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how to change select value use python selenium

I want to get selected option using Selenium WebDriver with Python
but I used select_by_value can't get vaule
I have the following HTML code
<select id="play_date" name="play_date" onclick="javascript:GoodsInfo.GetPlayDate(this);" onmouseover="javascript:GoodsInfo.GetPlayDate(this);" onchange="javascript:GoodsInfo.GetPlayTime(this.value);">
<option value="" selected="">Select Date</option>
<option value="20230202" style="color: black;">Thu, Feb 02, 2023</option></select>
I am trying to get a list of the option values ('20230202') using Selenium.
At the moment I have the following Python code
select_date = Select(wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[#id='play_date']"))))
select_date.select_by_value('20230202')
but it's always have is
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Could not locate element with index 1
Any help or pointers is appreciated, thank you!

If you get error NoSuchElementException it means that you are using a wrong xpath/css_selector or that the element is inside an iframe. You can check by looking at the HTML
So your case is the latter, and to make the xpath work you have first to switch to the iframe, using driver.switch_to.frame() or better EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it.
WebDriverWait(driver, 9).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.ID, "product_detail_area")))
dropdown_date = WebDriverWait(driver,9).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "play_date")))
options = []
# open menu so that options are loaded
dropdown_date.click()
# wait until options are loaded
while not options:
options = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#play_date option:not([value=''])")
time.sleep(1)
# close menu
dropdown_date.click()
print('available options:')
for opt in options:
print(opt.get_attribute('value'))
select_date = Select(dropdown_date)
select_date.select_by_value(input('enter value: '))

Unable to access element of iframe with Selenium in Python

I have literally tried everything I could think of so far and searched everywhere but haven't been able to find a working solution.
I am trying to automate the process of creating Advertisement Links on a website called Linkvertise. My current code is:
from time import sleep
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("user-data-dir=selenium")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
link_to_publish = "https://random.com/2937"
browser.get("https://publisher.linkvertise.com/dashboard#link-create")
# set link
browser.switch_to.frame("link-create-iframe")
browser.find_element(By.ID, "mat-input-0").send_keys(link_to_publish)
# click continue
sleep(3)
browser.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "body > app-root > lv-link-create-page-component > div > lv-lm-page > div > div.col.p-0 > div > lv-lm-button-wrapper > div > lv-button.mat-tooltip-trigger > a").click()
# toggle off visibility
sleep(3)
browser.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#mat-slide-toggle-2 > label > div").click()
# set title
sleep(3)
browser.find_element(By.ID, 'mat-input-8')
You need to run it once and login manually, it will then store the session in the current directory and you can start running the full program.
I still have the sleep times in there as I wanted the process to be a little slower.
My issue:
The element is on the second page of the iframe (image attached). I have already successfully access other elements within that iframe, even on the same page. But for some reason I am not able to add the link description (bottom of my screenshot).
enter image description here
Does anyone know why that is?
I will also provide some dummy login details if anyone is willing to check, I would highly appreciate it!!
Email: pschw1#tellofon.com
Password: Pschw123!
HTML Code of the element I'm trying to access:
<input lvpreventdoublespacesdoublenewlines="" autocomplete="off" formcontrolname="btn_text" matinput="" spellcheck="false" class="mat-input-element mat-form-field-autofill-control ng-touched ng-pristine ng-invalid cdk-text-field-autofill-monitored highlight-textarea" maxlength="50" placeholder="Beschreibe deinen Link präzise in wenigen Worten" required="" id="mat-input-22" data-placeholder="Beschreibe deinen Link präzise in wenigen Worten" aria-required="true">
What I tried so far:
using higher sleep delays incase the error just came from the content not loading in time
leaving the iframe incase the element wasn't actually inside it
finding element by ID, class name, css selector, xpath
I've searched for help in other online forums and even looked for help on fiverr, but nobody was able to provide a solution yet.😅

This element's ID mat-input-8 is a dynamic one, it is keep on changing everytime, you can use the below one:
driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".input-area.single-line-input input").send_keys("something for testing")

Can't Click Radio Button in Selenium Using Python

Here is the HTML Code:
<div class="ui-helper-hidden-accessible">
<input type="radio" name="group2" value="yes">
</div>
Full script
Here are the code which i've tried to click the radio button:
driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'input[name= "group2"][value="yes"]').click()
AND
rdbutton = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'input[name= "group2"][value="yes"]'))).click()
AND
rdbutton = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//input[#name='group2']")
for rdbuttons in rdbutton:
if rdbuttons.is_selected():
pass
else:
rdbuttons.click()

