import time from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options from seleniumrequests import Chrome from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException, StaleElementReferenceException MAX_POSTS = 5000 SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS = (NoSuchElementException, StaleElementReferenceException) def delete_posts(driver): """ Deletes or hides all posts from the wall """ for _ in range(MAX_POSTS): post_button_sel = "_4xev" while True: try: timeline_element = driver.find_element_by_class_name(post_button_sel) actions = ActionChains(driver) actions.move_to_element(timeline_element).click().perform() menu = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#globalContainer > div.uiContextualLayerPositioner.uiLayer > div") actions.move_to_element(menu).perform() try: delete_button = menu.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@data-feed-option-name=\"FeedDeleteOption\"]") except SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS: delete_button = menu.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@data-feed-option-name=\"HIDE_FROM_TIMELINE\"]") actions.move_to_element(delete_button).click().perform() confirmation_button = driver.find_element_by_class_name("layerConfirm") # Facebook would not let me get focus on this button without some custom JS driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", confirmation_button) except SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS: continue else: break # Required to sleep the thread for a bit after using JS to click this button time.sleep(5) driver.refresh()