AttributeError: module 'selenium.webdriver.firefox' has no attribute 'find_element_by_name' using Selenium through Python

Question

from selenium import webdriver
drivers = webdriver.firefox
elem = drivers.find_element_by_name("username")

So above is the script I wrote but every time I run it returns this error message:

AttributeError: module 'selenium.webdriver.firefox' has no attribute 'find_element_by_name'

Thank you it work, i was calling the module the way it was written in the folder. I didn't know I had to capitalize it. — DigitalSaf, Jan 16 '20 at 04:28

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2020-01-14T09:42:05.587

This error message...

AttributeError: module 'selenium.webdriver.firefox' has no attribute 'find_element_by_name'

...implies that the selenium.webdriver.firefox has no attribute as find_element_by_name.

You need to consider a couple of things as follows:

To initialize a Firefox session you need to change the line of code drivers = webdriver.firefox into proper format as:
```
drivers = webdriver.Firefox()
```
find_element_by_name() method can locate the element only when the HTML DOM is loaded. So, you need to invoke get(url) and load the DOM Tree before invoking find_element_by_name() as follows:
```
drivers.get("http://digitalsaf.com/")
```

Your effective code block will be:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://digitalsaf.com/")
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("username")

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