Selenium WebDriver not working fine on Amazon site

Question

I am trying to write a Selenium test against Amazon site. I want to get "Sign in" element so that I can click on it.

url: www.amazon.es

Here is my Selenium Code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\geckodriver-v0.18.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://www.amazon.es");

try
{           
    driver.findElement(By.id("nav-link-accountList")).click();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    System.out.println("Not Found");
}

Sometimes the code works correctly but sometimes it does not find the ID "nav-link-yourAccount". What is the problem? and how can I solve it?

try to use some implicitWait `driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);` let me know if it works — NarendraR, Aug 18 '17 at 11:32
You can also use Expected Conditions make the test wait for the button to become available https://stackoverflow.com/a/36596333/1501613 — cYrixmorten, Aug 18 '17 at 11:36
I have added driver.manage (). Timeouts (). ImplicitlyWait (15, TimeUnit.SECONDS); As you indicated, but still not working. — mvillegas, Aug 18 '17 at 11:40
what kind of Expected Conditions? I am starting with selenium webdriver and java — mvillegas, Aug 18 '17 at 11:46
@Tuks Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: #nav\-link\-yourAccount — mvillegas, Aug 18 '17 at 11:48
@mvillegas can you click on this element `driver.findElement(By.id("nav-link-accountList")).click();` I'm not seeing the id on page what you have mentioned — NarendraR, Aug 18 '17 at 11:55
@Tuks Ok sorry, copy the code wrong. The correct id is that you indicates me but sometimes don't work fine Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: #nav\-link\-accountList — mvillegas, Aug 18 '17 at 12:01
Run it in debug mode several times until you get the error then look at the page and see why it's failing. — JeffC, Aug 18 '17 at 13:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 18 '17 at 12:42

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The element which you are trying to click with id as nav-link-yourAccount is not clickable. To proceed further you need to click either the link with text Hola. Identifícate or the link with text Mi cuenta using one of the following xpaths:

//a[@id='nav-link-yourAccount']/span[text()='Hola. Identifícate']

or

//a[@id="nav-link-yourAccount"]/span[contains(text(),'Mi cuenta')]

edited Aug 18 '17 at 12:42

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I wrote: try { driver.findElement(By.linkText("//a[@id=\"nav-link-yourAccount\"]/span[contains(text(),'Mi cuenta')]")).click(); }catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.out.println("Not Found"); } – mvillegas Aug 18 '17 at 13:39
and KO again with this error INFORMACIÓN: Detected dialect: W3C org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: //a[@id="nav-link-yourAccount"]/span[contains(text(),'Mi cuenta')] For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown' – mvillegas Aug 18 '17 at 13:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '17 at 12:22

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Provide few seconds of wait, before click to this webelement so your driver may able to find the webelement.

For wait i am using Explicit wait method.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,10);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(driver.findElement(By.id("nav-link-accountList"))));

driver.findElement(By.id("nav-link-accountList")).click();

answered Aug 18 '17 at 12:22

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Please Mark this answer as `Accepted`, if it's work for you. – Jainish Kapadia Sep 13 '17 at 07:50

iamsankalp89 · Answer 3 · 2017-08-18T13:39:33.870

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Apply wait until element is appeared, so that it avoids NoSuchElementException and code is working without any error.

Below code is working fine:

driver.get("https://www.amazon.es");
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
WebElement accontButton=driver.findElement(By.id("nav-link-accountList"));
WebDriverWait waitforelement=new WebDriverWait(driver,20);
waitforelement.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(accontButton));
try{           
accontButton.click();
}

catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("Not Found");
}

edited Aug 18 '17 at 13:39

answered Aug 18 '17 at 12:50

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I pasted your code and I get this error: Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: #nav\-link\-accountList For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html – mvillegas Aug 18 '17 at 13:26
on which browser you got error, it is worked fine on 2.53 jars – iamsankalp89 Aug 18 '17 at 13:27
try this code it is fine, I put some wait after loading website. – iamsankalp89 Aug 18 '17 at 13:40
The `try` is around the wrong line. It should be around the wait line. Also, 2.53 is really old... you should update to the newest version. – JeffC Aug 18 '17 at 13:45
it is not necessary jeff it is working fine, there is no reason for downvote anyways, no issues. one can use it on latest jars also – iamsankalp89 Aug 18 '17 at 13:47
my browser is firefox – mvillegas Aug 18 '17 at 13:51
OK I will check again – iamsankalp89 Aug 18 '17 at 14:04
the same problem...sometimes well but sometines KO. I don´t know what is happend? and what is the diferent?? – mvillegas Aug 18 '17 at 14:53
Might be wait time should be vary, i added implicit wait – iamsankalp89 Aug 18 '17 at 15:15

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 18 '17 at 12:58

Instead using implicit wait try using explicit wait for the login element.

I've tried with explicit wait over 50 click and it did works.

Here is code you can use.

public class dump {
    public static void main(String a[]){
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\geckodriver-v0.18.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 15);
        for(int i=0; i<=50; i++){
            driver.get("https://www.amazon.es");
            try{    
                wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//*[@id='nav-link-accountList']")));  
                driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='nav-link-accountList']")).click();
                System.out.println("clicked\t"+i);
            }catch (Exception e){
                e.printStackTrace();
                System.out.println("Not Found");
            }
        }

    }
}

Here is the proof of run:

All the best!!

I pasted your code and it don't work fine. this error :INFORMACIÓN: Detected dialect: W3C org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException: Expected condition failed: waiting for element to be clickable: By.xpath: //*[@id='nav-link-accountList'] (tried for 15 second(s) with 500 MILLISECONDS interval) — mvillegas, Aug 18 '17 at 13:45
`wait.until()` returns the element waited for so you can do `wait.until(...).click()` and save some code along with not having to scrape the page twice. — JeffC, Aug 18 '17 at 13:47

Justin Sp · Answer 5 · 2017-08-18T12:15:28.560

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Have you tried to find elements by xpath?

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\geckodriver-v0.18.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://www.amazon.es");

try
{           
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='nav-link-accountList']")).click();

}catch (Exception e)
 {
        System.out.println("Not Found");

    }

edited Aug 18 '17 at 12:15

answered Aug 18 '17 at 12:09

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I have tried with driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='nav-link-accountList']")).click(); and it does not always work well. Sometimes OK and sometimes KO Unable to locate element: .//*[@id='nav-link-accountList'] – mvillegas Aug 18 '17 at 12:18
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if id is there then why xpath ? any specific reason – NarendraR Aug 18 '17 at 12:21

Selenium WebDriver not working fine on Amazon site

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