Headless mode cannot find element error? - bug with newer Chrome versions [fixed]

[prashanttrivedi47]

Script running in alpine image docker container
running in chromium headless mode

can not find a xpath -
eg 1. r.type('/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/form/span/section/div/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/input', '[email protected]'))
eg 2.
r.type('//*[@id="identifierId"]', '[email protected]')

=> this return a False and error
=>r.init() and r.url('https://www.google.com') returns True

[RPA][ERROR] - cannot find /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/form/span/section/div/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/input

Can you please tell me that why r.type() is returning a error ?

Note: script running normally in ubuntu but not in container docker

[Dka233]

I don't think this is the better way to find the place in website to write your '[email protected]'. For example, if you want to write something in the comment box in GitHub you should write:

r.type('//*[@id="new_comment_field"]', '[email protected]') as you write in your eg2.

If you are getting an error maybe it is because your form is inside of an iframe, I had this kind of problem.

Regards.

[prashanttrivedi47]

I don't think this is the better way to find the place in website to write your '[email protected]'. For example, if you want to write something in the comment box in GitHub you should write:

r.type('//*[@id="new_comment_field"]', '[email protected]') as you write in your eg2.

If you are getting an error maybe it is because your form is inside of an iframe, I had this kind of problem.

Regards.

I have run in local ubuntu It is running fine but problem in alpine docker container
I was try to run in headless mode but r.type() return an error as you seen above, I think chromium issue is their
may be some driver issue till now I am unable to find ...

[fi-do]

Hey @prashanttrivedi47,
can you give the following hack a try?

Hope it will help you,
fi-do

[prashanttrivedi47]

Hey @prashanttrivedi47,
can you give the following hack a try?

Hope it will help you,
fi-do

I have already tried , I have changed from chrome to headless but didn't work

[kensoh]

Thanks @prashanttrivedi47 for raising this! The package is not designed to run headless mode, but this should be fixed.

I believe this is likely due to a bug in newer Chrome version. When it runs in headless mode, one of the parameters used can no longer support calling a relative directory but the absolute directory to the TagUI Chrome user profile is now required.

More details on the issue - aisingapore/TagUI#890

Can you try make the following changes to your tagui file to see if that works. In a future release this will be fixed.

aisingapore/TagUI@3da665f

The tagui file that you want to modify is ~/.tagui/src/tagui (where ~ is your user home directory)

[kensoh]

This is fixed in v1.31, available with pip install rpa --upgrade