[kookur]

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from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver = "C:\\Users\\hp\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")
name = input('Enter the name of the user or group')
msg = input('Type the message here')
count = int(input('Enter the count'))

user = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span@title = "{}"]'.format(name))
user.click()

msg_box = driver.find_element_by_class_name('_3pkkz copyable-area')

for i in range(count):
    msg_box.send_keys(msg)
    button = driver.find_element_by_class_name('_35EW6')
    button.click()

Error i'm getting :

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\hp\Desktop\whatsapp.py", line 9, in <module>
    user = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span@title = "{}"]'.format(name))
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 409, in find_elements_by_xpath
    return self.find_elements(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 995, in find_elements
    'value': value})['value'] or []
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 320, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector: Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression //span@title = "shyam"] because of the following error:
SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '//span@title = "shyam"]' is not a valid XPath expression.
  (Session info: chrome=68.0.3440.106)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.41.578737 (49da6702b16031c40d63e5618de03a32ff6c197e),platform=Windows NT 10.0.17134 x86_64)

I'm very newbie to python, learning basics and learning automating stuffs at the same time so forgive this beginner !

[silenceMeNow]

SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '//span@title = "shyam"]' is not a valid XPath expression.


HMMMMMMM??
Maybe you should start reading your error messages. It literally stands there

[rybk1a]

You should try this (Notice the forward slash after span):

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user = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span/@title = "{}"]'.format(name))

[kookur]

You should try this (Notice the forward slash after span):

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user = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span/@title = "{}"]'.format(name))

Didn't worked !

[mikeyymooney]

Didn't worked !

You are missing an opening bracket, try the following code below:

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user = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@title="{}"]'.format(name))

Notice the extra "[" before @title.

[kookur]

You are missing an opening bracket, try the following code below:

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user = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@title="{}"]'.format(name))

Notice the extra "[" before @title.

Not not worked. I was following this video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hr0IdVM7Qg

[wtfrick]

You should look into using requests instead of selenium.

PM me your Discord if you need help.

[kookur]

You should look into using requests instead of selenium.

PM me your Discord if you need help.

Sent my discord.

[mikeyymooney]

Not not worked. I was following this video :

That should work, I watched the video and his code is identical to the one I provided. Perhaps there is another issue with your code.

[kookur]

That should work, I watched the video and his code is identical to the one I provided. Perhaps there is another issue with your code.

Can you post the exact complete code, So i can copy paste and check it.

[mikeyymooney]

Can you post the exact complete code, So i can copy paste and check it.

Try this one from the Github page. Although it's last update was Nov 29, 2017.

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from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('I can't post links')

name = input('Enter the name of user or group : ')
msg = input('Enter the message : ')
count = int(input('Enter the count : '))

#Scan the code before proceeding further
input('Enter anything after scanning QR code')

user = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[@title = "{}"]'.format(name))
user.click()

msg_box = driver.find_element_by_class_name('input-container')

for i in range(count):
   msg_box.send_keys(msg)
   driver.find_element_by_class_name('compose-btn-send').click()

[Mohinder]

I made a few bots for WhatsApp. Im quite sure this one is working:

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driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@title="{}"]'.format(chat)).click()

To use By, you need to import it into your script:

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from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

The code above will give you an exception when a user is not found, so you should catch that exception and handle it.

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try:
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@title="{}"]'.format(chat)).click()
except NoSuchElementException as e:
    print('User not found, exception: {}'.format(str(e)))

And whenever an existing exception is used, import this into your script. For the above exception the import will be:

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from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

[Oblivious-]

if you still haven't figured this out send me a private message I'll be glad to help

[kookur]

if you still haven't figured this out send me a private message I'll be glad to help

Mohinder helped me, bot is working fine now mate but if you don't mind i'd still like to add you somewhere and will learn something from you :)