LinkedIn Error

[botsrus]

I know that this is most likely a user error. I am a newb with no programming experience so I might be doing something wrong.

I am following 'Tutorial #4. Creating parser with several stages' to create a bot on LinkedIn USA. However, I keep getting an error message right after BAS enters the search string into the appropriate search field. It gets hung up when the results pull up and when it is supposed to click on the locations tab to search for people only in the U.S. I made sure to use record it as 'move an click' but it will not initiate. Or it Any ideas?

I have deleted the steps and re-recorded. It works fine when I am doing it but then it gets hanged when I run it.

These are the steps that I have recorded.
Initiate
load linkedin.com
move and click onto login
type text username
move and click onto password
type text password
move and click on submit
move and click on search field
type text keywords
move and click to submit button
move and click to the locations button where there is usually a dropdown of locations to choose or type. That is where it hangs up because the cursor isn't going to the locations field even though I have recorded it.

Here is the error message that I receive.

[18:21:53] Thread #1 : Failed to wait for element >CSS> #ember1657 > form > :nth-child(1) > :nth-child(1) > :nth-child(2) > li-icon > svg

[Fox]

@botsrus You need to use another selector. Here is the manual for selectors.

[botsrus]

Thanks for that but I keep going in circles when trying to figure out which selector to use. The circle leads me back to "I am not a technical guy". So please keep this in mind with my ramblings below.

From the reading that I have done via the link that you provided, these are my options. Can someone help me understand which one and why it is best to choose for LinkedIn? I would like to learn because I plan on building something similar for other sites.

• Simple selectors: Match one or more elements based on element type, class, or id.
  Attribute selectors: Match one or more elements based on their attributes/attribute values.

• Pseudo-classes: Match one or more elements that exist in a certain state, such as an element that is being hovered over by the mouse pointer, or a checkbox that is currently disabled or checked, or an element that is the first child of its parent in the DOM tree.

• Pseudo-elements: Match one or more parts of content that are in a certain position in relation to an element, for example the first word of each paragraph, or generated content appearing just before an element.

• Combinators: These are not exactly selectors themselves, but ways of combining two or more selectors in useful ways for very specific selections. So for example, you could select only paragraphs that are direct descendants of divs, or paragraphs that come directly after headings.

• Multiple selectors: Again, these are not separate selectors; the idea is that you can put multiple selectors on the same CSS rule, separated by commas, to apply a single set of declarations to all the elements selected by those selectors.

So you know, I keep getting errors when I try 'move and clip on element', 'set combobox by index', 'set combobox by value'.

I don't always get an error message at 'move and clip on element' at the search field but when I do it is Thread #1 : Failed to wait for element >CSS> #ember44 > input.

The error message that I get on Locations whether I use "move and clip on element" or one of the combobox is Thread #1 : Failed to wait for element >CSS> #ember1657 > form > :nth-child(1) > :nth-child(1) > :nth-child(2) > li-icon > svg.

I also tried to Inspect Element in Devtools in hopes that I can see the prefix that it is used but it doesnt mean anything to my non-techie butt.

Not sure but I might just use the below prefix to move the cursor to that location.

<button class="search-s-facet__name-wrap search-s-facet__name-wrap--pill button-secondary-medium-muted" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="locations-facet-values">
<div class="search-s-facet__name-wrap-container search-s-facet__name-wrap-container--pill">
<div class="search-s-facet__name">
<span class="visually-hidden">Expand Locations facet</span>
<h3 class="search-s-facet__name t-16 t-black--light t-bold">Locations</h3>
</div>
<span class="search-s-facet__svg-icon svg-icon-wrap"><li-icon aria-hidden="true" type="caret-filled-down-icon" size="small"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="24px" height="24px" x="0" y="0" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" class="artdeco-icon" focusable="false"><path d="M8.8,10.66L14,5.12A0.07,0.07,0,0,0,13.93,5H2.07A0.07,0.07,0,0,0,2,5.12L7.2,10.66A1.1,1.1,0,0,0,8.8,10.66Z" class="small-icon" style="fill-opacity: 1"></path></svg></li-icon></span>
</div>
</button>

[KiMoO]

@botsrus U get that problem due to a dynamic selector. Each time u reload or refresh ur page the selector get's changed but BAS keeps looking for the old selector u entered before the refresh\reload.

How to sort that out ?

• U can write u own selector. Don't always rely on BAS selector's although they work sometime's they are not the optimal one's.

• U can look for the location's drop down list by a picture ( just hold ur left mouse button) and drag to create a green frame over the required area to search it.

• U can use click by coordinates but if a browser's resolution get's changed this method gotta cause an err too.

[botsrus]

@kimoo said in LinkedIn Error:

write u own selector.

Thanks for the reply and suggestions.

Should I use the following to learn how to create a selector?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduction_to_CSS/Simple_selectors

I take it that the type of selector (class, ID, universal, attribute) will depend on what I see on the "Inspect Element on Devtools" option, right?

[KiMoO]

@botsrus Right. ( there are other types of selector's) like match & xpath. Believe it or not but that's easy, if u wanna manege this soft well, u have get get a crash course in selector's =)