How to interact with the reCAPTCHA Solve the challenge button using Selenium and Python

Question

I'm trying to interact with the recaptcha Solve the challenge button on image verification popup using Selenium and Python.

The xpath looks correct in dev tools but using Selenium unable to interact with it. What is the problem?

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//button[contains(@id, "solver-button")]'))).click()

Answer 1

Once you click on the recptcha and get redirected to the image challenges, the picture elements are within another sibling <iframe>. So you have to:

• Switch back to the default_content().

• 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 the following Locator Strategies:

• Code Block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
  options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:WebDriverschromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo")
  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[src^='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/anchor']")))
  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span#recaptcha-anchor"))).click()
  driver.switch_to.default_content()
  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"//iframe[@title='recaptcha challenge']")))
  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@id='solver-button']"))).click()
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• How to interact with the reCAPTCHA audio element using Selenium and Python
• How to send text to the Password field within https://mail.protonmail.com registration page?

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Outro

Ways to deal with #document under iframe