Question

selenium send key command not sending text

So I am trying to automate google meet classes and I want selenium to sign into chrome for me but when I am asking selenium to enter my email its not entering it into the text box. Please help me.

This is my code:

import time

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

path = r"C:\Users\User\Documents\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)

email = "example@gmail.com"
driver.get("https://meet.google.com/?hl=en")
start = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Sign in")
start.click()

sign = driver.find_element_by_id("yDmH0d").send_keys(email)
time.sleep(1)

Submit an answer


This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

Sign In or Sign Up to Answer

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Bobby Iliev
Site Moderator
Site Moderator badge
January 9, 2021
Accepted Answer

Hi there @anandu4115,

I’ve just tested this at my end. The problem is that with find_element_by_id("yDmH0d"), you are getting the div element that is wrapping the input field and not the input field itself.

You need to get the ID of the input field itself and not the wrapping div, the following should work:

driver.find_element_by_id("identifierId").send_keys(email)

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

Try DigitalOcean for free

Click below to sign up and get $200 of credit to try our products over 60 days!

Sign up

Get our biweekly newsletter

Sign up for Infrastructure as a Newsletter.

Hollie's Hub for Good

Working on improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth? We'd like to help.

Become a contributor

Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.

Welcome to the developer cloud

DigitalOcean makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Learn more
DigitalOcean Cloud Control Panel