test")

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cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-06 12:29:29Z

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You are facing that exception

Unable to find element

cause the desired element is in iframe. So first switch to iframe and then interact with the desired web elements. Also name is email not Your email address or profile URL

Code :

time.sleep(5)
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//iframe[contains(@src,'https://secure.soundcloud.com/web-auth')]"))
time.sleep(5)
signup = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "email")
signup.send_keys("test")

Also if this works, try to remove time.sleep(5) and use WebDriverWait instead

answered Sep 6, 2021 at 12:29

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cruisepandey Over a year ago

Furthur I test this with time.sleep(1) not 5, and it worked great.

pmadhu · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-06 12:48:19Z

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As already explained, the element signup is in an iframe. You can also use indexing to switch to iframe.

driver.implicitly_wait(10)
driver.get("https://soundcloud.com/signin")
driver.find_element_by_id("onetrust-accept-btn-handler").click()
driver.switch_to.frame(0) # Required singup element is in the 1st iframe.
driver.find_element_by_id("sign_in_up_email").send_keys("Sample Text")

answered Sep 6, 2021 at 12:48

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cruisepandey Over a year ago

Index switching is not recommend in automation, cause the moment they have a new iframe, index won't work. having said that it is last resort.

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