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selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message error sending text to username field within iframe using Selenium Python

When i try to locate one element with selellium it fails

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = r'./chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("http://eltiempo.com/login")
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='username']"))
finally:
    driver.quit()
                Any reason for using XPATH over id selector?. Please try with id selector, id is unique in entire DOM and id selector works much better than xpath. Even xpath works differently in different browsers, so if you want to run your code in all machine id selector is much better
– Sajid
                Dec 14, 2020 at 5:15
To send a character sequence to the username field as the element is within an <iframe> so you have to:
Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.
Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable.
You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using CSS_SELECTOR:
driver.get("https://www.eltiempo.com/login")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe.iframe-login")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='username']"))).send_keys("Nick Rondon@stackoverflow.com")
Using XPATH:
driver.get('https://www.eltiempo.com/login')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@class='iframe-login']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='username']"))).send_keys("Nick Rondon@stackoverflow.com")
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
Browser Snapshot:
You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
Ways to deal with #document under iframe
Switch to an iframe through Selenium and python
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element while trying to click Next button with selenium
selenium in python : NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element
        
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