C# selenium youtube shorts

John Konev · Mar 21, 2022

Does anyone here has idea how can I get the correct html element for the youtube comment textbox. Tried approaching it multiple ways but seems that I can't get the right xpath of the element that I am looking for.

Gogol · Mar 21, 2022

Did you try opening it in a normal browser, right clicking on the textarea and copying the full xpath? If that does not work, chances are, it keeps changing every view.

John Konev · Mar 21, 2022

Gogol said:
Did you try opening it in a normal browser, right clicking on the textarea and copying the full xpath? If that does not work, chances are, it keeps changing every view.

Yeah, tried that already but no luck.

Smackhead · Mar 21, 2022

when you are trying to find this box using selenium have you logged in? The box rendered when you are not logged in is different from what you see when logged in.

matif11 · Mar 21, 2022

If you are logged in and did not click on it yet you can almost certainly just find it by id:

Code:

id="placeholder-area"

Smackhead · Mar 21, 2022

matif11 said:
If you are logged in and did not click on it yet you can almost certainly just find it by id:

Code:

id="placeholder-area"

might have some trouble with this as that element is hidden when logged in. The simplest option I think is to find it using the aria-label, maybe something like

Code:

By.XPath("//div[@aria-label='Add a comment...']")

Henry Cooper · Mar 21, 2022

JavaScript:

$x('//div[@id="contenteditable-root"]')[0]

John Konev · Mar 22, 2022

Smackhead said:
when you are trying to find this box using selenium have you logged in? The box rendered when you are not logged in is different from what you see when logged in.

matif11 said:
If you are logged in and did not click on it yet you can almost certainly just find it by id:

Code:

id="placeholder-area"

Smackhead said:
might have some trouble with this as that element is hidden when logged in. The simplest option I think is to find it using the aria-label, maybe something like

Code:

By.XPath("//div[@aria-label='Add a comment...']")

Henry Cooper said:
JavaScript:

$x('//div[@id="contenteditable-root"]')[0]

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I fixed it guys, sorry I didn't mention it I was so busy. The problem was that once you click the comment text box element it disappeas and you need to find another element once the first element is clicked. Thanks everyone for trying to help I really appreaciate it. Wish you good luck with your journeys

IonicStudio · Dec 2, 2022

public const string Avatar = "div[id='channel-header-container'] yt-img-shadow[id='avatar']>img";
public const string UserName = "div[id='channel-header-container'] yt-formatted-string[id='text']";
public const string Subscribers = "div[id='channel-header-container'] yt-formatted-string[id='subscriber-count']";
public const string Desc = "yt-formatted-string[id='description']";
public const string Detail = "div[id='details-container']";
public const string Country = "div[id='details-container']>table tr:last-child>td[class='style-scope ytd-channel-about-metadata-renderer']>yt-formatted-string";
public const string Link = "div[id='link-list-container']";

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