I'm learning about selenium on python and came across an error I don`t really know how to solve: In this project the bot I've designed was supossed to Like all the tweets on the page when I searched for a certain subject. Altought the bot go through all the loops and like half of the tweets, it still misses every 2 or 3 tweets. Could somebody shed a light on why is it missing tweets?
# it's essencial that the user first pip install selenium on his system or on the source code editor such as visual code
# afterwards download the latest geckodriver on github and unzip it on the root of your python folder
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
class TwitterBot:
def __init__(self,username,password):
self.username = username
self.password = password
self.bot = webdriver.Firefox()
def login(self):
bot = self.bot
bot.get('https://twitter.com/login')
time.sleep(5) # I used a timer to load wait for the page to load before entering the login and password
email = bot.find_element_by_name("session[username_or_email]")
password = bot.find_element_by_name("session[password]")
email.clear()
password.clear()
email.send_keys(self.username)
password.send_keys(self.password)
password.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
time.sleep(5)
def like_tweet(self,hashtag):
bot = self.bot
bot.get('https://twitter.com/search?q='+hashtag+'&src=typeahead_click')
time.sleep(3)
bot.find_element_by_link_text("Latest").click()
time.sleep(3)
for i in range(6):
bot.execute_script('window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight)')
time.sleep(3)
tweets = bot.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[@data-testid="tweet"]')
for tweet in tweets:
try:
bot.find_element_by_xpath('//div[@data-testid="like"]').click()
time.sleep(3)
except:
print("ERROR")
bot = TwitterBot('xxx@gmail.com','xxxxx') # Enter here your username/e-mail and password like this: ('email@email.com','password')
bot.login()
bot.like_tweet('python learning') # Enter here the subject you want the bot to search for ('subject')