It seems that you are using wrong locator. From the HTML you have given i think you are trying to click on radio button that have label Ya if this is the case then try with below xpath:
"//label[contains(text(),'Ya')]"
OR
"//*[normalize-space()='Ya']"
If this does not solve your problem, so please explain and add HTML of proper element either by screenshot or in textual format

Unable to Click on Dropdown using Python Selenium

I'm trying to select an element from a dropdown but getting an error.
Here is the HTML:
<select id="childContextDDL" data-filter="contains" data-role="dropdownlist" data-template="dcf-context-picker" data-value-field="Value" data-text-field="DisplayText" data-bind="events: { change: childContextListChange }, source: childContextList.ChildContextList" style="display: none;">
<option value="1">NATION</option>
<option value="12">ATLANTIC</option>
<option value="16">CHARLOTTE, NC</option>
And this is the code that I'm trying to run:
mySelect = Select(driver.find_element_by_id("childContextDDL"))
print('MySelect is: ',mySelect)
mySelect.select_by_visible_text('ATLANTIC')
I'm getting this error:
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable: Element is not currently visible and may not be manipulated
What's the possible reason for getting this error? I'm very new to Selenium.
I also want to click on that element after selecting it.

The problem was that the style within the html was set to none. So I had to first change that style to block to make it visible and then proceed with the clicking operation.
Here's the code that worked:
driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('childContextDDL').style.display = 'block';")
mySelect = Select(driver.find_element_by_id("childContextDDL"))
print('MySelect is: ',mySelect)
mySelect.select_by_visible_text('ATLANTIC')
randomClick = driver.find_element_by_id('dcf-user-info')
randomClick.click()

I guess the mySelect element (the dropdown menu) is not visible.
So please try the following:
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
actions = ActionChains(driver)
mySelect = Select(driver.find_element_by_id("childContextDDL"))
actions.move_to_element(mySelect).perform()
mySelect.select_by_visible_text('ATLANTIC')
If the above doesn't work (I can't see the actual site you are working on), the following can work instead in the element has to be tapped to become enabled
action = TouchActions(driver)
action.tap(mySelect).perform()
mySelect.select_by_visible_text('ATLANTIC')

If it says it is not currently visible, you should try pausing the code with one of this options:
time.sleep(1) #This states to your code to stop for 1 second and the continue with the work.
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_visible(BY.value, "12")) # tells the driver to wait a maximum of ten seconds until the value "12" is visible for the driver.

Selenium driven browser shows different HTML code

I am not a very experienced coder so apologies if I say smth stupid.
I am using Python (in Spyder) to get Selenium to fill in a website form containing username and password. Here's the target - link.
When I lookup the "username" element by pressing F12 in a regular browser I get the following:
<input class="slds-input input" type="text" aria-describedby="" placeholder="Username" id="172:0" data-aura-rendered-by="176:0" data-interactive-lib-uid="2">
So I attempt to locate the element using the ID. However when I run the script, I get the following error in Chrome:
NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="172:0"]"}
Same when I run it in Firefox instead:
NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: [id="172:0"]
When I check HTML in the Selenium driven browser, I can see that the page code is (ie element ID) different, as below
<input class="slds-input input" type="text" aria-describedby="" placeholder="Username" id="78:2;a" data-aura-rendered-by="82:2;a" data-interactive-lib-uid="2">
My best guess is that the difference in HTML code is the reason for error. I found people posting similar issues but those were slightly different and I was not able to solve my issue using the solutions proposed there. I would appreciate is someone could help with my case.

Use xpath instead of id since it changes dynamically
Xpath for UserName: //label/following-sibling::input
Xpath for Password: //lightning-input//div//input
Sample working code which works in java convert with using above xpath in python and also add implicitlyWait and pageLoadTimeout befor launching the website
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("https://lta-tennis.force.com/"); // WebElement
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label/following-sibling::input")).sendKeys("dummy");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//lightning-input//div//input")).sendKeys("dummy");
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
Edit 1: Based on OP comment
This is working xpath

try these xpaths
//input[#placeholder="Username"]
//input[#placeholder="Password"]
here is the full code
from selenium import webdriver
import time
browser = webdriver.Chrome('C:\\driverpath\\chromedriver.exe')
url = 'https://lta-tennis.force.com/s/login/'
get = browser.get(url)
time.sleep(5)
browser.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#placeholder="Username"]').send_keys('hello')
browser.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#placeholder="Password"]').send_keys('pass')