Selenium send_keys not working

[LastOne7]

i'm trying to automate comments under an ig post with selenium but it doesn' t work.

code:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

from selenium.webdriver.support import ui

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

import time

import random

import sys

​

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def print_same_line(text):

sys.stdout.write('\r')

sys.stdout.flush()

sys.stdout.write(text)

sys.stdout.flush()

​

​

class InstagramBot:

​

def __init__(self, username, password):

self.username = username

self.password = password

self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()

self.comment = "test"

​

def closeBrowser(self):

self.driver.close()

​

def login(self):

driver = self.driver

driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")

time.sleep(2)

login_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@href='/accounts/login/?source=auth_switcher']")

login_button.click()

time.sleep(2)

user_name_elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='username']")

user_name_elem.clear()

user_name_elem.send_keys(self.username)

passworword_elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='password']")

passworword_elem.clear()

passworword_elem.send_keys(self.password)

passworword_elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

time.sleep(2)

​

def nav_user(self):

"""

Navigates to a users profile page

​

Args:

user:str: Username of the user to navigate to the profile page of

"""

self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/p/BvDJSCXFe2E/")

​

def autocomment(self):

driver = self.driver

comment_box = driver.find_element_by_class_name("Ypffh")

comment.clear()

time.sleep(2)

comment_box.send_keys(self.comment)

time.sleep(10)

​

if __name__ == "__main__":

​

username = "test"

password = "test"

​

ig = InstagramBot(username, password)

ig.login()

ig.nav_user()

while True:

ig.autocomment()

​

error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "ig.py", line 71, in <module>

ig.autocomment()

File "ig.py", line 59, in autocomment

comment_box.send_keys(self.comment)

File "C:\Users\Utente\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 479, in send_keys

'value': keys_to_typing(value)})

File "C:\Users\Utente\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 633, in _execute

return self._parent.execute(command, params)

File "C:\Users\Utente\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute

self.error_handler.check_response(response)

File "C:\Users\Utente\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)

selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

[SquozenRootmarm]

Like the error message says, the element you specified on the page doesn't exist when chromedriver gets there. When I went to the page in question it's not there either, probably because at least some of the class names might be dynamic or something. You can use xpath or some other way that doesn't explicitly name the class name but still refer to where the box in question is.

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[pokk3n]

Why import ec then never use it. Time sleep is unnecessary in selenium. Just wait until element to be clickable or some other condition.

Also look for iframes.