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Selenium made several changes, especially to find_element and find_elements and they depreciated the find_by_* calls.

Documentation on "https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/installation.html" is outdated Best Documentation can be found on "https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/elements/locators/"

The following code can log users into Instagram and clear the 2 messages as of 27 Sept 2023

HTH

`import getpass #my_password = getpass.getpass("What's your password?\n") #print(my_password)

from conf import INSTA_USERNAME, INSTA_PASSWORD from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By ##***Helpful in 4.3.

import time

browser = webdriver.Chrome() url = 'https://instagram.com' browser.get(url) time.sleep(1)

username_el = browser.find_element(By.NAME,'username').send_keys(INSTA_USERNAME) password_el = browser.find_element(By.NAME,'password').send_keys(INSTA_PASSWORD) submit_btn_el = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[@type='submit']"); time.sleep(1) submit_btn_el.click() time.sleep(3)

body_el = browser.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"body") html_text = body_el.get_attribute("innerHTML") """ Need to clear the Save your login

"""

not_now_el = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[contains(text(),'Not Now')]") not_now_el.click()

""" Also need to clear the Turn on Notifications """

notifications_not_now_el = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(),'Not Now')]") notifications_not_now_el.click() `