Unable to use Selenium to automate Chase site logi

Question

When I try to log into the Chase website using Selenium (Python), I'm hit with the following error message:

However, using "human" login works fine. It seems that when Selenium finds an element it triggers the issue.

Am I missing something? I've tried to find the answer on stackoverflow but to no avail.

Update:

The expected result is that the script would successfully allow me to login programatically.

Here's the code sample below:

import time
import os

from selenium import webdriver

CHASE_USER_ID = os.getenv('CHASE_USER_ID', None)
CHASE_PASSWORD = os.getenv('CHASE_PASSWORD', None)

assert CHASE_USER_ID is not None, 'Chase user id not set'
assert CHASE_PASSWORD is not None, ' Chase password not set'


def main():
    chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'./chromedriver', chrome_options=chrome_options)

    try:
        driver.get('https://secure07c.chase.com/web/auth/#/logon/logon/chaseOnline?')

        time.sleep(2)

        user_element = driver.find_element_by_id('userId-input-field')  # Finding an element here seems to make the login process fail 
        user_element.send_keys(CHASE_USER_ID)

        password_element = driver.find_element_by_id('password-input-field')
        password_element.send_keys(CHASE_PASSWORD)

        time.sleep(2)

        password_element.submit()

        time.sleep(10)
    finally:
        driver.quit()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Answer 1

I took your code and simplified the structure and ran the test with minimal lines of code as follows:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait


options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://secure07c.chase.com/web/auth/#/logon/logon/chaseOnline?")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.jpui.input.logon-xs-toggle.clientSideError"))).send_keys("jsmiao")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input.jpui.input.logon-xs-toggle#password-input-field").send_keys("hello")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button#signin-button>span.label").click()

Similarly, as per your observation I have hit the same roadblock with the error as:

It seems the click() on the element with text as Sign in does happens. Though the username / password lookup is initiated but the process is interupted. While inspecting the DOM Tree of the webpage you will find that some of the <script> tag refers to JavaScripts having keyword dist. As an example:

• <script src="https://static.chasecdn.com/web/library/blue-boot/dist/2.20.3/blue-boot/js/main-ver.js"></script>
• <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" async="" data-requirecontext="_" data-requiremodule="blue-vendor/main" src="https://static.chasecdn.com/web/library/blue-vendor/dist/2.11.1/blue-vendor/js/main.js"></script>
• <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" async="" data-requirecontext="_" data-requiremodule="blue/main" src="https://static.chasecdn.com/web/library/blue-core/dist/2.16.3/blue/js/main.js"></script>
• <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" async="" data-requirecontext="_" data-requiremodule="blue-app/main" src="https://static.chasecdn.com/web/library/blue-app/dist/2.15.1/blue-app/js/main.js"></script>

Which is a clear indication that the website is protected by Bot Management service provider Distil Networks and the navigation by ChromeDriver gets detected and subsequently blocked.

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Distil

As per the article There Really Is Something About Distil.it...:

Distil protects sites against automatic content scraping bots by observing site behavior and identifying patterns peculiar to scrapers. When Distil identifies a malicious bot on one site, it creates a blacklisted behavioral profile that is deployed to all its customers. Something like a bot firewall, Distil detects patterns and reacts.

Further,

"One pattern with **Selenium** was automating the theft of Web content", Distil CEO Rami Essaid said in an interview last week. "Even though they can create new bots, we figured out a way to identify Selenium the a tool they're using, so we're blocking Selenium no matter how many times they iterate on that bot. We're doing that now with Python and a lot of different technologies. Once we see a pattern emerge from one type of bot, then we work to reverse engineer the technology they use and identify it as malicious".

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Reference

You can find a couple of detailed discussion in:

• Can a website detect when you are using selenium with chromedriver?
• Chrome browser initiated through ChromeDriver gets detected