Python selenium unable to find whatsapp web textarea by xpath

Question

I'm building a whatsapp automation script using python selenium. I'm unable to find the message text area to send message.

My code :

from selenium import webdriver
import pandas as pd
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
import os
import mysql.connector



driver = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/evilslab/Downloads/chromedriver 3')

driver.get('https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone=0097155960&text&source&data&app_absent')

time.sleep(10)
text = "Hello testing"
inp_xpath = '//*[@id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[2]'
input_box = driver.find_element_by_xpath(inp_xpath)
time.sleep(2)
input_box.send_keys(text + Keys.ENTER)
time.sleep(2)

The terminal is :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/evilslab/Documents/Websites/www.futurepoint.dev.cc/dobuyme/classy/whatsapp-selenium.py", line 18, in <module>
    input_box = driver.find_element_by_xpath(inp_xpath)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 394, in find_element_by_xpath
    return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 976, in find_element
    return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[2]"}
  (Session info: chrome=81.0.4044.138)

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '20 at 06:58

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May be your xpath is wrong. When I inspect and get xpath I get //*[@id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]

answered May 13 '20 at 06:58

Tek Nath Acharya

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Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]"} Still same issue ! – sam_unrelax May 13 '20 at 08:14
try using other selectors. – Tek Nath Acharya May 13 '20 at 09:32
What selector?? – sam_unrelax May 13 '20 at 09:39
Sorry. Try using other locators. Seems class `_2S1VP` is used for test boxes. – Tek Nath Acharya May 13 '20 at 09:42
can you help me to do – sam_unrelax May 14 '20 at 04:48

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 07 '22 at 08:39

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i guess there is a problem with the xpath find how to get specific xpath from here Is there a way to get the XPath in Google Chrome? , sometimes whatsapp change their class name

answered Jun 07 '22 at 08:39

christmex

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Python selenium unable to find whatsapp web textarea by xpath

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