no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[name="q"]"}

[rgaufman]

When I launch the map, it opens a browser window and I see this:

$ python3 script.py --query="Hairdressers" --places="WC2N"
Moving on to WC2N
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/hackeron/google-maps-businesses-scraper/script.py", line 6, in <module>
    scrape(args)
  File "/Users/hackeron/google-maps-businesses-scraper/modules/scraper.py", line 67, in scrape
    q_input = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 496, in find_element_by_name
    return self.find_element(by=By.NAME, value=name)
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 976, in find_element
    return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[name="q"]"}
  (Session info: chrome=89.0.4389.128)

Any ideas?

[nyolcaserno]

Did you find the solution? I have the same problem. Thanks! :)

[nyolcaserno]

Looking for these lines in screper.py file:

for place in SETTINGS["PLACES"]:

Go to the index page

    driver.get(SETTINGS["MAPS_INDEX"])

Add to this: time.sleep (4) elem = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#yDmH0d > c-wiz > div > div > div > div.NIoIEf > div.G4njw > div.AIC7ge > form > div.lssxud > div > button") elem.click()
time.sleep (5)

[Jackahack]

that is also out of date and i am having trouble to get the correct button selector. when i try to put in the button selector it gives the error not interactable

[sakshamahluwalia]

This works as of Feb 2, 2022:

q_input = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "q")
q_input.send_keys(query, Keys.ENTER)