Error: 'value': keys_to_typing(value)} while sending keys selenium python

Question

I am trying to login into website using selenium but i am getting errors while sending username and password to the website:

code:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(
executable_path='../chromedriver')

driver.get('https://secure.imdb.com/ap/signin?openid.pape.max_auth_age=0&openid.return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fap-signin-handler&openid.identity=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.assoc_handle=imdb_pro_us&openid.mode=checkid_setup&siteState=eyJvcGVuaWQuYXNzb2NfaGFuZGxlIjoiaW1kYl9wcm9fdXMiLCJyZWRpcmVjdFRvIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9wcm8uaW1kYi5jb20vdjIvbmFtZS9ubTM0NzUyMDk_cmY9Y29uc19ubV9tZXRlciZyZWZfPW5tX3B1Yl91cHNsYl9sb2dpbiJ9&openid.claimed_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0&imdbPageAction=login')
driver.find_element_by_id("ap_email").send_keys("username")
driver.find_element_by_id("ap_password").send_keys("pass")
driver.find_element_by_id("signInSubmit").click()

it is giving error:

driver.find_element_by_id("ap_email").send_keys("username") File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 479, in send_keys 'value': keys_to_typing(value)})

chrome version:

chrome=70.0.3538.77

chrome driver version:

chromedriver=2.43.600229

how to resolve this ?

Answer 1

As I can see, you cannot handle authentication form without clicking "Log in with IMDb" link. Try to click it before sending keys:

# driver.find_element_by_id('login_with_imdb_expender').click()
driver.find_element_by_link_text('Log in with IMDb').click()
driver.find_element_by_id("ap_email").send_keys("username")
driver.find_element_by_id("ap_password").send_keys("pass")

Answer 2

As per the IMDb website before sending the character strings to Email and Custom password field you have to click on the link with text as Log in with IMDb inducing WebDriverWait and you can use the following solution:

Code Block:

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

options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("disable-infobars")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://secure.imdb.com/ap/signin?openid.pape.max_auth_age=0&openid.return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fap-signin-handler&openid.identity=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.assoc_handle=imdb_pro_us&openid.mode=checkid_setup&siteState=eyJvcGVuaWQuYXNzb2NfaGFuZGxlIjoiaW1kYl9wcm9fdXMiLCJyZWRpcmVjdFRvIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9wcm8uaW1kYi5jb20vdjIvbmFtZS9ubTM0NzUyMDk_cmY9Y29uc19ubV9tZXRlciZyZWZfPW5tX3B1Yl91cHNsYl9sb2dpbiJ9&openid.claimed_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0&imdbPageAction=login')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='a-expander-prompt']/span[@id='login_with_imdb_expender']"))).click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='a-input-text a-span12 auth-autofocus auth-required-field' and @id='ap_email']"))).send_keys("aravind_reddy")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@class='a-input-text a-span12 auth-required-field' and @id='ap_password']").send_keys("aravind_reddy")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@class='a-button-input' and @id='signInSubmit']").click()