Selenium Web Scraping Error: Element Not Interactable

Question

As you can see below that am trying to build small APP that login Twitter but i keep getting an error

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


class TwitterBot:
    def __init__(self, username, password):
        self.username = username
        self.password = password
        self.bot = webdriver.Chrome()

    def login(self):
        bot = self.bot
        bot.get("https://twitter.com/login/")
        time.sleep(3)


email = bot.find_element_by_name('session[username_or_email]')
password = bot.find_element_by_name('session[password]')

email.clear()
password.clear()
email.send_keys(self.username)
password.send_keys(self.password)
password.send_keys(keys.RETURN)

Output:

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable
  (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.88)

did you try using wait conditions? selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html — Matts
– Matts, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 1:04
Hi Omar, welcome to Stack Overflow community, kindly please share the HTML source for the element, also please note that error is usually resolvable by using implicitlyWait — αԋɱҽԃ αмєяιcαη
– αԋɱҽԃ αмєяιcαη, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 1:12
The problem is not a waiting issue. He is selecting the wrong element on the page. — Matthew Gaiser
– Matthew Gaiser, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 1:18

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-26 09:24:28Z

First of all, your code does not generate the stated error given when copy and pasted. I had to correct lines 6 and 22 to get it to run properly. Please be careful when putting code on here as it will discourage answers.

Your problem is that the session[username_or_email] is not a unique element on the Twitter login page. There are actually 3 elements with that name.

You need to select the one which is actually interactable, which is the 2nd session[username_or_email] on the page. Same thing with session[password] Your code selects the first element on the page with that name. You are seeking the 2nd element on the page with that name.

You must change

email = bot.find_element_by_name('session[username_or_email]')
password = bot.find_element_by_name('session[password]')

to

email = bot.find_elements_by_name('session[username_or_email]')[1]
password = bot.find_elements_by_name('session[password]')[1]

The fully working code with all modifications

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

class TwitterBot:
    def __init__(self, username, password):
        self.username = username
        self.password = password
        self.bot = webdriver.Chrome()
    def login(self):
        bot = self.bot
        bot.get("https://twitter.com/login/")
        time.sleep(3)

        email = bot.find_elements_by_name('session[username_or_email]')[1]
        password = bot.find_elements_by_name('session[password]')[1]

        email.clear()
        password.clear()
        email.send_keys(self.username)
        password.send_keys(self.password)
        password.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

Omar = TwitterBot('Omar Username', 'Omar password')
Omar.login()

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