Instapy: selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Element

[westondeboer]

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This is a Selenium error right?

Everything is updated, ubuntu, running in google cloud.

[westondeboer]

on line 126 in unfollow_util.py Changed
follow_button = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//article/header/span/button")
to

follow_button = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Follow')]")

[westondeboer]

I have lowered like by tag amounts, and this seems to have fixed the issue.

[westondeboer]

This didn't fix it, I have added a sleep before follow_button

sleep(2) follow_button = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//article/header/span/button")

And that fixed it.

[westondeboer]

Don't know why this was still coming up for me, but that did not fix it.

So instead I am faking the click:
follow_button.send_keys("\n")

And well see if the error comes up again, running it on two accounts now.

had to import

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains