Python selenium is neither not looking for id nor selecting button or giving input

Question

So when I am execute my code the website will be open but the other steps which I described in my code below are not be execute, why? I even tried time.sleep() after the website is loaded in order to execute the remaining code but it is not working.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time


driver = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/User/Desktop/it_projects/python-google-automation/Neuer Ordner/chromedriver')

#open certain website
driver.get('https://www.nike.com/de/?cp=58194921917_search_%7cnike%7c10594878138%7c107792850434%7ce%7cc%7cDE%7cpure%7c452291007809&ds_rl=1252249&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIod-_o8jD-QIVE4XVCh1-FggsEAAYASAAEgJSYfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds')



#go through cookie process
evade_cookie = driver.find_element_by_id('hf_cookie_text_moreInformation') #search for cookie-button (more informations)
evade_cookie.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) #click on button
select_cookie = driver.find_element_by_id('hf_cookie_label_done') #search for done-button
select_cookie.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) #click on done-button 

#search for Sneakers
search = driver.find_element_by_id('VisualSearchInput') #search for input-area
search.send_keys('Nike Dunk Low') #insert input
search.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) #enter or return respectively

Error
/Users/user/Desktop/it_projects/python-google-automation/Neuer Ordner/main.py:6: DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object
  driver = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/user/Desktop/it_projects/python-google-automation/Neuer Ordner/chromedriver')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/user/Desktop/it_projects/python-google-automation/Neuer Ordner/main.py", line 14, in <module>
    evade_cookie = driver.find_element_by_id('hf_cookie_text_moreInformation') #search for cookie-button (more informations)
AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'find_element_by_id'
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Looks like you have not defined a 'wait', so selenium is not waiting for the elements to be loaded. You can read about waits here: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/waits/. — thorndeux, Aug 13 '22 at 10:58
Do you have a particular reason for not accepting all cookies, so you can move on with your other tasks on that websote? — Barry the Platipus, Aug 13 '22 at 12:14

Abhishek · Answer 1 · 2022-08-13T11:10:47.157

It seems that the syntax you are using is incorrect.

Try the below code

#go through cookie process
evade_cookie = driver.find_element('id','hf_cookie_text_moreInformation') #search for cookie-button (more informations)
evade_cookie.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) #click on button
select_cookie = driver.find_element('id','hf_cookie_label_done') #search for done-button
select_cookie.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) #click on done-button

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '22 at 12:33

The following code will properly wait for the elements to be clickable, and execute correctly. The setup is Firefox/geckodriver on Linux, but you can adapt it to your own, just observe the imports, and the part after defining the browser/driver:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options as Firefox_Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import time as t

firefox_options = Firefox_Options()

driverService = Service('chromedriver/geckodriver')

browser = webdriver.Firefox(service=driverService, options=firefox_options)

url = 'https://www.nike.com/de/?cp=58194921917_search_%7cnike%7c10594878138%7c107792850434%7ce%7cc%7cDE%7cpure%7c452291007809&ds_rl=1252249&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIod-_o8jD-QIVE4XVCh1-FggsEAAYASAAEgJSYfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds'

browser.get(url) 

WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'//span[text()="Mehr Informationen"]'))).click()
WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'//span[text()="Fertig"]'))).click()

search_box = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID,'VisualSearchInput')))
search_box.send_keys('Nike Dunk Low')
t.sleep(1)
search_box.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

Selenium documentation: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 13 '22 at 16:00

As per the error stacktrace there are two errors:

DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object: Implies that the default argument executable_path is deprecated now and you have to use an instance of the Service() class. See: DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated selenium python
AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'find_element_by_id': Implies that the find_element_by_* commands are deprecated in the latest Selenium Python libraries. Instead you have to use find_element(). See: find_element_by_* commands are deprecated in selenium

Your effective code block will be:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

s = Service('/Users/User/Desktop/it_projects/python-google-automation/Neuer Ordner/chromedriver')
driver = = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
driver.get('https://www.nike.com/de/?cp=58194921917_search_%7cnike%7c10594878138%7c107792850434%7ce%7cc%7cDE%7cpure%7c452291007809&ds_rl=1252249&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIod-_o8jD-QIVE4XVCh1-FggsEAAYASAAEgJSYfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds')
evade_cookie = driver.find_element(By.ID, "hf_cookie_text_moreInformation")

Python selenium is neither not looking for id nor selecting button or giving input

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