I create a python bot using selenium to login into instagram and comment on the newwest post from a user.
It all works and the bot enters the comment, clicks on post and I can see the comment on my browser field. But when I open the instagram app I can not see my comment.
Is that a security problem that instagram recognize I am using a bot and deleted all of my action after I leave the page or is the sendkeys() method only for the login usable?
This is my code:
from selenium import webdriver
import os
import time
class InstagramBot:
def __init__(self, username, password):
self.username = username
self.password = password
self.base_url = 'https://www.instagram.com'
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver.exe')
self.login()
def login(self):
self.driver.get('{}/accounts/login/'.format(self.base_url))
time.sleep(1)
self.driver.find_element_by_name('username').send_keys(self.username)
self.driver.find_element_by_name('password').send_keys(self.password)
time.sleep(1)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="react-root"]/section/main/div/article/div/div[1]/div/form/div[4]').click()
time.sleep(4)
def nav_user(self, user):
self.driver.get('{}/{}/'.format(self.base_url, user))
def comment_on_newest_photo(self, user, comment):
self.nav_user(user)
picture = self.driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('a')
picture[8].click()
time.sleep(3)
text_field = self.driver.find_element_by_tag_name('textarea')
text_field.click()
time.sleep(1)
self.driver.find_element_by_tag_name('textarea').send_keys(comment)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/article/div[2]/section[3]/div/form/button').click()