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Selenium Python find_element Xpath cant find xpath

I want to access an website with selenium and than a addblock-window appears, in which i need to click a button for it to disappear.
Eventhough I can find my XPath(//button[#title='Einverstanden'], /html/body/div/div[2]/div[3]/div[1]/button[#title = 'Einverstanden'] or
//button[contains(text(),"Einverstanden")]') in the browser,
I can't find it with my Python script. And i can't seem to find the mistake.
Here is my code.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get("``https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000134260361/endspiel-vor-gericht-prozess-gegen-boris-becker-startet-in-london``")
driver.maximize_window()
x = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[#title = 'Einverstanden']")
print(x)
This is the error I'm getting.

The button is enclosed in an iframe in which case, you first need to switch to the iframe and then access the element
This should work:
driver.get("https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/")
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH, "//div[contains(#id, 'sp_message_container')]//iframe")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[title='Einverstanden']"))).click()
Wait Imports:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
In case you want to switch to default frame again, you may use this when required:
driver.switch_to.default_content()

cannot select button by xpath in selenium python

button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath(
"/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/div[1]/main/div/div[2]/div/div/div/form/div[3]/button")
button.click()
when I try to run my code I get the exception: selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/div[1]/main/div/div[2]/div/div/div/form/div[3]/button"}
(Session info: chrome=91.0.4472.164
meanwhile its the xpath of the button which is found https://www.zalando.fr/login
and this is the element
Se connecter
i've tried finding it by class name and everything it just doesn't work

Your locator is wrong.
Also use explicit wait.
Try this:
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, 20)
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[data-testid='login_button']"))).click()

you can try this where need to handle the cookie window which is getting displayed after the page is getting loaded and used explicitWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
driver.get("https://www.zalando.fr/login")
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[normalize-space()='OK']"))).click()
#here I'm passing the user name
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id='login.email']").send_keys("email")
#here passing password
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id='login.password']").send_keys("password")
#clicking on the `Se connecter` button
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[#data-testid='login_button']"))).click()

The xpath ended up being wrong. I copied it from chrometools and tried later with brave and I got the correct xpath.

Python Selenium, help me locate an element in a website

I want to click on "new order" icon in mt4 web terminal using selenium module in python
This is the code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')
driver.get("https://www.mql5.com/en/trading")
new_order = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[3]/div[1]/a[1]/span[1]')
new_order.click()
And this is the error that I get:
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[3]/div[1]/a[1]/span[1]"}
(Session info: chrome=86.0.4240.198)
What is the correct way to locate that button, I searched and found some ways to locate elements for selenium but I couldn't get any of them work for me.

Looks like your page is dealing with iframes. So while the above answer has good practices, you also need to switch to the iframe:
driver.switch_to.iframe(self,frame reference)
Look for more details at https://www.techbeamers.com/switch-between-iframes-selenium-python/ or https://stackoverflow.com/a/24286392/1387701

The element with tooltip as New Order 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 the following xpath based Locator Strategies:
driver.get('https://www.mql5.com/en/trading')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[#id='webTerminalHost']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[text()='Connect to an Account']//following-sibling::div[1]/span"))).click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[#title='New Order']/span"))).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

You can use a different xpath:
new_order = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[#title="New Order"]')
But I would suggest By, WebDriverWait, and expected_conditions:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')
driver.get("https://www.mql5.com/en/trading")
time.sleep(5)
iframe = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//iframe[#id="webTerminalHost"]')))
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
new_order = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//a[#title="New Order"]')))
new_order.click()

Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/a[1]"}

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
import time
print('\n')
print("PROGRAM STARTING")
print('~~~~~~')
print('\n')
# initiate driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://arcselfservice.sbcounty.gov/web/user/disclaimer')
#begin
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="submitDisclaimerAccept"]').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/a[1]').click()
I have been stuck on this error for a long time, for some reason it can't find the element even though I am specifying the xpath. There doesn't seem to be any iframes, and implicit or explicit wait doesn't work either. Please help.

So the issue was waiting for the element to come up and then clicking it.
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/a[1]"))).click()
Another way if you want to change to the other tags later.
path = "//a/div/h1[text()='{}']/../..".format("Fictitious Business Names Application")
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH ,path))).click()
Import
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

The error is coming because the element is taking time to be available for use. Kindly use the explicit wait for the element extraction.
A small snippet can be:
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH ,'/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/a[1]'))).click()
Just dont forget to import
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

Accessing the search bar and searching using selenium

I was trying to access the search bar of this website: https://www.kissanime.ru
using selenium. I tried it using xpath, class, css_selector but every time this error pops up in the terminal.
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to
locate element: //*[#id="keyword"]
My approach to the problem was :
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
driver=webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://kissanime.ru/")
driver.maximize_window()
search=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="keyword"]')
search.send_keys("boruto")
search.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

Try adding some wait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions
search = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "keyword")))

Add wait to avoid race condition
driver.implicitly_wait(20)