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How to click facebook message button - JanelleGuthrie - May-13-2020

Tried these lines, but did not work. Need help

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as W
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as E
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from time import sleep    
import pandas as pd
import re

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id='u_ps_fetchstream_3_1_5']").click())
driver.find_element_by_link_text('Message')



RE: How to click facebook message button - ndc85430 - May-13-2020

You're going to need to give more details. What exactly does "did not work" mean? What's happening and what are you expecting to happen? What exactly is your end goal?


RE: How to click facebook message button - Larz60+ - May-14-2020

You're missing a lot of setup code,
you have to:
  • Start browser
  • fetch url
  • your code goes here
  • close browser