Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".recaptcha-checkbox-border"}

Question

I am trying to bypass the captcha verification using Selenium but I keep getting this error

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".recaptcha-checkbox-border"}

I have already tried using sleep(20) and it doesn't work. Here is the link that I am trying to bypass captcha on: https://whitepages.co.nz/ycaptcha?next=%2Fwhite-all%2Fhalswell%2Fchristchurch%2F

Please let me know if I am making a mistake in the the selector class or anything.

Answer 1

The reCAPTCHA 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 either of the following Locator Strategies:

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

    driver.get("https://whitepages.co.nz/ycaptcha?next=%2Fwhite-all%2Fhalswell%2Fchristchurch%2F")
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[src^='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/anchor']")))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.recaptcha-checkbox-border"))).click()
    

  • Using XPATH:

    driver.get("https://whitepages.co.nz/ycaptcha?next=%2Fwhite-all%2Fhalswell%2Fchristchurch%2F")
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[starts-with(@src, 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/anchor')]")))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='recaptcha-checkbox-border']"))).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
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• Ways to deal with #document under iframe
• Switch to an iframe through Selenium and python
• Selenium “selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException” when using Chrome
• How to interact with the reCAPTCHA audio element using Selenium and Python
• Find the reCAPTCHA element and click on it — Python + Selenium