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Automate Facebook Posts Using Python

Web Scraping Using Selenium

Abhay Parashar
The Pythoneers
3 min readNov 8, 2020

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Welcome My Friend, I m Abhay

In this blog, we are going to automate facebook posting using python and selenium. We will bypass Facebook login using id and password and then we will click on a new post and then write some text and then post it. First Let’s see

What is selenium??

Selenium is a free, open-source testing framework used to automate and validate different web applications across different web browsers. It is compatible with many programming languages like python, c#, java, etc. To use selenium we don’t have to learn any type of testing language.

If You Don’t Understand any Line Of Code Feel Free to ask below or Check into Documentation.

1. Installation

Now to get started with the automation we need to download and install Python with some packages.

Download the latest version of python from here. Double click on the .exe file and install it.

Now Next Thing Is to Download a text editor. Go to google and download anyone you like my preference is vs code.

Now the final step is to Install Selenium. Just Open Your Terminal and type

pip install selenium…

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Abhay Parashar
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