Selenium firefox does not work at cvs.com

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I have tried to input my user name at this site using Selenium. The name input works OK. My application ends with name input. I manually click the Continue button. The password entry box should appear. Instead, I notice that something went wrong. I presume that the web page somehow detects that a real person is not inputting. Is there a way around this?

What I have tried:

I don't know to try anything more.

Posted 1-Sep-23 4:59am

BobbyStrain

Updated 13-Sep-23 4:13am

Deeksha Shenoy

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Solution 1

No there is no way round it. Websites control what you can and cannot do with their web pages.

Posted 1-Sep-23 6:30am

Richard MacCutchan

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2023-09-01T13:28:00

Solution 2

It's not working because the email address input box is part of the original page you downloaded. The password box doesn't exist until you enter an email address and click the continue button.

The problem is that password box is in a partial HTML page that is downloaded BY THE EXECUTION OF JAVASCRIPT on the original page. Selenium isn't executing the javascript so you never get the password HTML.

Google for "Selenium execute javascript" to see if there's something you can use.

Posted 1-Sep-23 13:28pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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BobbyStrain 1-Sep-23 19:51pm

Thank you, Dave. I'll see if I can fix it. I don't understand why CVS.com won't use the address and password that are stored in Firefox.

Dave Kreskowiak 2-Sep-23 10:36am

Because the problem isn't CVS.com, it's the code in the browser that fills in the details. The password box isn't following any kind of "standard" that browser can use to find the password box, like it doesn't exist at all!

BobbyStrain 2-Sep-23 10:59am

Thank you. So when I fix the javascript execution will it work?

Dave Kreskowiak 2-Sep-23 11:26am

This is where you try, experiment, diagnose, make changes, ... and find out.