I'm trying to download a link within a table after navigating to a page using Python3 + selenium. After using selenium to click through links, and inspecting the elements on the latest-loaded page, I can see that my element is within a frame called "contents". When I try to access this frame, however, upon calling:
DRIVER.switch_to_frame("contents")
I get the following error:
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException: Message: contents
To gain more context I applied an experiment. Both the page that I loaded using DRIVER.get(URL) and the one to which I navigated had a frame called "menu".
I could call DRIVER.switch_to_frame("menu") on the first page, but not on the second.
DRIVER = webdriver.Chrome(CHROME_DRIVER)
DRIVER.get(SITE_URL)
DRIVER.switch_to_frame("contents") # This works
target_element = DRIVER.find_element_by_name(LINK)
target_element.click()
time.sleep(5)
DRIVER.switch_to_frame("menu")
target_element = DRIVER.find_element_by_name(LINK2)
target_element.click()
target_element = DRIVER.find_element_by_name(LINK3)
target_element.click()
DRIVER.switch_to_frame("contents") # Code breaks here.
target_element = DRIVER.find_element_by_xpath(REF)
target_element.click()
print("Program complete.")
I expect the code to find the xpath reference for the link in the "contents" frame. Instead, when attempt to switch to the "contents" frame, python run-time errors and cannot find "contents".
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException: Message: contents
this is because you are staying in child level of iframe which is 'menu' so inside that it can't able to find the iframe 'contents'.
First Switch back to the parent frame which is "contents", by using
DRIVER.switch_to.default_content()
and then try to go to the 'contents' iframe and perform actions, Now it should work.