How to click a button inside a frame using python, selenium?

Question

I am trying to click on the "Edit" button in the Facebook "Change password" security settings through Python.

 # logs in to facebook
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/webdriver')

    # Navigate to Facebook
    browser.get("http://www.facebook.com")

    browser.maximize_window()

    # Search & Enter the Email or Phone field & Enter Password
    username = browser.find_element_by_id("email")
    username.send_keys("email@gmail.com")
    password = browser.find_element_by_id('pass')
    password.send_keys('password')
    submit = browser.find_element_by_name('login')
    submit.click()
    print("logged in")
    time.sleep(5)

    # navigates to security
    browser.get("http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=security")
    time.sleep(3)

I'm completely new at this, but this code so far runs, and logs into the facebook page, and goes to the security settings. I can't figure out how to click the button, however. Using Inspect, I wasn't able to find an ID and after a lot of googling, I think it may be an issue concerning Frames? Any advice would be helpful!

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '21 at 00:00

The element is within an <iframe> so 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:

browser.get("http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=security")
WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[starts-with(@src, 'https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=security')]")))
WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//td[.//span[text()='Change password']]//following-sibling::td[1]/button"))).click()

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

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