Automating GMAIL login using Python-Selenium

In 2020 signing in with Gmail is much more tougher because Gmail takes selenium operated window as a bot window and will give a message like this one.img of error

But now I have found a successful way to log in without any error or warning by google.

you can log in to another website as google will accept it as secure login using another website like StackOverflow or some other website with Gmail login.

def gmail_sign_in(email, password):
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()

    driver.get('https://stackoverflow.com/users/signup?ssrc=head&returnurl=%2fusers%2fstory%2fcurrent')

    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="openid-buttons"]/button[1]').click()

    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="identifierId"]').send_keys(email)

    input = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="identifierNext"]/span/span'))
    )
    input.click()

    driver.implicitly_wait(1)

    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="password"]/div[1]/div/div[1]/input').send_keys(password)

    input = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="passwordNext"]/span/span'))
    )
    input.click()
    driver.implicitly_wait(1)
    driver.get('https://www.google.com/')

hope the code is understandable just this function and put your email and password make sure you have the appropriate imports.

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

I hope that, it will be helpful for automate the gmail in updated chrome version.

from selenium import webdriver
import time


driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://gmail.com")

driver.find_element_by_id("identifierId").send_keys('your mail id')
driver.find_element_by_id("identifierNext").click()
time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_name("password").send_keys('your password')
driver.find_element_by_id("passwordNext").click()
time.sleep(5)

driver.get("https://accounts.google.com/SignOutOptions?hl=en&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail&service=mail")
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[normalize-space()="Sign out"]').click()
driver.close()

I have another solution that works without any hustle. Use Seleniumwire with undetected browser v2

from seleniumwire.undetected_chromedriver.v2 import Chrome, ChromeOptions
options = {}
chrome_options = ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=hash')
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
# chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = Chrome(seleniumwire_options=options, options=chrome_options)

# use selenium methods as usual to navigate through elements and you will be able to log in.

In addition to this, seleniumwire has many awesome features, checkout github repository

You can use key to avoid one more search for next element

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

   def login_gmail(email,password):

     browser.find_element_by_name('Email').send_keys(email+Keys.ENTER)
     time.sleep(2)
     browser.find_element_by_name('Passwd').send_keys(password+Keys.ENTER)

You can do this but I would not recommend automation something like gmail. It would not be a good practise. For testing emails - I would suggest a tool like - https://putsbox.com/

The method shearching for ID is no longer working for me too .

I checked the docs and found out a bunch of other methods to get to success .

Try searching the element by NAME , it works.

password = wait.until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME,'password')))

CLASS_NAME

The problem is gmail changed the way login works. You insert your email on one page then click next and then you get a new page where you insert the password and click on sign in. Try something like this:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()

browser.get('http://gmail.com')

emailElem = browser.find_element_by_id('Email')
emailElem.send_keys('MyUserName')
nextButton = browser.find_element_by_id('next')
nextButton.click()
passwordElem = browser.find_element_by_id('Passwd')
passwordElem.send_keys('MyPassword')
signinButton = browser.find_element_by_id('signIn')
signinButton.click()

The best way is to use explicit waits when you need to wait any element. It's better than time.sleep(1).

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

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://gmail.com')
wait = WebDriverWait(browser, 10)

password_elem = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID,'Passwd')))
password_elem.send_keys("MyPassword")
browser.find_element_by_name('signIn').click()

Hope, this will help you.

This is a more updated version

def loginToGmail():
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from time import sleep




chrome_driver = "C:/Python37/chromedriver.exe"
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver) 
browser.get('https://gmail.com')

if "inbox" in browser.current_url:
    print("Logged in")
else:
    identifier=WebDriverWait(browser, 30).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "identifier"))) 
    identifier.send_keys(LOGIN)
    nextBtn = browser.find_element_by_id ('identifierNext')
    nextBtn.click()
    sleep(1)
    password=WebDriverWait(browser, 30).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "password")))
    password.send_keys(PASSWD)
    nextBtn = browser.find_element_by_id('passwordNext')
    nextBtn.click()

    waitTimer=0
    logged=False
    while waitTimer<30 and not logged:
        sleep(1)
        waitTimer+=1
        if "inbox" in browser.current_url: 
            logged=True
            print("Logged in")

LATEST SOLUTION 2022-02-23 From terminal pip install undetected-chromedriver then do the following steps, as shown below.
NOTE: indent your code inside if name == main, as i have done, only then the program will work

import undetected_chromedriver as uc
from time import sleep
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By


if __name__ == '__main__':
    
    driver = uc.Chrome()
    driver.get('https://accounts.google.com/')

    # add email
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="identifierId"]').send_keys(YOUR EMAIL)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="identifierNext"]/div/button/span').click()
    sleep(3)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="password"]/div[1]/div/div[1]/input').send_keys(YOUR PASSWORD)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="passwordNext"]/div/button/span').click()
    sleep(10)