Sign In by selecting button through Selenium in Python

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I am trying to sign in my account through this link on the Market Watch web page through Python and using the Selenium package. I am able to select the "Sign In" button and click on it but nothing happens and therefore can't access the webpage I want.

I think my mistake comes from the fact that I am perhaps not selecting the correct button. The element code is the following:

<div class="sign-in">
    <button class="solid-button basic-login-submit">
        <span class="text" data-token="signIn" token-title="signIn" title="Sign In">
        Sign In
        </span>
    </button>
</div>
<div class="create-connect" style="display: none;">
    <button class="solid-button basic-login-connect">
        <span class="text" data-token="yesConnect">
        Yes, connect
        </span>
    </button>
    ...some other buttons for facebook connection

My code is the following:

    driver.get("https://sso.accounts.dowjones.com/login?state=g6Fo2SBQQURPVkxkcTR0RW1zX21NSmxLY3F4Q2RoUm5QTWV4UaN0aWTZMmdhRm8yU0IwUW01dVV6WjJiVXhVUmtaRVRXd3dlamM1UVdjNVIweExiVFJVYlc5WFl3o2NpZNkgNWhzc0VBZE15MG1KVElDbkpOdkM5VFhFdzNWYTdqZk8&client=5hssEAdMy0mJTICnJNvC9TXEw3Va7jfO&protocol=oauth2&prompt=login&scope=openid%20idp_id%20given_name%20family_name%20email%20djid%20prts&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.marketwatch.com%2Fauth%2Fsso%2Flogin&nonce=ac689d94-8b8f-4e6d-9255-439f58fc3c0f&connection=DJldap&ui_locales=en-us-x-mw-3-8&ns=prod%2Faccounts-mw#!/signin") #this is the link above 

username = driver.find_element_by_id("username")
password = driver.find_element_by_id("password")

username.send_keys("[email protected]")
password.send_keys("***")

driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[contains(text(), 'Sign In')]").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[contains(text(), 'Yes, connect')]").click()

Where the first element is supposed to on the sign in button. I am not sure about the second click but I stilled tried it and still nothing happened.

I am interested to find out:

what am I doing wrong
why when I click on the "Sign In" button nothing happens
how to get over it

I have also tried without success:

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("solid-button.basic-login-submit")

From the look of the HTML on that page, the <form> has no action attribute, so I bet JavaScript is listening for an onclick or onsubmit event. Clicking this using Selenium might not be triggering DOM events correctly. You might want to try triggering a click event using JavaScript. — Greg Burghardt
– Greg Burghardt, Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 19:41

Acohen · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-05 20:45:09Z

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Your try is very close. Changing the code from your attempt to

# You'll need to import these dependencies
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

button = WebDriverWait(driver,1000).until(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"button.solid-button.basic-login-submit")

button.click()

WebDriverWait(0,1000) makes the program search for the element for 1000 seconds. This is better because it gives the page time to load.

answered Apr 5, 2019 at 20:45

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Frank Wang Over a year ago

Now it does not work, username.send_keys would also be wrong.

KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-05 19:47:01Z

Try use following code.This should work.Provide WebdriverWait after inserting value in the test field

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver=webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://sso.accounts.dowjones.com/login?state=g6Fo2SBQQURPVkxkcTR0RW1zX21NSmxLY3F4Q2RoUm5QTWV4UaN0aWTZMmdhRm8yU0IwUW01dVV6WjJiVXhVUmtaRVRXd3dlamM1UVdjNVIweExiVFJVYlc5WFl3o2NpZNkgNWhzc0VBZE15MG1KVElDbkpOdkM5VFhFdzNWYTdqZk8&client=5hssEAdMy0mJTICnJNvC9TXEw3Va7jfO&protocol=oauth2&prompt=login&scope=openid%20idp_id%20given_name%20family_name%20email%20djid%20prts&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.marketwatch.com%2Fauth%2Fsso%2Flogin&nonce=ac689d94-8b8f-4e6d-9255-439f58fc3c0f&connection=DJldap&ui_locales=en-us-x-mw-3-8&ns=prod%2Faccounts-mw#!/signin") #this is the link above

username = driver.find_element_by_id("username")
password = driver.find_element_by_id("password")

username.send_keys("[email protected]")
password.send_keys("***")
WebDriverWait(driver,5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[@class='solid-button basic-login-submit']"))).click()

Bharath · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-05 19:44:12Z

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try :

 driver.find_element_by_class_name('sign-in')

answered Apr 5, 2019 at 19:44

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Jortega · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-05 20:43:46Z

Even after the sign in button was clicked I was not signed in. I used the "login" href link from "https://www.marketwatch.com/" and this worked.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox
from time import sleep


driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'C:\\Py\\geckodriver.exe');

# driver.get('https://sso.accounts.dowjones.com/login?state=g6Fo2SBJbUhZMUdPZlJfOEJSRWgxLVVFNXhoR3E5cFdaVlI4dKN0aWTZMmdhRm8yU0JaV0ZCWVluSmxNM2c0UjJSVk4wNXFlSHByUW5SUU1sRnpjMjFDVkVoeFNno2NpZNkgNWhzc0VBZE15MG1KVElDbkpOdkM5VFhFdzNWYTdqZk8&client=5hssEAdMy0mJTICnJNvC9TXEw3Va7jfO&protocol=oauth2&prompt=login&scope=openid%20idp_id%20roles%20email%20given_name%20family_name%20djid%20djUsername%20djStatus%20trackid&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.marketwatch.com%2Fauth%2Fsso%2Flogin&nonce=4b5092ee-62d1-47cb-a16e-2ceb396b059c&connection=DJldap&ui_locales=en-us-x-mw-0&mg=ss-ngx#!/signin')
driver.get('https://accounts.marketwatch.com/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketwatch.com%2F')

sleep(5)

username = driver.find_element_by_id("username")
password = driver.find_element_by_id("password")

username.send_keys("[email protected]")
password.send_keys("***")

sign_in = driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[@id='basic-login']/div[1]/form/div/div[7]/div[1]/button")

sign_in.click()

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