selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException：消息：在使用 Selenium 调用 Instagram 中的关注者链接时，没有此类元素错误

Question

I am building an Instagram bot using selenium, and I want to click on my followers to open the complete list of followers. The problem is, I always get the following error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element

I tried locating the element by its Xpath, class name and CSS selector but neither of those worked. I found a post that recommended the following method, which also did not work:

driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("followers").click()

The strangest part is, once the DevTools are open in the same browser, all of the methods I used worked, ie opened my list of followers. I am using Microsoft Edge Version 85.0.564.51 btw.

What am I missing here? If needed, I can provide more code.

Answer 1

• 1st method

The followers element in HTML code is an hyperlink tag :

<a class="-nal3 " href="/[PROFILE_ID]/followers/" tabindex="0"><span class="g47SY " title="237">237</span> followers</a>

You can actually go to this URL :

driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/[PROFILE_ID]/followers/")

• 2nd method

Your method should work with this xpath instead

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(.,'followers')]").click()

Answer 2

On instagram the link of followers is as follows:

<a class="-nal3 " href="/PCy/followers/" tabindex="0">
    <span class="g47SY " title="999">999</span> 
    " followers"
</a>

To click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies :

• Using CSS_SELECTOR :

   WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[href$='/followers/'] > span"))).click()

• Using XPATH :

   WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(., 'followers')]"))).click()

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

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