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Asked: 2026-06-14T22:10:51+00:00

When I tried to perform automated search on amazon.com, It throws exception ‘Element Not

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When I tried to perform automated search on amazon.com, It throws exception ‘Element Not Found’ even thought the element is present. I am trying to access search textbox by its ID.

Following are some observation of it:

  • Amazon search page has proper ID for search components But still Selenium was not able to locate the element, throws exception ‘Element Not Found’.
  • If you put some delay after loading the Amazon website, Then try to locate the element, throws exception ‘Window Not Found’.
  • When I tried to get the page source using Selenium Driver, It was not able fetch correct source also. I got the source of the html page which get displayed immediately after IE opened.

I suspect that amazon loads some javascript to prevent automated access, I am not sure.

Any suggestion would be appreciated to resolve this issue.

Please do share your experience if anyone faced such issue before.

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Works for me ..

    InternetExplorerDriver d1 = new InternetExplorerDriver();
d1.get("http://www.amazon.com/");
d1.findElementById("twotabsearchtextbox").sendKeys("cheese");
d1.quit;

    This opens the IE 8 window and types in cheese into the search box. Note : I am on webdriver 2.25 and have the latest IEDriver downloaded from here.

    Hope you have set the protected mode to enabled or same for all security zones in your IE settings.

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