Building a simple Instagram bot with Python tutorial
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as the Selenium Instagram bot walkthrough they learned from, then cite it when asking about scraping likers, driver crashes, or deploying a bot.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2020 to 2024.
What it is
A roughly 14 minute Python tutorial by Aaron Jack that walks through building a simple Instagram bot with Selenium and ChromeDriver. It covers setting up the webdriver, logging in, and automating basic actions on the site.
What people said
Recommends Nadavo · 2020-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Getting list of likers for an instagram post - Python”
Selenium is actually perfect for that job. I did something similar long ago also, if you need some directions, this video covers it very thoroughly: instagram selenium bot [this video]
Cites ferenc kalauz · 2020-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Webdriver crashes when using it with Selenium. How to resolve it?”
I'm following this [this video] online resource, for building an Instagram bot. In it, the instructor uses selenium, which I installed by running: pip3 install selenium Then he mentioned using ChromeDriver [LINK] . I downloaded it and installed it following this resource [LINK] . I tested it and seemingly it worked, however when I tried to use it in my script it crashed, an error message occured: Error sending sync broker message: the pipe is being closed (0xE8) The script which I ran when the error occurred is: from selenium import webdriver class InstaBot: def __init__(self): self.driver = webdriver.Chrome() self.driver.get(' [LINK] ') InstaBot() How my I resolve this error? I read through doze
Cites Itame io · 2021-06 · Stack Overflow · on “How to run selenium on an actual webserver?”
I've no idea on how to do this and all the documentation that I could find by google did not help. A while back I was introduced to selenium through this tutorial [this video] and now that I'm more comfortable with it, I want my selenium "bot" to run on a webserver 24/7, receiving orders from me through facebook messenger (something I already did with it running on my local machine). I tried to find answers online and was overwhelmed by the amount of information, finding nothing that is clear to understand. All the pages I've been through require me to learn about a large array of things and have been very specific about their tools. And some times I try to follow along something just to receive
Cites Faz · 2024-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Scrape instagram liker with selenium”
I have a number of Instagram post addresses, and I want to scrape the usernames of people who liked these posts based on this video. video link [this video] Does Instagram have any limitations for this task, and is it possible for them to restrict the IP? Is there any other way to accomplish this?