I am just making a selenium bot as a fun project that is supposed to play typeracer for me, and I am having a bit of trouble getting it to wait for the countdown to be done before it tries to start typing. The best way that I have found to do this is to just wait for the text input field to be editable instead of waiting for the countdown popup to be gone, but as I said before, I can't get it to wait unless I use a time.sleep() function. This wouldn't work well because of the fact that we could have to wait for anywhere from 5ish-12ish seconds before the bot can start so it could wait too long or not long enough. I have tried the solutions from many other similar questions such as this one, but so far nothing has worked completely. I have already received help with a previous error that was arising from this code here but since this is a different error I have created a new question to deal with it.
Here is my code at the moment:
#!/usr/bin/env/python3
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
class TRBot:
def __init__(self, username, passwd):
self.username = username
self.driver = webdriver.Safari()
self.driver.get("https://play.typeracer.com") # Open automated safari to typeracer
time.sleep(2)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@title=\"Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+I\"]").click() # Click the "Enter a typing race" button
time.sleep(2)
inputField = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of(self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@contenteditable='plaintext-only']")))
# Find the first word of the passage to type
text = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=\"gwt - uid - 15\"]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/div/div/span[1]").get_attribute("innerHTML")
while text != "":
inputField.send_keys(text) # Type the word
text = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=\"gwt - uid - 15\"]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/div/div/span[1]").get_attribute("innerHTML") # Find the next word
time.sleep(5)
self.driver.quit()
TypeRacerBot = TRBot("TRBot", "R0b0t@")
and here is the error output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/kalebrosborough/Documents/Programming/Python/TypeRacerBot.py", line 45, in <module>
TypeRacerBot = TRBot("TRBot", "R0b0t@")
File "/Users/kalebrosborough/Documents/Programming/Python/TypeRacerBot.py", line 29, in __init__
inputField = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of(self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@contenteditable='plaintext-only']")))
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 394, in find_element_by_xpath
return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 976, in find_element
return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message:
Right now, everything works as expected up to the inputField = WebDriverWait(... line so that's what I'm currently focused on fixing, but if you see anything that won't work further along in the code I am open to suggestions there too.
Thanks in advance!
