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Samir
Samir

Reputation: 19

Send file via whatsapp from Python

I was trying to send one file using Python Selenium web driver. But I am not able to locate the send button using python. I can see below HTML using inspect:

Also my web whatsapp screen is not progressing after file send screen Whatsapp web screen shot

I used below code:

fileToSend = file
#Get whatsapp contact
WebDriverWait(driver, wait).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.jN-F5')))
search = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.jN-F5')
search.send_keys(user + Keys.ENTER)
# click to add
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span[data-icon="clip"]').click()
# add file to send by file path
attach=driver.find_element_by_css_selector('input[type="file"]')
attach.send_keys(fileToSend) 
send=self.driver.find_element_by_class_name('yavlE')

Below is html source code :

 <div role="button" class="_3hV1n yavlE">
        <span data-icon="send-light" class="">
            <svg id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 28 24" width="28" height="24">
                <path fill="#FFF" d="M5.101 21.757L27.8 12.028 5.101 2.3l.011 7.912 13.623 1.816-13.623 1.817-.011 7.912z"></path>
            </svg>
        </span>
    </div>

Please help.

Thanks, Samir

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6574

Answers (1)

Ali
Ali

Reputation: 1689

You are using the wrong class name in the below step : 

self.driver.find_element_by_class_name('yavlE')

Replace the above line with the below locator and try again : 

self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[contains(@class, 'yavlE')]");

Still you are getting NoSuchElementException then try to give some delay like below :

from time import sleep
sleep(3)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[contains(@class, 'yavlE')]");

I hope it works...

Upvotes: 2

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