can't find an input, tried by class, by xpath and by css selector

Question

So I tried to find this input by many ways and it simple can't be found

<div class="col-sm-8 col-lg-10 fb-field-container " style="min-height:26px">
    <div class="fb-inline-field-container form-line" style="display: inherit;vertical-align:top;">
        <input class="form-control tfield" widget="tentry" type="text" required="" aria-required="true" name="nome" value="" id="tentry_1800501884">
        ::after
    </div>
</div>

Here some of what I tried:

By class: "col-sm-8 col-lg-10 fb-field-container"

By class: "fb-inline-field-container form-line"

By class: "form-control tfield"

By ID: "tentry_1381418948"

By css selector: "Input[class*='form-control tfield'" and with the 2 other classes

By xpath: "'//div[contains(@class, "form-control tfield")]'" and with the 2 other classes

Most of the errors i got are: 'str' object is not callable

Does anyone have an idea what i can do?

Here is my code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from pytube import YouTube
from pytube import Channel
import time
import pyautogui

def subir_videos(login, senha):
    options = Options()
    options.add_argument("start-maximized")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()), options=options)
    driver.get('http://simplesprefeitura.pompeu.mg.gov.br/index.php?class=WelcomeView')
    time.sleep(1)
    botao_login = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, ("//span[.='Login']"))
    botao_login.click()
    time.sleep(1)
    botao_login_2 = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, ("//span[.='Login']"))
    botao_login_2[1].click()
    time.sleep(1)
    campo_usuario = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, ('//div[contains(@class, "fb-inline-field-container form-line")]'))
    # campo_usuario = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, ('//div[contains(@class, "col-sm-12 display-flex fb-field-container")]'))
    campo_usuario.click()
    time.sleep(1)
    pyautogui.write(login)
    time.sleep(1)
    pyautogui.hotkey('tab')
    time.sleep(1)
    pyautogui.write(senha)
    time.sleep(1)
    pyautogui.hotkey('enter')
    time.sleep(3)

    botao_pesquisar = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "js-search")
    botao_pesquisar.click()
    time.sleep(1)
    pyautogui.write('videostvlist')
    time.sleep(1)
    pyautogui.hotkey('enter')
    time.sleep(1)

    botao_novo = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[contains(text(), 'Novo')]")
    botao_novo.click()
    time.sleep(1)

And here is where im getting trouble

    campo_nome = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR("Input[class*='fb-inline-field-container form-line'"))
    campo_nome.click()
    time.sleep(1)

UPDATE: i found that if i hit tab 37 times i get there so i'm using it like this while it works

Please post the code that shows the request. We can't check the source site and DOM without it. — Captain Caveman, Apr 04 '22 at 23:04

KunduK · Answer 1 · 2022-04-04T23:42:20.500

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To identify the input element use either following css selector or xpath

css selector:

input.form-control.tfield[name='nome'][id^='tentry_']

or

input.form-control.tfield[id^='tentry_']

xpath:

//input[@class='form-control tfield'][@name='nome'][starts-with(@id, 'tentry_')]

or

 //input[@class='form-control tfield'][starts-with(@id, 'tentry_')]

Ideally your code will be

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.form-control.tfield[name='nome'][id^='tentry_']")

Or

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@class='form-control tfield'][@name='nome'][starts-with(@id, 'tentry_')]")

UPDATE:

It seems its overlapping the element to click on that element induce javascripts executor.

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.form-control.tfield[name='nome'][id^='tentry_']"))

edited Apr 04 '22 at 23:42

answered Apr 04 '22 at 23:30

KunduK

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Thank you, I tried these codes and got this error: element click intercepted: Element is not clickable at point (885, 269). Other element would receive the click:
...
– Raphael Campos Apr 04 '22 at 23:38
@RaphaelCampos : Checkout my updated answer and let me know how that goes. – KunduK Apr 04 '22 at 23:43
It didn't crash this time, but it didn't click either – Raphael Campos Apr 04 '22 at 23:49
@RaphaelCampos : do we need to create an account to have a look on the element. If you could provide dummy cred and steps to reproduce will be great. – KunduK Apr 04 '22 at 23:53
Ill see what i can do and let you know, thank you – Raphael Campos Apr 04 '22 at 23:57

undetected Selenium · Answer 2 · 2022-04-05T11:05:54.590

To identify the element you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using css_selector:

element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.form-control.tfield[id^='tentry'][widget='tentry'][name='nome']")

Using xpath:

element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@class='form-control tfield' and starts-with(@id, 'tentry')][@widget='tentry' and @name='nome']")

To click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.form-control.tfield[id^='tentry'][widget='tentry'][name='nome']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='form-control tfield' and starts-with(@id, 'tentry')][@widget='tentry' and @name='nome']"))).click()

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

Update

As an alternative you can also use execute_script() method as follows:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

my_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.form-control.tfield[id^='tentry'][widget='tentry'][name='nome']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", my_element)

Using XPATH:

my_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='form-control tfield' and starts-with(@id, 'tentry')][@widget='tentry' and @name='nome']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", my_element)

got this message: invalid selector: An invalid or illegal selector was specified — Raphael Campos, Apr 05 '22 at 00:21
Now im getting this message: element click intercepted: Element is not clickable at point (885, 269). Other element would receive the click:
... — Raphael Campos, Apr 05 '22 at 00:34
@RaphaelCampos Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status. — undetected Selenium, Apr 05 '22 at 11:06
I tried here, it didn't give any error message, but it didn't click either — Raphael Campos, Apr 06 '22 at 14:33

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '22 at 23:36

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Double check that is not inside a shadow dom or iframe, you may need to switch to it

answered Apr 04 '22 at 23:36

dasfacc

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Ill need to study what this is first. Ill study and come back with and answer, thank you – Raphael Campos Apr 04 '22 at 23:51
Sorry I may have given too short an explanation. Some sites have other sites embedded in them using an element. In other cases websites can attach a shadow element to their site https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/Using_shadow_DOM In both cases the selenium webdriver won't find an element that is inside one of this. I won't go deeper into this as likely this is not your case. If you try all suggestions and you still can't select the input node I'd start considering these cases. – dasfacc Apr 05 '22 at 09:34

can't find an input, tried by class, by xpath and by css selector

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