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selenium firefox python won't locate upload button

I'm using Selenium with Firefox (I've tried chrome but the success ratio on this one was significantly lower). I'm trying to locate an element (upload button) and the success ratio is nowhere near an acceptable percentage.

Now I know that I could try to use just selenium to the input but it wont locate it as well no matter what I do. So I used AutoIt for the uploading part.

frdriver.get('')
time.sleep(11)
try:
# el = WebDriverWait(frdriver, 15).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/header/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/form/i[2]')))
el = frdriver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/header/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/form/i[2]')

try:
el.click()
print(el)
#ActionChains(frdriver).move_to_element(el).click().perform()
try:
#element = WebDriverWait(frdriver, 15).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/header/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/form/div[2]/div[3]/div[1]/div/div/div[1]')))

element = frdriver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/header/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/form/div[2]/div[3]/div[1]/div/div/div[1]')
time.sleep(4)
try:
element.click()
#ActionChains(frdriver).move_to_element(element).click().perform()
autoit.run("/image.exe")
r = 100
except:
print('Firefox retries upload')
r += 1
except:
print('Firefox retries upload')
r += 1
except:
print('Firefox retries upload')
r += 1
except:
print('Firefox retries upload')
r += 1


As you can see I've tried many ways, each one had almost the same success.
I'm using a remote windows machine for the job and it really might be my idea, but when it isn't minimized it works a lot better.

Also there is something else, for some reason there are times that even if it hasn't successfully clicked a button it bypasses the try/except and proceeds.

Edit html of the page

<div class="ui-searchbar-keyword-panel ui-searchbar-keyword-hide ui-searchbar-static" style="z-index: 99; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 35px;" data-widget-cid="widget-7">
<div class="ui-searchbar-img-search-box">
<div class="icbu-w-image-uploader-panel">
<div class="icbu-w-image-uploader-content">
<div class="upload-btn-wrapper">
<div class="upload-btn" data-spm-anchor-id="a2700.8293689.scGlobalHomeHeader.i1.2ce265aarlKA3D" style="z-index: 1;">Upload Image</div>
<div id="html5_1cjiqdvveht51pom1nbkqoiaop3_container" class="moxie-shim moxie-shim-html5" style="position: absolute; top: 14px; left: 224px; width: 109px; height: 28px; overflow: hidden; z-index: 0;">
<input id="html5_1cjiqdvveht51pom1nbkqoiaop3" type="file" style="font-size: 999px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;" multiple="" accept="image/jpeg,image/png,image/bmp">
</div>
</div>
<div class="response-text">Max 2MB per Image</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="J-box-loadding-mask box-loadding-mask" data-role="loading" style="display: none;">
<div class="mh-mamo-loadding-box">
<i class="mh-mamo-icon-loadding"></i>
<span class="J-loading-text mh-mamo-loadding-text">Loading...</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>


1 Answer
1

You should use driver.implicitly_wait(X) where X is a number of seconds instead of reinventing the wheel with using time.sleep and retrying. That will increase selenium's tolerance towards the page loading and you will have better success in finding page elements.

driver.implicitly_wait(X)

time.sleep

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