Unable to locate elements in Selenium (Python)

Solution 1:

This error message...

 UserWarning: find_element_by_* commands are deprecated. Please use find_element() instead
  warnings.warn("find_element_by_* commands are deprecated. Please use find_element() instead")

...implies that the find_element_by_* commands are now associated with a deprecation warning in the latest Selenium Python libraries.

This change is inline with the Selenium 4 Release Candidate 1 changelog which mentions:

Specify that the "find_element_by_* ..." warning is a deprecation warning (#9700)

Solution

Instead of find_element_by_* you have to use find_element(). As an example:

You need to add the following import:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

• Using xpath:

  driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='search']").click()
  

  Needs be replaced with:

  driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='search']").click()
  

Likewise you also have to consider the following changes:

• Using class_name:

  element = find_element_by_class_name("element_class_name")
  

  Needs be replaced with:

  element = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "element_class_name")
  

• Using id:

  element = find_element_by_id("element_id")
  

  Needs be replaced with:

  element = driver.find_element(By.ID, "element_id")
  

• Using name:

  element = find_element_by_name("element_name")
  

  Needs be replaced with:

  element = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "element_name")
  

• Using link_text:

  element = find_element_by_link_text("element_link_text")
  

  Needs be replaced with:

  element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "element_link_text")
  

• Using partial_link_text:

  element = find_element_by_partial_link_text("element_partial_link_text")
  

  Needs be replaced with:

  element = driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "element_partial_link_text")
  

• Using tag_name:

  element = find_element_by_tag_name("element_tag_name")
  

  Needs be replaced with:

  element = driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "element_tag_name")
  

• Using css_selector:

  element = find_element_by_css_selector("element_css_selector")
  

  Needs be replaced with:

  element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "element_css_selector")
  

tl; dr

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:

• Pull Request: Specify that the "find_element_by_* ..." warning is a deprecation warning
• Commit: Specify that the "find_element_by_* ..." warning is a deprecation warning

Solution 2:

As per your comment you are using selenium webdriver version 4.0.0a5 which is not stable though. There is the potential that features may be added/removed between this release. Can you switch back to 3.141.59 and give a try :

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\New folder\chromedriver.exe",chrome_options=chrome_options)
url = 'http://www.youtube.com'
driver.get(url)
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)

element = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//form[@id='search-form']//div[@id='container']//div[@id='search-input']//input")))

actionChains = ActionChains(driver)
actionChains.move_to_element(element).click().perform()
actionChains.move_to_element(element).send_keys("Test",Keys.RETURN).perform()

Note : please add below imports to your solution

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