Selenium WebDriverWait keeps throwing a TimeoutException

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I am using Selenium to login to as follows:

driver.switch_to.default_content()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.NAME,'email'))).send_keys("myemail@gmail.com")

but I keep getting an error:

TimeoutException: Message:

I have also tried:

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@id='email']"))).send_keys("myemail@gmail.com")

Here is the source HTML code I am accessing:

<div id="signup-form">
    <div class="logo"></div>
    <h1 data-i18n="signin">Sign in</h1>
    <div class="panels-wrapper">
        <div class="panels">
            <div class="panel step-1">
                <input name="email" type="text" id="email" required="" maxlength="100">
                <label for="email" data-i18n="email">Email</label>

Appreciate any guidance to fix this.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 17 '20 at 02:54

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Email is not a frame. The condition you are using is used for frame( iframe tag ) but here you are dealing with input tag. So I suggest you to check either the visibility of that element or presence of that element based on your requirement.

answered Jun 17 '20 at 02:54

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thanks. I tried the following and i still get a "timeout exception message" error: WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//div[@id='email']"))).send_keys("mymail@gmail.com") – Alexis Jun 17 '20 at 13:39

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17T15:16:32.223

There are a couple of things you need to take care.

In case the element is within a frame / iframe, without the relevant HTML it would be tough to construct a canonical answer. However, as per the HTML you have shared, I don't see the presence of any <frame> / <iframe>.

Generally, to send a character sequence within the element you need to use WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#email[name='email']"))).send_keys("myemail@gmail.com")

XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='email' and @name='email']"))).send_keys("myemail@gmail.com")

You can find a relevant discussion in How to click on a element through Selenium Python

In case the element is within a 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 CSS_SELECTOR:

driver.get('site_url')
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe_cssSelector")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#email[name='email']"))).send_keys("myemail@gmail.com")

Using XPATH:

driver.get('site_url')
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"iframe_xpath")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='email' and @name='email']"))).send_keys("myemail@gmail.com")

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
```
You can find a relevant discussion in Unable to type within username field within ProtonMail signup page using Selenium and Python

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You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

Thanks! The CSS_SELECTOR worked. The login was in a pop-up so I had to add this too: driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0]) — Alexis, Jun 18 '20 at 12:49

Selenium WebDriverWait keeps throwing a TimeoutException

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