I am trying to do some automated functionality using python selenium, and I'm coming across some weird behavior.
General layout of the html:
<html>
<body>
<div class="parent">
<iframe style="display: none"> ... </iframe>
<iframe style="display: none"> ... </iframe>
<iframe style="display: block">
#document
...
<div class="someClass"> ... </div>
</iframe>
<iframe style="display: none"> ... </iframe>
<iframe style="display: none"> ... </iframe>
</div>
</body>
Now, each iframe actually has the same inner html, and the code from the website seems to be randomly choosing which iframe is getting the display="block". However, I can't find any of the iframes.
I tried a standard way: iframe = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//iframe[contains(@style, 'display:block')]")
That failing, I then tried just to find any iframe: driver.find_element_by_tag_name("iframe")
Neither of those found any iframe elements. I'm seeing the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "myfile.py", line 60, in <module>
iframe = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//iframe[contains(@style, 'display: block')]")
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 394, in find_element_by_xpath
return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 978, in find_element
'value': value})['value']
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector: The result of the xpath expression "//iframe[contains(@style, 'display: block')]" is: [object HTMLIFrameElement]. It should be an element.
(Session info: chrome=93.0.4577.63)
Any thoughts on why the xpath is returning [object HTMLIFrameElement] and why I can't access that as I do other objects when searching by xpath?
Edit
New code option 1:
iframes = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(".//iframe[contains(@style,'display: block')]")
This still throws the exact same error as above
New code option 2:
parent = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='parent']")
iframes = parent.find_elements_by_tag_name("iframe")
// when I print typeof iframes here, it's a list of dicts
// find the right index. Here, for simplicity, I just set it a default value
index = 4
// ...
driver.switch_to.frame(iframes[index])
I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "myfile.py", line 76, in <module>
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\switch_to.py", line 89, in frame
self._driver.execute(Command.SWITCH_TO_FRAME, {'id': frame_reference})
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: invalid argument: missing 'ELEMENT'
(Session info: chrome=93.0.4577.82)
And when I print out iframes:
[{}, {}, {}, {}, {u'ontouchmove': {}, u'ontouchstart': {}}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}]
For reference, this is the page I'm trying to hit. Sometimes you have to refresh a few times to get the challenge, and it comes far more frequent when using selenium. Also, using headless mode causes the challenge to happen everytime... https://catalog.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/morgan-and-peace-silver-dollar-coins/
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