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Reputation: 1832

Making Selenium click Instagram followers button throws error "can't find element"

I'm trying to make a simple C# program which will give me a list of followers of my public profile. I managed to get the driver connect to the provided URL and now I'm trying to click on the Followers button but get the exception:

OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: 'no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".\-nal3"}

I read in another SO post about having to wait for the page to load before trying to click the element but the solution doesn't work for me (org.openqa.selenium.ElementClickInterceptedException: element click intercepted error using Selenium and Java in headless mode).

My code so far:

public void Run(string profileName)
{
    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.AddArgument("--headless");
    options.AddArgument("--no-sandbox");
    options.AddArgument("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
    options.AddArgument("start-maximized");
    options.AddArgument("--remote-debugging-port=9222");
    IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

    string url = "http://www.instagram.com/" + profileName + "/";

    driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);

    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
    IWebElement followersButton = wait.Until(driver => driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("-nal3")));

    followersButton.Click();
}

I've also tried finding the element by the XPath with the same result.

What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE: I've created a separate string variable in my code to easily debug and see the source of the page which is returned and then opened Visual Studio's HTML Visualizer and it shows a page which says some active elements were restricted. How can I enable them in my code? enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 203

Answers (1)

JD2775
JD2775

Reputation: 3801

The problem is there are 3 of those -nal3 Class Names on that page, one for posts, followers, and following

Try this XPath instead, to narrow it down to just the followers link:

//ul[@class='k9GMp ']/li[2]/a

Upvotes: 0

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