selenium webdriver can not find interactive web elements

Question

i am trying to automatically fill this form to download some documents from this mexican government webpage for my family (they have to download them at least monthly) using selenium webdriver in python but it yields this error in all form elements:

NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":
  (Session info: chrome=104.0.5112.81)
Stacktrace:
Backtrace:
    Ordinal0 [0x00F85FD3+2187219]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F1E6D1+1763025]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E33E78+802424]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E61C10+990224]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E61EAB+990891]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E8EC92+1174674]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E7CBD4+1100756]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E8CFC2+1167298]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E7C9A6+1100198]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E56F80+946048]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E57E76+949878]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x012290C2+2721218]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x0121AAF0+2662384]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x0101137A+526458]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x01010416+522518]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F24EAB+1789611]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F297A8+1808296]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F29895+1808533]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F326C1+1844929]
    BaseThreadInitThunk [0x75806739+25]
    RtlGetFullPathName_UEx [0x772F8FEF+1215]
    RtlGetFullPathName_UEx [0x772F8FBD+1165]

i tried using ID, XPATH, full XPATH and CSS selector but none of them work. I also tried to check each element by themselves in a separate script and the result is the same. this is my code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import re
import datetime
import time
today=today=datetime.date.today()
driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Users\HP\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe")
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
for i in range(3):
    try:
        driver.get("http://rh.imss.gob.mx/tarjetonjubilados/(S(zh0qyvr1lwrxezeum4tjlypg))/default.aspx")
        break
    except:
        pass
#delchoice=driver.find_element(By.ID,"ddlDelegacion")
#delchoice.click()
delegacion=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"/html/body/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[3]/select/option[37]")
delegacion.elect_by_index(integer redacted)
user=driver.find_element(By.ID,"txtUsuario")
user.send_keys(string redacted)
password=driver.find_element(By.ID,"txtContraseña")
password.send_keys(string redacted)
nextpage=driver.find_element(By.ID,"btnIngresar")
time.sleep(30)
for i in range(3):
    try:
        filebutton=driver.find_element(By.ID,"rdoArchivo")
        filebutton.click()
        break
    except:
        driver.navigate().refresh()
        time.sleep(30)
tarjetonbutton=driver.find_element(By.ID,"rdoTarjeton")
tarjetonbutton.click()
tarjetonchoicebutton=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"/html/body/table/tbody/tr[6]/td/div/div[3]/div[3]/div/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[3]")
tarjetonchoicebutton.click()
tarjetondate=tarjetonchoicebutton.text
tarjetonredate=re.search(r"(?<=\d{2}\/)\d{2}(?=\/\d{4}\s\-)",tarjetondate)
tarjetonmonth=tarjetonredate.group
print(tarjetonmonth)
thismonth=str(today.month)
print(tarjetonmonth)
if thismonth==tarjetonmonth:
    downloadbutton=driver.find_element(By.ID,"btnAceptar")
    downloadbutton.click
driver.quit()

Another curious issue is that it do work with other page elements, just not the form ones

at line 21 it throws that error code but it does the same in all the other lines with `find_element` too — Omar Morales Rivera, Aug 09 '22 at 20:03
@undetectedSelenium this one `delegacion=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"/html/body/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[3]/select/option[37]")` but again, all the `find_element` throw the same error — Omar Morales Rivera, Aug 10 '22 at 02:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '22 at 18:13

The issue here is that all the form is inside an iframe which means you need to actually switch to it before searching for the elements (actually the same will be needed for the next page). This approach by @undetected Selenium works pretty well:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@id='ifrPaginaSecundaria']")))
Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//select[@id='ddlDelegacion']")))).select_by_index(INTEGER EXPUNGED)

although it requires 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
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

with all of that the full code ends up like this:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import re
import datetime
import time
today=today=datetime.date.today()
driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Users\HP\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe")
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
for i in range(3):
    try:
        driver.get("http://rh.imss.gob.mx/tarjetonjubilados/(S(zh0qyvr1lwrxezeum4tjlypg))/default.aspx")
        break
    except:
        driver.navigate().refresh()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@id='ifrPaginaSecundaria']")))
Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//select[@id='ddlDelegacion']")))).select_by_index(INTEGER EXPUNGED)
user=driver.find_element(By.ID,"txtUsuario")
user.send_keys(STRING EXPUNGED)
password=driver.find_element(By.ID,"txtContraseña")
password.send_keys(STRING EXPUNGED)
nextpage=driver.find_element(By.ID,"btnIngresar")
nextpage.click()
time.sleep(10)
for i in range(3):
    try:
        driver.switch_to.default_content()
        WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@id='ifrPaginaSecundaria']")))
        filebutton=driver.find_element(By.ID,"rdoArchivo")
        filebutton.click()
        break
    except:
        driver.navigate().refresh()
        time.sleep(5)
tarjetonbutton=driver.find_element(By.ID,"rdoTarjeton")
tarjetonbutton.click()
tarjetonchoicebutton=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"/html/body/table/tbody/tr[6]/td/div/div[3]/div[3]/div/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[3]")
tarjetonchoicebutton.click()
tarjetondate=tarjetonchoicebutton.text
tarjetonredate=re.search(r"(?<=\d{2}\/)\d{2}(?=\/\d{4}\s\-)",tarjetondate)
tarjetonmonth=int(tarjetonredate.group())
thismonth=int(today.month)
if thismonth==tarjetonmonth:
    print("download cleared")
    downloadbutton=driver.find_element(By.ID,"btnAceptar")
    downloadbutton.click()

selenium webdriver can not find interactive web elements

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