find_element(By.Name) driver method - Selenium Python

Selenium's Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provide a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out - Navigating links using get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as geeks for geeks, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task. 
This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_element_by_name() is discussed in this article
Syntax - 

driver.find_element(By.NAME, "name_of_element")

Example - 
For instance, consider this page source: 

Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using -  

login_form = driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'username')

 How to use driver.find_element_by_name() method in Selenium?

Let's try to practically implement this method and get an element instance for "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/". Let's try to grab search form input using its name "search". 
Create a file called run.py to demonstrate the find_element_by_name method - 

Now run using - 

Python run.py

First, it will open the firefox window with geeks for geeks, and then select the element and print it on the terminal as shown below. 
Browser Output 

👁 find_element-driver-method-Selenium-Python

Terminal Output - 
 

👁 terminal-output-find_element-method-Python-selenium

 

More locators for locating single elements

.math-table { border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; } .math-table td { border: 1px solid #5fb962; text-align: left !important; padding: 8px; } .math-table th { border: 1px solid #5fb962; padding: 8px; } .math-table tr>th{ background-color: #c6ebd9; vertical-align: middle; } .math-table tr:nth-child(odd) { background-color: #ffffff; } 
 

Locators	Description
find_element_by_id	The first element with the id attribute value matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_name	The first element with the name attribute value matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_xpath	The first element with the xpath syntax matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_link_text	The first element with the link text value matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_partial_link_text	The first element with the partial link text value matching the location will be returned.
find_element_by_tag_name	The first element with the given tag name will be returned.
find_element_by_class_name	the first element with the matching class attribute name will be returned.
find_element_by_css_selector	The first element with the matching CSS selector will be returned.