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Selenium Testing unable to target element

I am running some testing on our website using selenium.
At the login page I would like to target the login button and click it.
the source code of the page looks like this:
I am trying to target the second button that has the class=OTSigninButton by using its xpath.
so here is the python code.
time.sleep(5)
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="root"]/div/div[1]/div/svg[2]/path')
element.click()
but when I run the code I get the following error:
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[#id="root"]/div/div[1]/div/svg[2]/path"}
(Session info: chrome=91.0.4472.106)
Here is the weird part. The login page has 2 buttons, their xpath is similar as its a list.
the first button is:
//*[#id="root"]/div/div[1]/div/svg[1]/path
and the second button(the one I want to target) is
//*[#id="root"]/div/div[1]/div/svg[1]/path
As both of them has the id=root, if I find_element_by_id and target root, I am able to click on the first button.
Here is where I am struggling a lot, how can I use the xpath to target the second button?
thank you so much for your time and help guys.
EDIT: Full error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 17, in <module>
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[local-name()='svg' and contains(#class, 'OTSigninButton')]/title")
File "/Users/<user>/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 394, in find_element_by_xpath
return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
File "/Users/<user>/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 976, in find_element
return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
File "/Users/<user>/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/Users/<user>/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[local-name()='svg' and contains(#class, 'OTSigninButton')]/title"}
(Session info: chrome=91.0.4472.106)

class=OTSigninButton
is a attribute of SVG. These are special tags, you can not just write their tag name in console and locate them.
try this instead :
//*[local-name()='svg' and contains(#class, 'OTSigninButton')]

How to edit chromes search and homepage with selenium/python?

I am trying to edit chrome browsers search and homepage using selenium/python. After navigating to chrome://settings/searchEngines and targeting the 'add' button with the ID 'addSearchEngine', I get an error when I run a .click function. How do I target this element correctly, or is there another way to update chromes search/startpage with python?
I'm guessing this element is trapped inside an iframe but I'm unable to find one on the page using the dev tools, xpath noted the following about the absolute xpath: "It might be a child of iframe from different src & it is not supported currently."
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.set_page_load_timeout(10)
driver.get("chrome://settings/searchEngines")
driver.find_element_by_id("addSearchEngine").click()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Jonathan/PycharmProjects/test_project/test_project/Main.py", line 20, in <module>
driver.find_element_by_id("addSearchEngine").click()
File "C:\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 360, in find_element_by_id
return self.find_element(by=By.ID, value=id_)
File "C:\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 978, in find_element
'value': value})['value']
File "C:\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="addSearchEngine"]"}
(Session info: chrome=75.0.3770.142)

chrome://settings/searchEngines has Shadow DOM elements . You will need to use the driver.execute_script() to get handle of the shadowRoot element and ultimately get to the 'addSearchEngine' element.
Example python : shadowRoot python
Example Java : For chrome://downloads/ shadowRoot java

Refer to this post for detailed explanation.
In your case you can do the below.
url = "chrome://settings/searchEngines"
driver.get(url)
addButton = driver.execute_script("return document.querySelector('settings-ui')"
".shadowRoot.querySelector('#main')"
".shadowRoot.querySelector('settings-basic-page.showing-subpage')"
".shadowRoot.querySelector('settings-search-page')"
".shadowRoot.querySelector('settings-search-engines-page')"
".shadowRoot.querySelector('#addSearchEngine')")
addButton.click()
Screenshot:

Error when scrolling in selenium with python

I am trying to scroll to the bottom of the page, as I usually do. But on this website it seems not to work. It's one of those where you need to scroll to the bottom in order to load new links.
This is the command I am using:
browser.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")
The error I am getting is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/somePathTo/someProgram.py", line 12, in <module>
browser.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);")
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 636, in execute_script
'args': converted_args})['value']
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Cannot read property 'offsetTop' of null
(Session info: chrome=73.0.3683.86)
(Driver info: chromedriver=72.0.3626.69 (3c16f8a135abc0d4da2dff33804db79b849a7c38),platform=Mac OS X 10.14.3 x86_64)
Any other scroll does not work as well, something is wrong with the JS script...
I don't know what element is null and therefore can't have the 'offsetTop' property... maybe I should identify some element that can have that property, but I don't know much more about JS than this script
EDIT:
I did solve my specific problem with this code
browser.execute_script('arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);', target)
where target is an element to the bottom. However, I would like to know what the issue is with the JS code.

