Selenium in python: TimeoutException

Question

I am trying to login into twitter with selenium but It keeps giving me errors. Any help would be appreciated.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

browser = webdriver.Chrome()


username = "elonmusk"
url = "https://twitter.com/" + username + "/followers?lang=en"
browser.get(url)

# print(url)
# browser.implicitly_wait(10) #seconds
# elem = WebDriverWait(browser,4).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH("//input[@name='session[username_or_email]']")))).send_keys("Michael")
# browser.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='session[username_or_email]']").send_keys("Michael")

wait = WebDriverWait(browser, 2)

wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//input[@name='session[username_or_email]']"))).send_keys("person")

When I'm not logged into Twitter, the page I end up with doesn't seem to have the XPATH element that you are looking for. I do see that part in the html. — Niels Henkens, Oct 28 '18 at 21:36
My error message is: selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: — michael smith, Oct 28 '18 at 22:52
I could not find the xpath [//input[@name='session[username_or_email]']] even after logging into twitter with the above [link - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/followers?lang=en] and even under my followers page. — Dhamo, Oct 29 '18 at 03:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '18 at 12:48

As I stated above, the XPATH mentioned isn't correct. If you change the last line of your code to the one below, it will work.

wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,'//*[@id="page-container"]/div/div[1]/form/fieldset/div[1]/input'))).send_keys("person")

See the question below for more info on how to get the correct XPATH in Chrome, or use FireBug/FirePath in Firefox.
Is there a way to get the xpath in google chrome?

Selenium in python: TimeoutException

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