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Reputation: 29

how to post in facebook using selenium webdriver and python

I writen this code to post in facebook group from desktop program but it didnnot work. I'm using python and selenium webdriver in this script.

Can someone help me?

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import webDriverWait 

import unittest

class post(unittest.Testcase):

    def setUp(self):
            self.driver = webdriver.Firefox
            self.driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/<grouplink>")

    def test_shar(self):
        driver = self.driver
        grouppost  = "test"
        textid     = "xhpc_message_text"
        buttonid   = ".//*[@id='u_jsonp_25_s']/div/div[5]/div/ul/li[2]/button"
        fblogopath = "(//a[contains(@href, 'logo')])[1]"

        textfiledelemnt = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id(textid))
        sharebotton     = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(buttonid)

        textfiledelemnt.clear()
        textfiledelemnt.send_keys(grouppost)
        buttonid.click()
        WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(fblogopath)

    def tearDown(self):
            self.driver.quit()

if __name__ == '__main':
    unittest.main()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6485

Answers (2)

Sagun Shrestha
Sagun Shrestha

Reputation: 1198

def postInGroup(driver, group_url, text):
    driver.get(group_url)

    driver.find_element_by_name("xc_message").send_keys(text)
    driver.find_element_by_name("view_post").click()

This will work for mbasic version of Facebook i.e group_url = 'https://mbasic.facebook.com/your-group-link'

The rest is same.

Upvotes: 1

Johnny
Johnny

Reputation: 15413

I would suggest you not to rely to WebDriver for purpose such as one you mention.

Use Graph API, here are two good examples:

1) How do I update FB Status using Python & GraphAPI

2) Posting to Facebook wall

Upvotes: -1

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