Python Selenium cannot find an element on a page by xpath

I am using python and selenium to test some things with fantasy football. Here is my code so far (I just started).
import time
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\\Users\\202300Fontenot\\Desktop\\3\\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('http://games.espn.com/ffl/signin?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.espn.com%2Fffl%2Fclubhouse%3FseasonId%3D2018%26leagueId%3D49607%26teamId%3D4');
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
time.sleep(10)
search_box = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="did-ui-view"]/div/section/section/form/section/div[1]/div/label/span[2]/input')
search_box.send_keys('email#icloud.com')
search_box.submit()
time.sleep(5)
driver.quit()
This just tries to enter an email address into the box. I am getting this error every time:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\202300Fontenot\Desktop\3\ESPN.py", line 8, in <module>
search_box = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="did-ui-view"]/div/section/section/form/section/div[1]/div/label/span[2]/input')
File "C:\Users\202300Fontenot\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 393, in find_element_by_xpath
return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
File "C:\Users\202300Fontenot\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 966, in find_element
'value': value})['value']
File "C:\Users\202300Fontenot\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 320, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\202300Fontenot\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[#id="did-ui-view"]/div/section/section/form/section/div[1]/div/label/span[2]/input"}
(Session info: chrome=69.0.3497.92)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591088 (7b2b2dca23cca0862f674758c9a3933e685c27d5),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64)
Thanks for your help.

Your problem is that the input you are trying to select exists inside of an iframe. You must first tell the driver to switch to the iframe and then execute the xpath selection.
driver.switch_to.frame("disneyid-iframe")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[#type='email']").send_keys('email#icloud.com')

First of all you need to switch to your iframe using its name:
disneyid-iframe
Also if XPATH is not the only choice, you may use the CSS Selector:
div.field-username-email input[type='email']
This will get the driver to find & fill your field.

Using XPath in python You need to provide the string for
driver.find_element_by_xpath
Example Code below
("//*[#id=\"did-ui-view\"]/div/section/section/form/section/div[1]/div/label/span[2]/input")
Please refer below document regarding String
String Gude first Para

Python, Variables in 2 files and selenium

I’ve created the main.py and the login.py, then I tried to link the 2 files together. I don’t know how to correctly link these 2 files.
I’m using selenium and the program works, but it opens 2 chrome windows (When I want to open just one) then, the second one goes ahead and works perfectly but when it stops to do the login file suddently this error comes:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/alebu/PycharmProjects/selenium/Main.py", line 9, in <module>
Login.login()
File "C:\Users\alebu\PycharmProjects\selenium\Login.py", line 6, in login
Main.browser.find_element_by_link_text('Log in').click()
File "C:\Users\alebu\PycharmProjects\selenium\venv\lib\site-
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 419, in
find_element_by_link_text
return self.find_element(by=By.LINK_TEXT, value=link_text)
File "C:\Users\alebu\PycharmProjects\selenium\venv\lib\site-
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 955, in find_element
'value': value})['value']
File "C:\Users\alebu\PycharmProjects\selenium\venv\lib\site-
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 312, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\alebu\PycharmProjects\selenium\venv\lib\site-
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in
check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"Log in"}
(Session info: chrome=64.0.3282.167)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.35.528161
(5b82f2d2aae0ca24b877009200ced9065a772e73),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299
x86_64)
Process finished with exit code 1
probably I’ve done something wrong with the variables
the main.py
from selenium import webdriver
import Login
driver_location = "C:\webDrivers\chromedriver.exe"
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--lang=en')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=driver_location,
chrome_options=options)
Login.login()
the login.py
def login():
import Main
from time import sleep
Main.browser.get('https://www.instagram.com')
Main.browser.find_element_by_link_text('Log in').click()
Main.browser.find_element_by_name('username').send_keys('*******')
Main.browser.find_element_by_name('password').send_keys(********')
Main.browser.find_element_by_xpath('//form/span/button[text()="Log
in"]').click()
sleep(3)
Main.browser.find_element_by_link_text('Not Now').click()
sleep(2)
print("Logged In")
The weird thing is: before the program was in one unique file and it worked perfectly.

I would suggest you read some material on how import works in python here.
to get what you have working properly quickly, you should not import Main in your login function. Try passing the driver as an argument in your login function as so (Note: after passing the browser as an argument and not importing Main, you will no longer need to use Main.browser, just browser):
from time import sleep
def login(browser):
browser.get('https://www.instagram.com')
Then when you go to call login from your main, you will want to pass browser as an argument:
Login.login(browser)
This should fix the problem you were having with two browsers opening. If the issue is still occurring with the Log in link not found please read this and ask a new question if you have a clear understanding of how it works and require more help.