Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"._4xev"} #128

Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"._4xev"}
(Session info: chrome=81.0.4044.113)

this happens after chrome goes to the profile url.

I can see it does log that message but interestingly it still seems to manage to delete posts. I think it's because something changed, but I'm not sure why it still works for me. I'll see if I can fix the broken selector though.

Looks like the CSS selector is still the same. It just isn't showing up right away, but it eventually finds it. Does deleting work for you still?

Do you by any chance have the "new" Facebook frontend enabled? That would completely break everything.

Yep, thats it than.
edit: confirmed, old frontend just works.

Leaving this open till there's a fix for forcing the mobile site to be used (which should fix it)

Same problem here. Is there a way to get around this?

Same problem here. Is there a way to get around this?

Try using the old facebook frontend. If that doesn't fix it, I'll try to take a look soon.

I love this tool. Thanks for making it. Unfortunately, the new facebook is here to stay. I filed a support ticket asking for the old version so I could use this tool, but I haven't been able to get a response. Do you know of anyway of forcing the old UI back? otherwise, we may be forced to update. I'd be happy to contribute to the code if that's the case.

I love this tool. Thanks for making it. Unfortunately, the new facebook is here to stay. I filed a support ticket asking for the old version so I could use this tool, but I haven't been able to get a response. Do you know of anyway of forcing the old UI back? otherwise, we may be forced to update. I'd be happy to contribute to the code if that's the case.

I do not know if there is a way of forcing it. PRs for this would be welcome if you want to do the work of figuring out how to fix it though. At the moment I'm not too focused on this but I would be happy to review and approve it.

Hoping to put some time towards refactoring this soon

I love this tool. Thanks for making it. Unfortunately, the new facebook is here to stay. I filed a support ticket asking for the old version so I could use this tool, but I haven't been able to get a response. Do you know of anyway of forcing the old UI back? otherwise, we may be forced to update. I'd be happy to contribute to the code if that's the case.

It is possible to to switch to the classic view. That is what I have done. However, after this month, we shall all be forced to use the new version.

It will be nice to get a way around this though.

looks like I have the new facebook, I'll start trying to hack together support for it soon

Just so you know, starting in September no one will be able to use the old version of Facebook anymore. Source

working on getting this to work today, it's a bit challenging to extract the content and timestamp of posts now

will likely force the mobile site to work around issues

this is fixed in https://github.com/weskerfoot/DeleteFB/pull/129 but needs more testing / work on the other features

mainly, ~~it isn't picking up the timestamp correctly~~, and I haven't tested unliking pages / archiving messenger conversations yet
also would like to add the ability to delete comments potentially, and to untag stuff, but I will put those in separate PRs

should be fixed now, new release coming soon

I downloaded DeleteFB today, and got this message, because I installed with "pip3 install --user delete-facebook-posts" on Windows 10. That gave me version 1.1.14 from April 1. I needed to get the ChromeDriver exe file from the zip at https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home then I went to the DeleteFB home page, under the green "Code", download zip, then "pip3 install --user .", then it said it was deleting 1.1.14 and installing 1.1.13, and now it is working. Hooray!

I downloaded DeleteFB today, and got this message, because I installed with "pip3 install --user delete-facebook-posts" on Windows 10. That gave me version 1.1.14 from April 1. I needed to get the ChromeDriver exe file from the zip at https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home then I went to the DeleteFB home page, under the green "Code", download zip, then "pip3 install --user .", then it said it was deleting 1.1.14 and installing 1.1.13, and now it is working. Hooray!

Hi, sorry about that. I just pushed a new release now. I was too busy to do it earlier and had forgotten, thanks for using it! You should be able to use version 1.1.15 now, which fixes this.