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Selenium python return html with __VIEWSTATE.
I'm trying to open a page with selenium and perform the submit. However, the imput id has another name.
Is this a limitation of selenium or something on the page?
This is the page.
http://www8.receita.fazenda.gov.br/SimplesNacional/aplicacoes.aspx?id=21
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)
driver.get("http://www8.receita.fazenda.gov.br/SimplesNacional/aplicacoes.aspx?id=22")
#driver.find_element_by_id("Cnpj").send_keys("99999999999")
#inputElement.send_keys('99999999999')
print(driver.page_source)
driver.quit()

The input element you are after is inside an iframe.You need to switch iframe first to access the input element.
Induce WebDriverWait() and wait for frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it()
Induce WebDriverWait() and wait for element_to_be_clickable()
Code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver=webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www8.receita.fazenda.gov.br/SimplesNacional/aplicacoes.aspx?id=21")
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.ID,"frame")))
WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID,'Cnpj'))).send_keys("99999999999")
Browser snapshot

Can't locate a button using selenium to press on it

I've created a script in python using selenium to click on a like button available in a webpage. I've used xpath in order to locate that button and I think I've used it correctly. However, the script doesn't seem to find that button and as a results it throws TimeoutException error pointing at the very line containing the xpath.
As it is not possible to hit that like button without logging in, I expect the script to get the relevant html connected to that button so that I understand I could locate it correctly.
I've tried with:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
link = "https://www.instagram.com/p/CBi_eIuAwbG/"
with webdriver.Chrome() as driver:
wait = WebDriverWait(driver,10)
driver.get(link)
item = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//button[./svg[#aria-label='Like']]")))
print(item.get_attribute("innerHTML"))
How can I locate that like button visible as heart symbol using selenium?

To click on Like Button induce WebDriverWait() and wait for visibility_of_element_located() and below xpath.
Then scroll the element into view and click.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/p/CBi_eIuAwbG/")
element=WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//button[.//*[name()='svg' and #aria-label='Like']]")))
element.location_once_scrolled_into_view
element.click()

You can do it like this
likeSVG = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'svg[aria-label="Like"]')
likeBtn = likeSVG.find_element(By.XPATH, './..')
likeBtn.click()
likeBtn is equal to the parent of the likeSVG div as you can use XPATH similar to file navigation commands in a CLI.

Try using the .find_element_by_xpath(xPath) method (Uses full xpath):
likeXPATH = "/html/body/div[1]/section/main/div/div[1]/article/div[2]/section[1]/span[1]/button"
likeElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath(likeXPATH)
likeElement.click()

Python 2.7 Selenium No Such Element on Website

I'm trying to do some webscraping from a betting website:
As part of the process, I have to click on the different buttons under the "Favourites" section on the left side to select different competitions.
Let's take the ENG Premier League button as example. I identified the button as:
(source: 666kb.com)
The XPath is: //*[#id="SportMenuF"]/div[3] and the ID is 91.
My code for clicking on the button is as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
chrome_path = "C:\Python27\Scripts\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)
driver.get("URL Removed")
content = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="SportMenuF"]/div[3]')
content.click()
Unfortunately, I always get this error message when I run the script:
"no such element: Unable to locate element:
{"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[#id="SportMenuF"]/div[3]"}"
I have tried different identifiers such as CCS Selector, ID and, as shown in the example above, the Xpath. I tried using waits and explicit conditions, too. None of this has worked.
I also attempted scraping some values from the website without any success:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
chrome_path = "C:\Python27\Scripts\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)
driver.get("URL removed")
content = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('price-val')
for entry in content:
print entry.text
Same problem, nothing shows up.
The website embeddes an iframe from a different website. Could this be the cause of my problems? I tried scraping directly from the iframe URL, too, which didn't work, either.
I would appreciate any suggestions.

Sometimes elements are either hiding behind an iframe, or they haven't loaded yet
For the iframe check, try:
driver.switch_to.frame(0)
For the wait check, try:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '-put the x-path here-')))

why is this code showing NoSuchElementException error? I checked Chrome DOM my XPATH able to find the destinated tag

why is this code showing NoSuchElementException error? I checked Chrome DOM my XPATH able to find the destinated tag.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
class Firefox():
def test(self):
base_url='https://oakliquorcabinet.com/'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\Vicky\Downloads\chromedriver')
driver.get(base_url)
search=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//div[#class="box-footer"]/button[2]')
search.click()
ff=Firefox()
ff.test()

Selenium by default waits for the DOM to load and tries to find the element. But, the confirmation pop up becomes visible after some time the main page is loaded.
Use explicit wait to fix this issue.
add these imports:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions
change line in script:
search = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//div[#class="box-footer"]/button[2]')))

Selenium can't find element, but element is on the https://login.aliexpress.com/ webpage

On the website the selenium script cannot find the login and password fields. I tried to search by xpath, css selector, name and class name. But nothing worked.
from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://login.aliexpress.com/")
driver.find_element_by_id("fm-login-id").send_keys("test_id")
driver.find_element_by_id("fm-login-password").clear()
driver.find_element_by_id("fm-login-password").send_keys("test_pass")
driver.find_element_by_id("fm-login-submit").click()`
I tried to do this with the help of Selenium IDE, and everything worked in the GUI. But after I exported the code to python and ran it, the program gave an error that it could not find the element.

The login form is inside of a frame, you need to switch to it first.
from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://login.aliexpress.com/")
frame = driver.find_element_by_id("alibaba-login-box")
driver.switch_to.frame(frame)
driver.find_element_by_id("fm-login-id").send_keys("test_id")
driver.find_element_by_id("fm-login-password").clear()
driver.find_element_by_id("fm-login-password").send_keys("test_pass")
driver.find_element_by_id("fm-login-submit").click()

However as the the desired elements are within an <iframe> so you have to:
Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.
Induce WebDriverWait for the desired elements to be clickable.
You can use the following solution:
Using CSS_SELECTOR:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get("https://login.aliexpress.com/")
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe#alibaba-login-box[src^='https://passport.aliexpress.com/mini_login.htm?']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.fm-text#fm-login-id"))).send_keys("test_id")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input.fm-text#fm-login-password").send_keys("test_pass")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input.fm-button#fm-login-submit").click()
Interim Broswer Snapshot:
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
Reference
You can find a relevant discussion in
Ways to deal with #document under iframe