无法使用硒在instagram的评论文本框中输入文本

Question

I found the xpath of the comment box for a said user's Instagram post, and wrote a code, but I'm unable to post a comment there. Here's what I used:

com = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/span/section/main/div/div/article/div[2]/section[3]/div/form/textarea')
com.click()
com.send_keys('Cool page!')
com.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

This is supposed to comment 'cool page!' on the comment box, but it does not. When I manually click in the comment box before this part of the program runs, it works just fine, and fills in 'cool page!' and hits submit, but without manually clicking the comment box, it does nothing. I don't know how I would make it work.

EDIT. HTML code by request: https://pastebin.com/trfkyQ4P HTML text area:

> <textarea aria-label="Add a comment…" placeholder="Add a comment…"
> class="Ypffh" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" style="height:
> 18px;"></textarea>

Answer 1

You may need to check your xpath.

Try using the below xpath.

 //textarea[contains(@aria-label,'Add a comment')]