Facebook upload a picture using selenium webdriver

Question

Using Selenium WebDriver I'm not able to click on add picture/video to a group in Facebook.

i tried

    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@aria-label='הוסף תמונה או סרטון']")).click();

but it does not work.

I'm getting the error "Cannot click elements"

How do I locate the element?

The html snippet is:

<div class="_3jk">
    <input aria-label="הוסף תמונה או סרטון" accept="video/*,  video/x-m4v, video/webm, video/x-ms-wmv, video/x-msvideo, video/3gpp, video/flv, video/x-flv, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/mpeg, video/ogv, .ts, .mkv, image/*, image/heic, image/heif" containerclassname="_5g_r" multiple="" name="composer_photo[]" display="inline" role="button" tabindex="0" data-testid="media-sprout" type="file" class="_n _5f0v" id="js_14">
</div>

Answer 1

Hi you could try converting the local text to Unicode values first, use the below website to do that:

https://www.branah.com/unicode-converter

So the unicode character for :

הוסף תמונה או סרטון is

\u05d4\u05d5\u05e1\u05e3 \u05ea\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4 \u05d0\u05d5 \u05e1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05df

Now use that value in your xpath:

a=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@aria-label='\u05d4\u05d5\u05e1\u05e3 \u05ea\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4 \u05d0\u05d5 \u05e1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05df']"));

But still your code won't work

You are trying to click an input element , you should click the div element . Click won't work in input element.

Try using below locator:

by.xpath("(//*[@class=\"_3jk\"])[1]")