Hi All!

I've spent days fighting this problem and have no ideas left. I've tried so many variations that my brain is jello. I need your help.

Background: my buddy does social media posts (Google My Business, Facebook, etc...) for local small businesses. He asked me if I could save him time by automating his postings (he manually submits the same info to multiple social media sites). I'm starting on Google My Business (GMB). Chrome headless doesn't seem to be able to save cookies between sessions (I think this is a bug in Chrome) so it requires a fresh login each time, but I can't get WWW:Mechanize::Chrome past the login screens. This is on CentOS 7.

I'm sending headless Chrome directly to the client's GMB dashboard URL. Because Chrome doesn't have the login cookie, it automatically redirects to a Google login page that asks for the username. I have Mechanize::Chrome typing the username and clicking the "Next" button. This works. Next, the password page loads. For the life of me, I cannot get Mechanize::Chrome to type the password in the password field. Instead, I get the error "No elements found for input with name Passwd".

This is the simplified version of the code I'm using:

...
my $response = $mech->get($url);
$mech->sleep(3);

# Click in Login Email form field
$mech->click({ xpath => '//*[@id="Email"]' });
$mech->field( Email => 'email-address@gmail.com' );
$mech->sleep(1);

$mech->click_button( name => 'signIn' );

# Give time for password page to load
$mech->sleep(5); 

# Click in Password field
$mech->click({ xpath => '//*[@id="Passwd"]' });
$mech->sleep(3);
# Enter Password
$mech->field( "Passwd" => 'password-for-account' );

$mech->sleep(1);
$logger->info("Clicking Sign in button");
$mech->click_button( name => 'signIn' );
...

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At the point where the password should be typed in, I get the error ("No elements found for input with name Passwd").
My first thought was that I mistyped the field id/name. I changed the code so that just before the password is entered, I did a $mech->content and printed it to the screen. It's long and has lots of javascript, but here's the form area part of it:

