I was trying to make a program that sends comment under a youtube's video while a send_keys() problem suddenly appeard
I have written this code, for send comments under a youtube video, but when I execute it, it gaves me this error (line 20, the line of msg_box.send_keys(msg)):
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/isiac/PycharmProjects/webtest/youtube test.py", line 20, in <module> msg_box.send_keys(msg) File "C:\Users\isiac\PycharmProjects\webtest\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 477, in send_keys self._execute(Command.SEND_KEYS_TO_ELEMENT, File "C:\Users\isiac\PycharmProjects\webtest\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 633, in _execute return self._parent.execute(command, params) File "C:\Users\isiac\PycharmProjects\webtest\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "C:\Users\isiac\PycharmProjects\webtest\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable idk why, can you help me?
from selenium import webdriver import time again = str("yes") while again == 'yes': driver = webdriver.Chrome() driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=youtubevideo") driver.maximize_window() msg = input("write your message ") count = int(input("send how much time you want to send it ")) input("ready and waiting ") msg_box = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/ytd-app/div/ytd-page-manager/ytd-watch-flexy/div[4]/div[1]/div/ytd-comments/ytd-item-section-renderer/div[1]/ytd-comments-header-renderer/div[5]/ytd-comment-simplebox-renderer/div[1]/yt-formatted-string") for index in range(count): time.sleep(5) msg_box.send_keys(msg) time.sleep(5) driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/ytd-app/div/ytd-page-manager/ytd-watch-flexy/div[4]/div[1]/div/ytd-comments/ytd-item-section-renderer/div[1]/ytd-comments-header-renderer/div[5]/ytd-comment-simplebox-renderer/div[3]/ytd-comment-dialog-renderer/ytd-commentbox/div/div[4]/div[5]/ytd-button-renderer[2]/a/paper-button").click again = str(input("do you want to do it again? ")) print("acknowledge") 
I ran your code on my machine line by line, and the problem is that when the page is first loaded, the msg_box element is not loaded, so your first XPath query fails. The comment element doesn’t load until the page is scrolled down. This behavior may be dependent on screen size, but I’m on a laptop and don’t have a large monitor to test.
In order to scroll down so the comment box is enabled, modify your script like this:
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys # needed to send END key import time again = "yes" # "yes is already a string while again == "yes": driver = webdriver.Chrome() driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=youtubevideo") driver.maximize_window() time.sleep(1) driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.END) # this is the important part msg = input("write your message ") count = int(input("send how much time you want to send it ")) print("ready and waiting") # we don't need input() here msg_box = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/ytd-app/div/ytd-page-manager/ytd-watch-flexy/div[4]/div[1]/div/ytd-comments/ytd-item-section-renderer/div[1]/ytd-comments-header-renderer/div[5]/ytd-comment-simplebox-renderer/div[1]/yt-formatted-string") for index in range(count): time.sleep(5) msg_box.send_keys(msg) time.sleep(5) driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/ytd-app/div/ytd-page-manager/ytd-watch-flexy/div[4]/div[1]/div/ytd-comments/ytd-item-section-renderer/div[1]/ytd-comments-header-renderer/div[5]/ytd-comment-simplebox-renderer/div[3]/ytd-comment-dialog-renderer/ytd-commentbox/div/div[4]/div[5]/ytd-button-renderer[2]/a/paper-button").click() again = input("do you want to do it again? ") # input() always returns a str print("acknowledge") I didn’t actually sign in to YouTube and leave a comment on a random video, so I don’t know if your second XPath is valid, but hopefully you get the idea.
