how to post in facebook using selenium webdriver and python

Question

I writen this code to post in facebook group from desktop program but it didnnot work. I'm using python and selenium webdriver in this script.

Can someone help me?

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import webDriverWait 

import unittest

class post(unittest.Testcase):

    def setUp(self):
            self.driver = webdriver.Firefox
            self.driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/<grouplink>")

    def test_shar(self):
        driver = self.driver
        grouppost  = "test"
        textid     = "xhpc_message_text"
        buttonid   = ".//*[@id='u_jsonp_25_s']/div/div[5]/div/ul/li[2]/button"
        fblogopath = "(//a[contains(@href, 'logo')])[1]"

        textfiledelemnt = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id(textid))
        sharebotton     = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(buttonid)

        textfiledelemnt.clear()
        textfiledelemnt.send_keys(grouppost)
        buttonid.click()
        WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(fblogopath)

    def tearDown(self):
            self.driver.quit()

if __name__ == '__main':
    unittest.main()

In what way did it not work? How far did it get? And do you need to be signed in to Facebook to post to this group? — user3468054, Mar 16 '15 at 10:57

Sagun Shrestha · Answer 1 · 2017-07-15T17:28:01.030

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def postInGroup(driver, group_url, text):
    driver.get(group_url)

    driver.find_element_by_name("xc_message").send_keys(text)
    driver.find_element_by_name("view_post").click()

This will work for mbasic version of Facebook i.e group_url = 'https://mbasic.facebook.com/your-group-link'

The rest is same.

edited Jul 15 '17 at 17:28

answered Jul 15 '17 at 07:00

Sagun Shrestha

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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I would suggest you not to rely to WebDriver for purpose such as one you mention.

Use Graph API, here are two good examples:

1) How do I update FB Status using Python & GraphAPI

2) Posting to Facebook wall

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Mar 16 '15 at 13:06

Johnny

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This doesn't address how to post to Groups. – Josh Usre Oct 24 '15 at 15:27
It's pretty much the same, just use Graph API https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.5/group – Johnny Oct 25 '15 at 14:06

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