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raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

I'm trying to use WhatsApp via python following the below code, but I'm receiving the following error: raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Is there something wrong with the code, or something that I'm missing here? Could some one please help me here in fixing this and how do I send auto-reply using python scrips in WhatsApp.

Thank you for the help.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time
# Replace below path with the absolute path
# to chromedriver in your computer
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/home/saket/Downloads/chromedriver')
driver.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 600)
# Replace 'Friend's Name' with the name of your friend 
# or the name of a group 
target = '"Friend\'s Name"'
# Replace the below string with your own message
string = "Message sent using Python!!!"
x_arg = '//span[contains(@title,' + target + ')]'
group_title = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((
    By.XPATH, x_arg)))
group_title.click()
inp_xpath = '//div[@class="input"][@dir="auto"][@data-tab="1"]'
input_box = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((
    By.XPATH, inp_xpath)))
for i in range(100):
    input_box.send_keys(string + Keys.ENTER)
    time.sleep(1)
                I see only one element with mentioned attributes (class="input", dir="auto", data-tab="1") and it's not div, but input... Could you try inp_xpath = '//input[@class="input"][@dir="auto"][@data-tab="1"]'? Also note that compound class name is "input input-search", but not just "input", so you should use [contains(@class, "input")] or [@class="input-search"]
– Andersson
                May 27, 2017 at 8:20
                here is the output after updating as mentioned above:         raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)         selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible       (Session info: chrome=58.0.3029.110)       (Driver info: chromedriver=2.25.426923 (0390b88869384d6eb0d5d09729679f934aab9eed),platf
– Shri
                May 27, 2017 at 8:28
                Traceback (most recent call last):   File "whatsapp.py", line 25, in <module>     group_title.click()   File "C:\Users\Desktop\ML\WinPython-64bit-3.4.4.2\python-3.4.4.amd64\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 77, in click
– Shri
                May 27, 2017 at 9:24
                self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)   File "C:\Users\Desktop\ML\WinPython-64bit-3.4.4.2\python-3.4.4.amd64\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 493, in _execute     return self._parent.execute(command, params)   File "C:\Users\Desktop\ML\WinPython-64bit-3.4.4.2\python-3.4.4.amd64\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 252, in execute
– Shri
                May 27, 2017 at 9:24
    driver.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")
except TimeoutException:
    # You can write retry code here
I hope this helps.
                File "whatsapp.py", line 13, in <module>     browser.get(url) NameError: name 'browser' is not defined  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "whatsapp.py", line 14, in <module>     except TimeoutException: NameError: name 'TimeoutException' is not defined
– Shri
                May 27, 2017 at 8:34
                Above is what i got after adding " try:     browser.get(url) except TimeoutException:     # You can write retry code here"
– Shri
                May 27, 2017 at 8:35
                Please check the updated answer. If you use separate function to connect to the sire using driver.get(), then you can make that function recursive in TimeoutException.
– Akash Wankhede
                May 27, 2017 at 16:43
                here is another error:                                                                                                  File "whatsapp.py", line 32, in <module>     input_box.send_keys(string + Keys.ENTER) NameError: name 'input_box' is not defined
– Shri
                May 27, 2017 at 17:18
        
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