How to send text to Email field within Twitter login page using Selenium and Python

Question

The code for username text area looks like this. It doesn’t have any id and the xpath didn’t work as well.

The element from Twitter looks like this

<input autocapitalize="none" autocomplete="on" autocorrect="off" name="session[username_or_email]" spellcheck="false" type="text" dir="auto" data-focusable="true" class="r-30o5oe r-1niwhzg r-17gur6a r-1yadl64 r-deolkf r-homxoj r-poiln3 r-7cikom r-1ny4l3l r-1inuy60 r-utggzx r-vmopo1 r-1w50u8q r-1swcuj1 r-1dz5y72 r-1ttztb7 r-13qz1uu" value="">

Answer 1

To send a character sequence to the Email field with in Twitter login page https://twitter.com/login you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='session[username_or_email]']"))).send_keys("zeecode")
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='session[username_or_email]']"))).send_keys("zeecode")
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

Answer 2

//input[@name="session[username_or_email]" and @type="text"]