Selenium program execution does not start using Python Class

Question

Here is the code

class InstogramBot(): def __init__(self, username, password): self.username = username self.password = password self.driver = webdriver.Chrome() def close_browser(self): self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/") time.sleep(5) name_input = self.driver.find_element_by_name("username") name_input.send_keys(username) time.sleep(2) password_input = self.driver.find_element_by_name("password") password_input.send_keys(password) time.sleep(2) self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="loginForm"]/div/div[3]/button/div').click() time.sleep(7) self.driver.close() self.driver.quit() 

Selenium doesn't show up and doesn't even open the web driver

Console snapshot:

Answer 1

While using Python you need to consider the following:

• Python being an object oriented programming language, everything in Python is represented as an object along with its properties and methods.
• A Class in Python is the object constructor i.e. the mechanism for creating the objects.

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Your program

The code block you have written includes the definition of the Class and the only method.

To initiate a successful execution, you need to create an instance, i.e an object of the class InstogramBot()

bot = InstogramBot("Рома", "Рома") 

Finally, you need to invoke the method close_browser() through the object.

bot.close_browser() 

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Solution

Your effective code block will be:

from selenium import webdriver class InstogramBot(): def __init__(self, username, password): self.username = username self.password = password self.driver = webdriver.Chrome() def close_browser(self): self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/") time.sleep(5) name_input = self.driver.find_element_by_name("username") name_input.send_keys(username) time.sleep(2) password_input = self.driver.find_element_by_name("password") password_input.send_keys(password) time.sleep(2) self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="loginForm"]/div/div[3]/button/div').click() bot = InstogramBot("Рома", "Рома") bot.close_browser() 

Answer 2

If you do not have a driver object, this

self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/") 

should result in a compile-time error.

Fix :

Please download latest chromedriver from here

Latest stable release: ChromeDriver 95.0.4638.54 

Once downloaded, put that into some directory.

and use it like this :

driver_path = r'C:\\Users\\userID\\*****\\Desktop\\Automation\\chromedriver.exe' self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path) self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")