In this article, we will learn how can we like all the pictures of a profile on Instagram without scrolling and manually clicking the buttons. We will be using Selenium to do this task.
Packages/Software needed:
1. Python 3
2. Chromedriver compatible with the existing chrome version (download chromedriver)
3. Google chrome
4. Selenium package (pip install selenium), bs4 package(pip install bs4)
Step #1: Importing modules and entering the login information along with the URL of the page.
Python3
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bsimport selenium.common.exceptionsfrom selenium import webdriverimport timefrom selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keysprint("enter username")username = input()print("enter password")password = input()print("enter the url")url = input() |
Step #2: Function to enter the path where the chromedriver.exe file exists in your system
Python3
def path(): global chrome print("enter the driver path") exe_path = input() # starts a new chrome session chrome = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = exe_path) |
Step #3: Function to enter the URL of the page
Python3
def url_name(url): # the web page opens up chrome.get(url) # webdriver will wait for 4 sec before throwing a # NoSuchElement exception so that the element # is detected and not skipped. time.sleep(4) |
Step #4: Function to enter your login information
Python3
def login(username, your_password): # finds the login button log_but = chrome.find_element_by_class_name("L3NKy") time.sleep(2) # clicks the login button log_but.click() time.sleep(4) # finds the username box usern = chrome.find_element_by_name("username") # sends the entered username usern.send_keys(username) # finds the password box passw = chrome.find_element_by_name("password") # sends the entered password passw.send_keys(your_password) passw.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) time.sleep(6) notn = chrome.find_element_by_class_name("yWX7d")# dont save info button notn.click()# click don't save button time.sleep(3) |
Step #5: Function to open the first picture
Python3
def first_picture(): # finds the first picture pic = chrome.find_element_by_class_name("kIKUG") pic.click() # clicks on the first picture |
Step #6: Function to like a picture
Python3
def like_pic(): time.sleep(2) like = chrome.find_element_by_class_name('fr66n') soup = bs(like.get_attribute('innerHTML'),'html.parser') if(soup.find('svg')['aria-label'] == 'Like'): like.click() time.sleep(2) |
Step #7: Function to click on the Next button
Python3
def next_picture(): time.sleep(2) try: nex = chrome.find_element_by_class_name("coreSpriteRightPaginationArrow") time.sleep(1) return nex except selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: return 0 |
Step #8: Function which continues liking pictures till it is not able to find the next button
Python3
def continue_liking(): while(True): next_el = next_picture() # if next button is there then if next_el != False: # click the next button next_el.click() time.sleep(2) # like the picture like_pic() time.sleep(2) else: print("not found") break |
Step #9: Calling the functions
Python3
path()time.sleep(1)url_name(url)login(username, password)first_picture()like_pic()continue_liking()chrome.close() |
There you go! The script will automatically like all the posts until the end of the page.
