Python Selenium: How to input some text in search form if its iFrame?

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Python Selenium: How to input some text in search form if its iFrame? I tried some methods, but it did not work.

search_input = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.search-text')
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(search_input).send_keys('indicator').perform()

and

search_input = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.search-text')
search_input = driver.send_keys('indicator')

switch to frame

frame = waitLoading('/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/iframe');
driver.switch_to.frame(frame)

and I use

def waitLoading(LOADING_ELEMENT_XPATH):
    WebDriverWait(driver, 5000).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.blockOverlay')))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 5000).until(EC.staleness_of(driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.blockOverlay')))
    return driver.find_element_by_xpath(LOADING_ELEMENT_XPATH)

following error is

      File "test_search.py", line 53, in <module>
    search_input = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div/form/div[1]/input')
  File "/Users/annuitcoeptis/Documents/work/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 394, in find_element_by_xpath
    return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
  File "/Users/annuitcoeptis/Documents/work/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 978, in find_element
    'value': value})['value']
  File "/Users/annuitcoeptis/Documents/work/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/Users/annuitcoeptis/Documents/work/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div/form/div[1]/input"}

Show us how did you switch to iframe ? Your HTML code or link to website would be useful. — cruisepandey, Oct 02 '18 at 12:51
1. Do you know that `WebDriverWait(driver, 5000)` means *wait for about 1,5 hours*? 2. If you want to wait until element no more present in DOM, use `WebDriverWait(driver, 5000).until_not(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.blockOverlay')))` instead of `WebDriverWait(driver, 5000).until(EC.staleness_of(driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.blockOverlay')))` — Andersson, Oct 02 '18 at 13:07
*"...but it did not work..."*. Can you share little more details/ — Andersson, Oct 02 '18 at 13:09
I understood. But it immediately works, when xpath located. But I edited my code with your method. Its more laconically :) — RaRaRa, Oct 02 '18 at 13:10
Try to wait `WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.search-text'))).send_keys('indicator')` or check whether there is another iframe (it's OK situation if one iframe contain another iframe - you should switch to all embeded frames one by one) — Andersson, Oct 02 '18 at 13:54
use @ with the person name , so that they will get notified. — cruisepandey, Oct 02 '18 at 14:08
Post the relevant HTML of the IFRAME and desired elements inside. My guess is that you are switching into the wrong IFRAME, not waiting for the elements to appear, or have a bad locator for the element. — JeffC, Oct 02 '18 at 17:28

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 02 '18 at 12:13

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**First you need to switch your driver on iframe**
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_tag_name("iframe"))


## Insert text via xpath ##
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/input")
elem.send_keys("Text Enter")

answered Oct 02 '18 at 12:13

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I alredy did it – RaRaRa Oct 02 '18 at 12:20

Python Selenium: How to input some text in search form if its iFrame?

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