Find elements etc with selenium

Question

I am on WIN 10 and using Python 3.7. I am trying to login to the below page, but i cannot locate elements:

https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/identifier?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&service=mail&sacu=1&rip=1&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin&hl=en-GB

Below is what i tried:

import requests
from selenium import webdriver


driver = webdriver.Firefox()
url_google = "https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/identifier?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&service=mail&sacu=1&rip=1&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin&hl=en-GB"
driver.get(url_google)

driver.find_element_by_class_name("Xb9hP").send_keys("1234")
driver.find_element_by_link_text ("Email or phone").send_keys("1234")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.Xb9hP").send_keys("1234")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input.email").send_keys("1234")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//Xb9hP[1]")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@method='post']")
driver.find_element_by_id("InputEmail").send_keys("1234")
driver.find_element_by_id("InputPassword").send_keys("1111")

Can you please let me know what i shall use? For me to better understand Selenium, i would appreciate examples of how to send "1234" using each function, eg:

find_element_by_id
find_element_by_name
find_element_by_xpath
find_element_by_link_text
find_element_by_partial_link_text
find_element_by_tag_name
find_element_by_class_name
find_element_by_css_selector

Thanks.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '19 at 01:17

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Avoid using the class name on this field because it seema to be dynamically generated. Please research about Selenium Waits.

answered Aug 19 '19 at 01:17

Jose Sanchez

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '19 at 03:17

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You can find element by id, and my suggest add WebDriverWait to make sure the element have visible. Try the bellow code :

url_google = "https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/identifier?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&service=mail&sacu=1&rip=1&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin&hl=en-GB"
driver.get(url_google)
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'identifierId')))
driver.find_element(By.ID, 'identifierId').send_keys('1234')

answered Aug 19 '19 at 03:17

frianH

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Thanks for your reply - i am getting this error: "NameError: name 'EC' is not defined " – cmarios Aug 19 '19 at 09:32
Sorry, add a line `from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC` – frianH Aug 19 '19 at 09:35
Tell me again, it works or not. – frianH Aug 19 '19 at 09:38
Thanks. Now i am getting this: "NameError: name 'By' is not defined" – cmarios Aug 19 '19 at 09:39
Just add new line `from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By` – frianH Aug 19 '19 at 09:40
Yeah, welcome, glad it worked – frianH Aug 19 '19 at 09:44

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 19 '19 at 06:14

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using LinkText and ID should work in this case.

driver.find_element_by_link_text ("Email or phone").send_keys("1234")
driver.find_element_by_id("InputPassword").send_keys("1111")

Try using explicit waits for each element.

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as ec
# wait for element to appear, then hover it
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
element = wait.until(ec.visibility_of_element_located(By.Id, "InputPassword"))

answered Aug 19 '19 at 06:14

Naveen

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Thanks for your input - i am getting this error: "NameError: name 'EC' is not defined " – cmarios Aug 19 '19 at 09:34
add this import at the start. from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as ec – Naveen Aug 20 '19 at 11:36

Find elements etc with selenium

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