Selenium Takes A Long Time To Find An Element.is There Something I Can Do?

I have been trying to write a selenium script to login to my Quora account. This is the script I have written. from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys im

Solution 1:

The reason why it is taking a while is because you are preforming time.sleep()

You should not do this, it's bad practice. You should be using WebDriver waits. I would personally go with Implicit waits for your scenario. Please see the documentation

Solution 2:

This is something I've seen here asked on SO multiple times, see:

• Is Selenium slow, or is my code wrong?
• Unable to login to quora using selenium webdriver in python

I've been able to reproduce the slow code execution using Firefox, but the following code works without any delays using Chrome or PhantomJS driver:

import getpass

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keysimportKeys

email = raw_input("email: ")
password = getpass.getpass("Password: ")

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

form = driver.find_element_by_class_name('regular_login')
form.find_element_by_name('email').send_keys(email)
form.find_element_by_name('password').send_keys(password + Keys.RETURN)

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FYI, for Firefox, it helps to overcome the issue if you fire up Firefox with disabled javascript:

firefox_profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
firefox_profile.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)
firefox_profile.set_preference("javascript.enabled", False)

driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=firefox_profile)
driver.get('http://www.quora.com/')

But, as you would see - you'll quickly get a different set of problems.