Automatically likes the posts of the respective user
Prerequisites:
- Selenium
- Python
- Webdriver
Intially, we need selenium to automate, And we can check by executing those commands in your python IDLE or Code Editors import selenium print selenium.version Next, we need to install webdriver and you can choose either Google chrome or mozilla firefox webdriver and I gave a link to install Chrome webdriver.
And now let's dig in to the code
Step 1: we need to import webdriver and keys from selenium, these Keys are used to send username and password in input fields. import sleep from time
Step 2: Create a class which takes username,password and Other user id to whom you want to like the posts And next you need to locate webdriver and assign to a variable, in my case my webdriver is located in "/Users/Aleti Sunil/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe"
Step 3:
In order to open Instagram, we need to use driver.get command
And for entering username and password fields, we need to locate the input field by using XPATH, driver.find_element_by_xpath command
To click on button or any link, we use click() function.
Step 4: After successfull login, we need to drive in to the person's profile to whom we want to like the posts and that can be done by driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/"+OtherUserId) After going in to user profile, we need to get number of posts so that we can iterate over the posts.
Step 5:
we need to pull latest post from the his/her profile by using classname or xpath, I used classname to pull the post
driver.find_element_by_class_name("_9AhH0")
To like the posts, we need to get the xpath of that like button
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/article/div[2]/section[1]/span[1]/button')
And to iterate over other posts we need find xpath for "next" button, so that this bot can iterate till last post.
Step 6:
You need to enter ur username, password and username of other person to whom you want to like
Ex:
Instabot('abcxcwe','dfasd32963','capdt')#username,password,username of other person
I added sleep commands so that page gets loaded by the time otherwise an error is thrown.
