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I am trying to automate reading my phone bill from the carrier website. www.fido.ca

However, the site is built with angularjs and I can't find the element using python and selenium webdriver. Please see below for the codes I've tried.

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
url = 'https://www.fido.ca/pages/#/login?m=login'
driver.get(url)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[@id='BC']")))

It returns selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Note: I can see the element from the front end, but no idea why webdriver can't see it.

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It looks like you aren't logging in though. Or does the webdriver essentially get your current firefox session? – Mahendran Nadesan 19 hours ago
    
Yes, I am trying to bypass the region select modal pop up first. Stuck at that right now. – Stanley Li 12 hours ago
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When you navigate to a page, you would see the overlay "Welcome to Fido!" screen which makes your desired element invisible - hence the timeout error.

Handle the screen by selecting a region and clicking "Continue" or "X" (close).

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That is what I am trying to do by waiting to see the 'BC' element for me to select. But Python can't see that element. Don't know why. – Stanley Li 12 hours ago

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