davidwickerhf / instaclient

instaclient is a Python library for accessing Instagram's features. With this library, you can create Instagram Bots with ease and simplicity. The InstaClient takes advantage of the selenium library to execute tasks which are not allowed in the Instagram Graph API (such as sending DMs, scraping user's followers).

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instaclient's Issues

Upload Posts Function

A way to upload posts to the user's profile with the client.
Utilize Facebook Graph API?

Add alternatives to long duration methods

For InstaClient methods that normally require a long time to complete (such as scrape_followers or send_dm), add alternatives that allow library users to yield results or to process the methods differently.

Adapt Mobile Driver

Adapt to mobile ChromeDriver, so that posts upload becomes possible.

Error

Hi,

I do not know how to fix this. I've tried different methods but no luck. I am using Windows 10 Enterprise version 20H2.

Here is the error:

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable

Client stuck after infinite scorlling

Thank you for this great initiative. I tried the bot today, and it seems to be stuck after infinite loading until the end of the followers list.

Here's what I am trying to achieve.

followers = client.scrape_followers(user='user_name', count=150, callback_frequency=15)
print(followers)

For some reason, it never prints the followers list. It's just stuck

outdated

hey Your tool is outdated

Headless seems to be not working

Hi,

at first, great job!

Does the headless mode working on your machines? I am on ubuntu 18.04 and the application stucks w/ headless mode on. Further it seems without headless mode the chrome browser needed to be focused to let the app run. Maybe that it a chrome driver thing. I want to put the app into docker by under this condition it is not possible. I only had experience with the gecko driver which worked like a charm.

Additions to improve the tool

First: Adding automatic likes to posts from Explore

Second: Adding the ability to post comments on publications within Explore

Third: Add the ability to extract Instagram users from the hashtag or location and save them automatically in a txt file

Thank you.

Rate limit monitoring request

According to this:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/rate-limiting/

the call_count in the header would let you monitor how close to being put in the penalty box.

Possible to parse this header and throttle codes, and expose in methods?

I am try to use with proxy No sucssesful conection ERR_NO_SUPPORTED_PROXIES

client = InstaClient(driver_path=chr_driver,proxy=proxy_ip, port=port_num)
Any idea it can work with proxy since is have a argument in source but when I try with proxy is not making a connection.
ERR_NO_SUPPORTED_PROXIES

Receive direct messages

How do I get the messages people send me direct?

ERROR - The request with cursor None failed

result of get_following is returning:
{"message":"Please wait a few minutes before you try again.","status":"fail"}

context: I've perhaps met the limit Instagram gave. But it's almost half day (12 hour) already.

How to get the json data ?

After scrapping of followers starts, the insta page gives the json data, How could we capture this data

Comment is posted when Instagram gives error

Hello, I am doing a comment bot and sometimes Instagram blocks commenting, when you exceed the maximum in a day or there appears an error when you want to tag (@Someone) that doesn't want to be tagged. (These errors are the same)
This error appears for about 3 seconds and then it is removed, but if you want to comment again and you are "blocked" it will show the error another 3 seconds

It should raise an Exception but it keeps logging that the comment were succesfully posted

The error path:

• Button (Retry): have class "sqdOP yWX7d y3zKF"
• p (Couldn't publish the comment...): have class "gxNyb"

Chromedriver stuck at save info page.

The chrome driver is stuck at https://www.instagram.com/accounts/onetap/?next=%2F here we have to click manually on the Save Info or Not Now button in order to further execute our python script.

Add check_login_status method

Add a method to check weather user is logged in or not

Following does not work

`users = ['macrsina', 'campbell_collection', 'ms_francesca_2ya', 'maygouda', 'is_sticx', 'the.beauty.myth', 'stelarkn', 'glambyjesse', 'la_collective', 'chelseabellwalker', 'kehlanihavanna', 'maiisbellamake', 'aaminaaj', 'shaun.freemann', 'francimyelke', 'theinfringeman20', '__nontobeko', 'chanteljoyxowell', 'moyosore.o', 'mustahsunsunny', 'codenamepink', 'mahdiar_taji', 'chelsthedoll', 'tlongerthomas']

x = 0
while 24>x:
x += 1
try:
profile = client.get_profile(users[x])
profile.follow()
print(users[x])
except:
pass`
Pretty sure I am doing this the right way but it still does not work, try yourself.

send photo to direct

Is it possible to send photos and videos direct?