(Jan 5, 2018 01:50 AM)ThatAlbinoFrog Wrote:  Hey guys

I'm really close to finishing my youtube mass commenter, but I'm stuck on one part, which is getting the webbrowser to click and write the comment in the comment box. 
I can't seem to use the elementID to invoke a click on it, because I'm not really sure what the ID is for the comment box.

Here's what I think I need to do - 

Code

WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("COMMENT BOX ID").InvokeMember("Click")
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("COMMENT BOX ID").SetAttribute("Value", "This is a comment")
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("SUBMIT BUTTON ID").InvokeMember("Click")

Any figuring out how to do this would be greatly appreciated. I've already successfully made the webbrowser login to youtube with that same method ^^

Thanks!

(Jan 5, 2018 01:50 AM)ThatAlbinoFrog Wrote:  I can't seem to use the elementID to invoke a click on it, because I'm not really sure what the ID is for the comment box.

(Jan 5, 2018 03:42 PM)System[X] Wrote:  If you have already made a login for youtube using webbrowser then you probably know the answer i am going to give you.

Look at the source code and inspect the elements to find either id, name or even the tag of the comment box. if you then still can not figure it out post just the section of the source code for the comment box so that we can take a look and help you further.

Thanks

(Jan 5, 2018 05:15 PM)Ninja Wrote:  Uhm. Right click the comment box in your browser and click "Inspect Element" maybe?

(Jan 5, 2018 09:36 PM)ThatAlbinoFrog Wrote:  Hey, thanks for the help.  SystemX was right about me knowing what to do, but after inspecting the element and putting the ID in the code it doesn't seem to work

Here's the inspect element -
https://imgur.com/a/9scES

I've tried

WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("Comment-Simplebox-Create-Comment").InvokeMember("Click")

But that doesn't work. There are so many elements there that I don't know which one to use.

If someone could launch up IE and go to youtube and try to figure it out, it would be greatly appreciated.

(using IE because webbrowser uses IE, and youtube is different from IE to chrome)

(Jan 5, 2018 10:47 PM)Ninja Wrote:  I get "placeholder-area" before clicking, and "textarea" after clicking.

(Jan 6, 2018 12:28 AM)ThatAlbinoFrog Wrote:  WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("placeholder-area").InvokeMember("Click")

Returns with error - 

System.Windows.Forms.HtmlDocument.GetElementById(...) returned Nothing.


Are you using IE? Because youtube is different from IE to chrome and webbrowser uses IE

(Jan 6, 2018 04:40 AM)Ninja Wrote:  I am using FireFox. But the HTML source should be the same. How about you print the WebBrowser source to a file and then find the element from there? Did you even try debugging your problem at all?

(Jan 6, 2018 05:07 AM)ThatAlbinoFrog Wrote:   How is getting the pages' source code going to help?

(Jan 6, 2018 06:32 AM)RiperFish Wrote:  try use this ID : "labelAndInputContainer", if not try this one :"creation-box" or "input-container"

(Jan 6, 2018 07:26 AM)ThatAlbinoFrog Wrote:  No luck, all return with the same sort of error -

System.Windows.Forms.HtmlDocument.GetElementById(...) returned Nothing.

(Jan 6, 2018 07:26 AM)ThatAlbinoFrog Wrote:  System.Windows.Forms.HtmlDocument.GetElementById(...) returned Nothing.

(Jan 6, 2018 01:53 PM)Ninja Wrote:  Are you blind or just stupid? I told you the solution TWICE now. You just completely ignored my post and refused to take my suggestion.

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I willl say this one more time. You keep getting errors that the element is not found. So what you need to do is get the source of the page from the webbrowser in your application to check the element id of the comment box. If you refuse to do this, and I told you this 3 times already, then you don't deserve to get more help.