Has anyone faced the problem that automation routine for instagram written in python with selenium chromedriver has become difficult to run recently because instagram keeps asking for the code it sends in sms or email?
When you do your normal browser login it asks for the code in sms only once. But when you do it with selenium it asks for it every time.
Here is the code
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
#options.add_argument('headless')
#options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-logging')
options.add_argument('--log-level=3')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
#driver = webdriver.Chrome()
print('Driver started successfully!')
driver.get("https://instagram.com/")
time.sleep(6)
pg=driver.find_element_by_tag_name("html")
lng=pg.get_attribute("lang")
#print(lng)
if lng=='en':
global lin
global foll
global foll_tx
global subscr_tx
lin="Log in"
foll="followers"
foll_tx="Follow"
subscr_tx="following"
get_enter_bt
= driver.find_elements_by_link_text(self.lin)
lin_found=False
while not lin_found:
if len(get_enter_bt)==0:
print('Login not found ((( Refreshing...')
driver.refresh()
time.sleep(6)
get_enter_bt = driver.find_elements_by_link_text(self.lin)
else:
lin_found=True
print('Login button found!')
time.sleep(3)
get_enter_bt[0].click()
time.sleep(3)
#login
login = driver.find_element_by_name("username")
login.send_keys(username)
login = driver.find_element_by_name("password")
login.send_keys(password)
login.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
time.sleep(9)
get_close_mobapp=driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("button._dbnr9")
if len(get_close_mobapp)!=0:
get_close_mobapp[0].click()
notif_switch=driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("button.aOOlW.HoLwm")
print('notif butt %s' % len(notif_switch))
if len(notif_switch)>0:
notif_switch[0].click()
print(1)
#detect suspicious login
susp_login_msg=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=\"react-root\"]/section/div/div/div[1]/div/p")#<p class="O4QwN">Подозрительная попытка входа</p>
print('susm login msg %s' % (susp_login_msg!=None))
if susp_login_msg:
if susp_login_msg.text=='Подозрительная попытка входа':
try:
mobile_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=\"react-root\"]/section/div/div/div[3]/form/div/div[2]/label")
mobile_button.click()
except:
mobile_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=\"react-root\"]/section/div/div/div[3]/form/div/div[1]/label")
mobile_button.click()
snd_code_btn=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=\"react-root\"]/section/div/div/div[3]/form/span/button")
snd_code_btn.click()
print('Instagram detected an unusual login attempt')
print('A security code was sent to your mobile '+mobile_button.text)
security_code = input('Type the security code here: ')
#security_code_field = driver.find_element_by_xpath(("//input[@id='security_code']"))
security_code_field.send_keys(security_code)
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This code works fine, but how to stop instagram from asking for the code in sms every time? Does it detect that I run selenium and runs a kind of antibot activity?
I was running the script on schedule to perform series of likes for my subscribers for example which is time consuming you know and automation was my remedy)))