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Luke
Luke

Reputation: 51

How to locate Instagram Follow button with selenium (Python)

I'm trying to locate the 'follow' button element on an instagram page (using selenium).

I've found the main 'follow' button of a user's page (https://www.instagram.com/USERNAME/) with the following code:

follow_button = self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector('button')

Although after clicking the above element ^, now I'm trying to locate 'follow' buttons visible when you view a user's followers. Click here to see which buttons I'm referring to.

I've tried the following code but it doesn't work:

acc_follow_buttons = self.driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('button')

for acc in acc_follow_buttons[:15]:
    acc.click() 
    time.sleep(1)

I've also tried searching with Xpath, with no luck.

Could anyone with experience in Selenium help me with the code to locate the follow buttons on this page.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4269

Answers (4)

Kh4lid MD
Kh4lid MD

Reputation: 135

Without having to check if a element exist or not, check if the ds_user_id cookie is in the cookies.

# make a function to check if instagram is logged in
def is_logged_in():

  # getting instagram so we only have instagram cookies in driver.get_cookies()
  driver.get("https://www.instagram.com")

  # get all the cookies, this returns a list of dicts
  cookies = driver.get_cookies()

  # loop through all the cookies till we find some cookie has ds_user_id in its name
  # to return True, but if the loop finished without finding one it will return False
  for cookie in cookies:
    if cookie['name'] == 'ds_user_id':
      return True
  return False

Very fast and better way.

Upvotes: 0

Tommaso Montagni
Tommaso Montagni

Reputation: 56

You have to search for the button by button text:

Follow_Button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='Follow']")

Upvotes: 4

Prem Ib
Prem Ib

Reputation: 146

try this. range here points to number of followers.add a code to get follower count and append it to range.note that, list starts from 1.

for i in range(1, 10):
                follow = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[3]/div/div[2]/ul/div/li[{}]/div/div[3]/button'.format(i))
                follow.click()
                time.sleep(0.5)

Upvotes: 0

n_b
n_b

Reputation: 303

I don't have an Instagram account so I'm answering somewhat blind, but do the follow buttons have classes? If so then you can use driver.find_elements_by_class_name() to find the specific buttons.

Upvotes: 0

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