Python issue with element

[LADA]

Working with Selenium

When trying to log into a social network ( https://www.reddit.com/login/ ) , the Log In button does not work. I can't extract the correct element, even though I tried using XPath, but it seems they have some protection in place.

In such cases, what should I do if even XPath doesn't help?

 

[thebotmaker]

There's probably another selector you can try, care to post a snippet?


Also vanilla selenium is detected rather easily, though it may work for your use case.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/evading-selenium-detection-the-ultimate-guide.1569690/

 

[LADA]

There's probably another selector you can try, care to post a snippet?


Also vanilla selenium is detected rather easily, though it may work for your use case.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/evading-selenium-detection-the-ultimate-guide.1569690/

I tried every selector that is possible, it doesn’t work, maybe I’m doing something wrong , but Reddits protection seems to work, I wonder, there must be some solution

 

[Matheus Moreira]

I tried every selector that is possible, it doesn’t work, maybe I’m doing something wrong , but Reddits protection seems to work, I wonder, there must be some solution

Can you trigger the click inside the browser's console via js? If so, thats a starting point.

With puppeteer you can execute any js inside the page, i think selenium must be the same? Never used selenium.

 

[haxel]

Have you tried sending the enter key on the password box after typing the password?

Idk the specific selenium code to do it but as a human, that's what I use on practically every website. Something like:
```
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver.find_element_by_name("Value").send_keys(Keys.ENTER)```

 

[bdsto]

The Button resides within a ShadowDOM / ShadowRoot.
You can solve this by traversing to the element via custom JS within your py script.
Selenium 4 also supports interacting with ShadowDOM natively. Read the doc