How to make post on Facebook using Selenium Webdriver + Java?

Question

How to make post on Facebook using Selenium Webdriver + Java?

This window. http://prntscr.com/i603dv

My code:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='email']")).sendKeys("me-email");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='pass']")).sendKeys("my-password");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[@id='loginbutton']")).click();
//here I turn off notifications        
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@action='cancel']")).click();

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
//with help of this code I can focus on window.
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//span[@class=\"uiIconText _5qtp\"])[1]"));
actions.doubleClick(element);

//Here I want to post text, but it doesn't work.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class=\"_1mf _1mj\"]")).sendKeys("Test");

Why it doesn't work? Then I press button Post but it doesn't work also.

Answer 1

The popup/window opens after double click . So you could try to switch to new popup using switch to window of webdriver. It should help . Here is a link of simple webdriver test which switch window http://learn-automation.com/handle-multiple-windows-in-selenium-webdriver/

Try to do the same for you . If you have any questions let me know .

Answer 2

"_1mf _1mj " is a complex class. Selenium won't work on complex classes.

You can try Action chain - press "tab" button multiple times until you reach to "post"

Also, Facebook provides a drop down option after pressing tab button . You can choose from the drop down what you want to do., Using selenium.

Alternatively try mbasic version of FB.