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Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".recaptcha-checkbox-border"}

I am trying to bypass the captcha verification using Selenium but I keep getting this error

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".recaptcha-checkbox-border"}

I have already tried using sleep(20) and it doesn't work. Here is the link that I am trying to bypass captcha on: https://whitepages.co.nz/ycaptcha?next=%2Fwhite-all%2Fhalswell%2Fchristchurch%2F

Please let me know if I am making a mistake in the the selector class or anything.

Solution

  • The reCAPTCHA is within an <iframe> so you have to:

    • Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.

    • Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable.

    • You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

      • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

        driver.get("https://whitepages.co.nz/ycaptcha?next=%2Fwhite-all%2Fhalswell%2Fchristchurch%2F")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[src^='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/anchor']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.recaptcha-checkbox-border"))).click()

      • Using XPATH:

        driver.get("https://whitepages.co.nz/ycaptcha?next=%2Fwhite-all%2Fhalswell%2Fchristchurch%2F")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[starts-with(@src, 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/anchor')]")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='recaptcha-checkbox-border']"))).click()

    • Note : You have to add the following imports :

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

    • Browser Snapshot:

    whitepages

    Reference

    You can find a couple of relevant discussions in: