How to Write Automated Birthday Posts on Facebook Using Selenium

Written by elon-not-musk | Published 2020/05/18
Tech Story Tags: selenium | web-scraping-with-python | life-hack | python-tutorials | python | automated-birthday-posts | facebook | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR How to Write Automated Birthday Posts on Facebook using Selenium Web Driver. This will save you hundreds of seconds during the week, and maybe even minutes during the course of the year. With a few lines of Python and easy use of Selenium, we can have you posting on friends' walls in no time. We need to locate the tab using 'inspect element' or F12 on Windows to find the tab. We can then write our message and send it to Facebook. As of May 2020, I figured out that the right-most tab consists of an Ad, Birthdays and Messenger, the tab, falls under a class of elements labelled 'Birthdays'via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/05/18