Introduction
Here is the definition of Selenium given by their official website:
Selenium automates browsers.
What are the functionalities we want to implement for our bot?
The goal of this article is to give you an overview of the possibilities given by Selenium, so I won’t be able to show you how to code every action possible by our bot on Instagram, but with the knowledge you’ll acquire reading this article, you will be able to add the missing functionalities on your own. For now, our bot should be capable of the following action
-Open Instagram.
-Sign in.
Script
from selenium import webdriver
# For using sleep function because selenium
# works only when the all the elemets of the
# page is loaded.
import time
browser = webdriver.Chrome("C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\chromedriver.exe")
url = "https://www.instagram.com/"
username ="305kishan" #Enter your id
password="test" #Enter your password
browser.get(url) #this will open Instagram homepage in chrome
time.sleep(3)
browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@class='_l8p4s'][2]").click()
time.sleep(3)
a = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='_t296e'][1]/div[1]/input[1]")
a.send_keys(username) #For entering username
b = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='_t296e'][2]/div[1]/input[1]")
b.send_keys(password) # For entering password
For more on how to locate html elements visit the selenium documentation.
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