import time from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains from .common import SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS, archiver # Used as a threshold to avoid running forever MAX_POSTS = 15000 def delete_posts(driver, user_profile_url, year=None): """ Deletes or hides all posts from the wall Args: driver: seleniumrequests.Chrome Driver instance user_profile_url: str year: optional int YYYY year """ if year is not None: user_profile_url = "{0}/timeline?year={1}".format(user_profile_url, year) driver.get(user_profile_url) for _ in range(MAX_POSTS): post_button_sel = "_4xev" post_content_sel = "userContent" post_timestamp_sel = "timestampContent" wall_log, archive_wall_post = archiver("wall") while True: try: timeline_element = driver.find_element_by_class_name(post_button_sel) post_content_element = driver.find_element_by_class_name(post_content_sel) post_content_ts = driver.find_element_by_class_name(post_timestamp_sel) archive_wall_post(post_content_element.text, timestamp=post_content_ts.text) 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: try: delete_button = menu.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@data-feed-option-name=\"HIDE_FROM_TIMELINE\"]") except SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS: delete_button = menu.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@data-feed-option-name=\"UNTAG\"]") 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 wall_log.close() # Required to sleep the thread for a bit after using JS to click this button time.sleep(5) driver.refresh()