TIL Python Basics Day 52 - Instagram Follower Bot

Selenium WebDriver and Execute JavaScript
https://pythonbasics.org/selenium-execute-javascript/

In Selenium WebDriver, there are two major methods to put an element into a visible area:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34562095/scrollintoview-vs-movetoelement

scroll
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38041974/selenium-scroll-inside-of-popup-div

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scrollTop

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scrollHeight

My code

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.common.exceptions import ElementClickInterceptedException

CHROME_DRIVER_PATH = "C:\-\chromedriver.exe"
SIMILAR_ACCOUNT = "c"
IG_USER = "d-"
IG_PASSWORD = "-"

class InstaFollower:
    def __init__(self):
        self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROME_DRIVER_PATH)

    def login(self):
        self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/")
        time.sleep(2)
        user_id = self.driver.find_element_by_name("username")
        password = self.driver.find_element_by_name("password")
        user_id.send_keys(IG_USER)
        password.send_keys(IG_PASSWORD)
        time.sleep(2)
        password.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
        time.sleep(5)
        popup_x = self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector("body > div.RnEpo.Yx5HN > div > div > div > div.mt3GC > button.aOOlW.HoLwm")
        popup_x.click()

    def find_followers(self):
        self.driver.get(f"https://www.instagram.com/{SIMILAR_ACCOUNT}")
        # self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/twizted_up/")

        click_followers = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='react-root']/section/main/div/header/section/ul/li[2]")
        click_followers.click()
        time.sleep(3)
        follow_btn = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div[2]/ul/div/li[1]")
        follow_btn.click()
        time.sleep(3)

        #find all li elements in list
        try:
            while True:
                follower_popup = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='isgrP']")
                self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollTop = arguments[0].scrollHeight", follower_popup)

        except ElementClickInterceptedException:
            cancel_btn = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[contains(.,'팔로우 취소')]")
            self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", cancel_btn)


#__________________________________________________________________________
        # follower_popup_list = self.driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='isgrP']//li")
        # print("follower_popup_list len is {}".format(len(follower_popup_list)))
        # print("ended")


    def follow(self):
        buttons = self.driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[contains(.,'팔로우')]")
        for btn in buttons:
            # Use the Java script to click on follow because after the scroll down the buttons will be un clickeable unless you go to it's location
            self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", btn)
            time.sleep(3.5)


bot = InstaFollower()
bot.login()
bot.find_followers()

Angela's code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.common.exceptions import ElementClickInterceptedException
import time

CHROME_DRIVER_PATH = YOUR CHROM DRIVER PATH
SIMILAR_ACCOUNT = "buzzfeedtasty"
USERNAME = YOUR INSTAGRAM USERNAME
PASSWORD = YOUR INSTAGRAM PASSWORD


class InstaFollower:

    def __init__(self, path):
        self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path)

    def login(self):
        self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/")
        time.sleep(5)

        username = self.driver.find_element_by_name("username")
        password = self.driver.find_element_by_name("password")

        username.send_keys(USERNAME)
        password.send_keys(PASSWORD)

        time.sleep(2)
        password.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

    def find_followers(self):
        time.sleep(5)
        self.driver.get(f"https://www.instagram.com/{SIMILAR_ACCOUNT}")

        time.sleep(2)
        followers = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="react-root"]/section/main/div/header/section/ul/li[2]/a')
        followers.click()

        time.sleep(2)
        modal = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[2]')
        for i in range(10):
            self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollTop = arguments[0].scrollHeight", modal)
            time.sleep(2)

    def follow(self):
        all_buttons = self.driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("li button")
        for button in all_buttons:
            try:
                button.click()
                time.sleep(1)
            except ElementClickInterceptedException:
                cancel_button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div/div[3]/button[2]')
                cancel_button.click()


bot = InstaFollower(CHROME_DRIVER_PATH)
bot.login()
bot.find_followers()
bot.follow()

From Q&A of lecture

My second confusion is how the 'following' - clicking the follow button - was achieved AFTER scrolling the page? Does it mean scrolling the page makes all the follow buttons available for clicking? I assumed the find_followers() will scroll all the followers and by the time we call the follow(), we would be on the last page and not have achieved much with the following. This was not the case and I just want to understand why it is so.

Lastly, I was unable to follow some people despite clicking the follow button.....In other words, the button remained unactivated - blue. Why is that? Also, after a while, I started seeing these pop ups (find attached), is it normal? Or does instagram suspect a bot? I gave the 1 sec delay Angela advised.

I am not usually an instagram person so pardon any silly questions. I sure hope the questions re clear enough.

I hope I get a response to my questions because I have not been receiving response to some of my questions lately.

Thank you.