i have a error in automation

Question

from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver = "/Users/ROJA/Downloads/chromedriver"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.get('https://web.whatsapp.com/')

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

input('Enter anything after scanning QR code')

#ths is an error
user = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[@title = "{}"]'.format(name))

 

user.click()

msg_box = driver.find_element_by_class_name('wjdTm')

for i in range(count):
    msg_box.send_keys(msg)
    button = driver.find_element_by_class_name('_3M-N-')
    button.click()

this is a output :

Enter the name of user or group : Bp
Enter your message : ur hacked
Enter the count : 50
Enter anything after scanning QR code
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "automation.py", line 87, in <module>
    user = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[@title = "{}"]'.format(name))
  File "C:\Users\ROJA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 394, in find_element_by_xpath
    return self.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
  File "C:\Users\ROJA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 978, in find_element
    'value': value})['value']
  File "C:\Users\ROJA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\ROJA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\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":"//span[@title = "Bp"]"}
  (Session info: chrome=77.0.3865.90)

please solve as  soon as possible

Comments

Seems like there is no user by the name that you have entered. Please confirm that

Answer 1

Instead of using Xpath, can you use id or any other identifier to locate the user element. Also add implicit or explicit wait so that page load can be done properly. 

"NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element:" These kind of errors occur when page load takes time or any specific element takes time to load properly. So using Wait or Thread.sleep() might help you.

Hope this helps!

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