 <form novalidate="" method="post" action="https://accounts.google.com
+/signin/challenge/sl/password" id="gaia_loginform">
  <input name="Page" type="hidden" value="PasswordSeparationSignIn">
  <input type="hidden" name="GALX" value="XCHRh4ZpFTs">
  <input type="hidden" name="gxf" value="AFoagUWBRLTpTA7CO8g4iomkNYj8Z
+2_Srg:1535077371041">
  <input type="hidden" name="continue" value="https://business.google.
+com/dashboard/l/05764639469034420312?hl=en">
  <input type="hidden" name="followup" value="https://business.google.
+com/dashboard/l/05764639469034420312?hl=en">
  <input type="hidden" name="service" value="lbc">
  <input type="hidden" name="ltmpl" value="gmb">
  <input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en">
  <input type="hidden" name="flowName" value="GlifWebSignIn">
  <input id="profile-information" name="ProfileInformation" type="hidd
+en" value="APMTqumPnwp8RwQfcaP7K5ZZkvEM4k9SGAwLqlcvFtpTDSUdYojsxn8jb3
+83MAoLdkhH19NZwY69x9URqtxYlW4c-fuT3SpYTc1qDH10IRj9LotwfGWtglnfVHIQuji
+SbWKp5ZlE9I6AArll8PDt7ZFUVHvdWdB4r9Gb0su-Uam7NDMnu5D_UGYE-ZXcBvF8gYDO
+NQxKPQaKPlurzRgo6Z_b164OmDZvzboV0HV18nXomOpTlhyC-_PTjqXCgoE6D4YZ9ce3n
+NQTupcKhpE34Cm9TQ1U4ZMm9nbbmpvmtkRdzv_ABvnSz-RoG029IZXUitKau05A">
  <input id="session-state" name="SessionState" type="hidden" value="A
+EThLlyF4GA-jXD2WstIzKGAI0BfuPkitjcMBRlwIUoqykGrJ8kRaqTzKruu8YPuTb344L
+Z7ug09_rFlO2tXa6R8LLjE36haRK1e4tfOGscT3FF9CJG1S7Grp3QBpayMsCxNAgsWPfH
+T8Ixq4NDl8_bEbj-4b_etXrONPoG1Ijkhj8w1eOLNYF3oppfweXQzuIJ0acVhJlAfFXdM
+txQbLSsn7BDfzJqLeYb4VQfRD2P7-ALAENptqvHOPiMIDOjQTqCSUWpuzENh76jG9w3Wi
+N8LQ_34onYve2CQb0Zp1nyEXrhchWEYczkZLI3KMOtTSnnXYC_tcIY8uP2m8E3zqaLVcr
+bbe3d1mDSuD0siQNCnW-p8XPlnWwozE_AFFe_5vsVm2-sq4a9PWCgQu4s8kC1jasIp0f0
+q0h9xaAKbmXvEoT5yN7ISWaYXMF7mYML1Pi55rC4iB4EDBOK80OsbCgtXm39fBXyD9O9f
+C1wGMJW9L3EkvDauvmZ-RR372UDHGjvmbMmrwV1qdFiIjKa_ASoAkF9c2fxD2uXqbNVkd
+UREuGir4W_NiLD8EB0uQRCbNrep9xtLTOp1fY3cIHXF10wclZTvu59NAXI70Tu6CdWDft
+IcpuGQ80unAv1AoNV0nzHtyt3cdiPvmVxAcNa-xL4">
  <input type="hidden" id="_utf8" name="_utf8" value="&#9731;">
  <input type="hidden" name="bgresponse" id="bgresponse" value="js_dis
+abled">
  <a id="back-arrow" href="https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?co
+ntinue=https%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.google.com%2Fdashboard%2Fl%2F0576463946
+9034420312%3Fhl%3Den&amp;followup=https%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.google.com%2
+Fdashboard%2Fl%2F05764639469034420312%3Fhl%3Den&amp;service=lbc&amp;l
+tmpl=gmb&amp;hl=en&amp;flowName=GlifWebSignIn" class="back-arrow shif
+t-form">
  <img aria-label="Back" alt="Back" src="https://www.gstatic.com/image
+s/icons/material/system/1x/arrow_back_grey600_24dp.png">
  </a>
  <div class="form-panel second">
  <div class="slide-in ">
  <div>
  <p id="profile-name">(deleted)</p>
  <span dir="ltr" id="email-display">(deleted)</span>
  </div>
  <div>
  <div id="password-shown">
  <div>
  <input id="Email-hidden" name="Email" type="email" spellcheck="false
+" class="hidden" value="vnpagemanager@gmail.com" readonly="" autocomp
+lete="off">
<label class="hidden-label" for="Passwd">Password</label>
<input id="Passwd" name="Passwd" type="password" placeholder="Password
+" class="" autofocus="">
  </div>
  </div>
  </div>
<input id="signIn" name="signIn" class="rc-button rc-button-submit" ty
+pe="submit" value="Sign in">
  <label class="remember">
  <input id="PersistentCookie" name="PersistentCookie" type="checkbox"
+ value="yes" checked="checked">
  <span>
  Stay signed in
  </span>
  <div class="bubble-wrap" role="tooltip">
  <div class="bubble-pointer"></div>
  <div class="bubble">
  For your convenience, keep this checked. On shared devices, addition
+al precautions are recommended.
  <a href="https://support.google.com/accounts/?p=securesignin&amp;hl=
+en" target="_blank">Learn more</a>
  </div>
  </div>
  </label>
  <input type="hidden" name="rmShown" value="1">
  <a id="link-forgot-passwd" class="need-help" href="https://accounts.
+google.com/signin/recovery?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.google.com
+%2Fdashboard%2Fl%2F05764639469034420312%3Fhl%3Den&amp;service=lbc&amp
+;flowName=GlifWebSignIn&amp;Email=vnpagemanager%40gmail.com&amp;ignor
+eShadow=0&amp;hl=en">
  Forgot password?
  </a>
  </div>
  </div>
  </form>

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I'm using Opera to connect and view the page output using the Chrome remote debugging port. When I inspect the element for the password field, it also shows the field has the name/id 'Passwd'

Does Google have some type of code to block automated logins? Have I simply referenced the password field incorrectly with Mechanize::Chrome?

I'm a pretty mediocre programmer, so be gentle. I'm open to any ideas that will help me get through this.

Thanks!

In reply to Can't get past Google login with WWW::Mechanize::Chrome by lpowers

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