Switch frames with selenium and phantomJS

Question

I need to open the search windows on this page.

https://permits.losgatosca.gov/CitizenAccess/default.aspx

With firefox is working just fine, but when I try to do the same with phantomJS i got an error.

This is the code I'm using to open the search

BUTTON_id =  'ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_TabDataList_TabsDataList_ctl01_LinksDataList_ctl00_LinkItemUrl' #'//*[@id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_TabDataList_TabsDataList_ctl01_LinksDataList_ctl00_LinkItemUrl"]/span'
driver_1.switch_to_frame("ACAFrame")
button = driver_1.find_element_by_id(BUTTON_id)
button.click()

And this is the error I'm getting with phanthomJS:

Message: Error Message => 'Unable to switch to frame'

In this post it says that using:

driver.switchTo().frame(frame_index)
driver.switchTo().frame(frame_id)
driver.switchTo().frame(frame_object)

It solves the issue, but I don't know what to put in:

frame_index         
frame_id           
frame_object

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-05 15:27:12Z

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This is what you should try:

upgrade both selenium and PhantomJS to the latest versions

add a wait before switching to frame:

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

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "ACAFrame")))

driver.switch_to.frame("ACAFrame")

(worked for me)

answered Jul 5, 2016 at 15:27

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4 Comments

Luis Ramon Ramirez Rodriguez Over a year ago

Dis you test it on the page? I'm getting this error: raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: Screenshot: available via screen

alecxe Over a year ago

@LuisRamonRamirezRodriguez yup, worked for me. I had an update in the answer, make sure u have tried the latest version of the answer

Luis Ramon Ramirez Rodriguez Over a year ago

it worked just fine. Is there a way to optimize the waiting time?

alecxe Over a year ago

@LuisRamonRamirezRodriguez great, how long does it take to wait for the frame to be present?

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