How can I fix NoSuchElementException error in python?

Question

This is the HTML of search of virustotal but I'm receiving the below error.

<input type="text" id="searchInput" class="form-control px-3 position-absolute h-100 bg-transparent" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false" autofocus="" placeholder="URL, IP address, domain, or file hash">

Error:

search = driver.find_element(By.ID, "searchInput")
NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="searchInput"]"}

My code:

PATH = r"D:\VT Automation\chromedriver.exe"
service = Service(executable_path='./chromedriver.exe')

# Set up Chrome options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)

driver.get("https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/search")
time.sleep(5)

# Locate the search input element
search = driver.find_element(By.ID, "searchInput")

search.send_keys("759b1fcbdf4ad54bb8adc2c060df8ab5")
search.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

# Wait for the result element to be present
try:
    result = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "positives"))
    )
    print(result.text)
except Exception as e:
    print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
finally:
    driver.quit()

Answer 1

The <input> element is within multiple shadow-root elements. In such cases, selenium can't directly interact with the desired element. You can interact with desired element using Javascript as in the below code.

Code:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/search")
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 15)
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((driver.execute_script("return document.querySelector('home-view').shadowRoot.querySelector('vt-ui-search-bar').shadowRoot.querySelector('input#searchInput')")))).send_keys("test")
driver.quit()

Result: