使用 selenium 和 python 对 Instagram 上的帖子发表评论，但出现错误“元素不可交互”

Question

So basically, I'm using selenium to automate an instagram bot to comment on my friends posts to mess with them and to simply learn how to use selenium further.

I am using the driver.find_element_by_xpath for the username and password login just fine with the .send_keys() function but when I select the comment box and try to .send_keys() to it I recieve the aforementioned error. I assume this is a block by instagram to prevent this kind of behavior, but are there any workarounds?

        sleep(2)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/article/div[2]/section[3]/div/form/textarea')\
             .send_keys(msg)
        sleep(2)

Answer 1

You should have to use webdriver wait so element get ready to interact. Please take locator (xpath) should be correct or share html so I can make locator.

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

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 40).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/article/div[2]/section[3]/div/form/textarea")))
element.send_keys(msg)