Logging Facebook using selenium

Question

I know this is a not a proper technical question, but i am facing problem while using selenium to make a facebook post bot. This is my code so far

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Answer 1

Here is the sample code block to access the Facebook Login Page, login through a valid set of credentials and type in "Hie" in the Status Box using xpath as well as css_selector:

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Using XPATH :

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='email']").send_keys("email@domain.com")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='pass']").send_keys("password")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[starts-with(@id, 'u_0_')][@value='Log In']").click()
print(driver.title)
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[starts-with(@id, 'u_0_')]//textarea[@name='xhpc_message']")))
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[starts-with(@id, 'u_0_')]//textarea[@name='xhpc_message']").send_keys("Hie")
print("Typed Hie within Facebook Status Box")

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Using CSS_SELECTOR :

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input#email").send_keys("email@domain.com")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input#pass").send_keys("password")
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[id^='u_0_'][value='Log In']").click()
print(driver.title)
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[id^='u_0_'] textarea[name=xhpc_message]")))
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div[id^='u_0_'] textarea[name=xhpc_message]").send_keys("Hie")
print("Typed Hie within Facebook Status Box")