NoSuchFrameException(frame_reference) in selenium

Question

Here is the exception that I am getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/navendu/lead-generator/python_scripts/tempCodeRunnerFile.py", line 12, in <module>
    driver.switch_to_frame("http://103.251.43.139/~ksebuser/orumabills/upload/billview/")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 789, in switch_to_frame
    self._switch_to.frame(frame_reference)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/switch_to.py", line 87, in frame
    raise NoSuchFrameException(frame_reference)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException: Message: http://103.251.43.139/~ksebuser/orumabills/upload/billview/

Here is the python code that I am running:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
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://www.kseb.in/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=813&lang=en")
driver.maximize_window()
driver.implicitly_wait(7)
driver.switch_to_frame("http://103.251.43.139/~ksebuser/orumabills/upload/billview/")

ele = driver.find_element_by_id('t_consumer-no_5')
ele.send_keys("some text")

Here is the link to the web page. I am trying to automate form filling in that website http://www.kseb.in/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=813&lang=en

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-12T07:43:28.267

This error message...

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException: Message: http://103.251.43.139/~ksebuser/orumabills/upload/billview/

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to locate the desired <iframe> element.

Seems you were pretty close. The <iframe> have the src attribute set as http://103.251.43.139/~ksebuser/orumabills/upload/billview/. So mentioning the src attribute would have solved your issue.

However, as the the desired element is within an <iframe> so to send a character sequence within the element you have to:

Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.
Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable.

You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using XPATH with src attribute:

driver.get("http://www.kseb.in/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=813&lang=en")
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[contains(@src, 'ksebuser/orumabills/upload/billview/')]")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='userInputText']"))).send_keys("Navendu_Pottekkat")

Using CSS_SELECTOR with src attribute:

driver.get("http://www.kseb.in/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=813&lang=en")
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[src$='ksebuser/orumabills/upload/billview/']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.userInputText"))).send_keys("Navendu_Pottekkat")

Browser Snapshot:

Consumer

Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

Ways to deal with #document under iframe

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '20 at 06:14

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Try using the name or id attribute to switch. May be try driver.switch_to_frame("iframe") or driver.switch_to_frame("blockrandom")

answered Feb 12 '20 at 06:14

demouser123

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 12 '20 at 06:16

The frame is not URL.

You can right click on the page to check if there has frame. It will show "View Frame Source".

And find the id/name/index of frame.

driver.switch_to_frame("blockrandom") # frame id

Reference: https://www.techbeamers.com/switch-between-iframes-selenium-python/

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 12 '20 at 06:22

You are trying to switch by the src attribute, however switch_to_frame receive idor name attributes or WebElement as parameter. You should also replace the sleep() with WebDriverWait

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as ec

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(ec.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it('blockrandom'))

NoSuchFrameException(frame_reference) in selenium

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