Everything in the first piece of code works flawlessly, but the second one does nothing, even though the code is being registered. What I eventually want to happen is for the code to find the links of the first 6 Instagram posts, and store their metrics (for now just the views). But I want to do this across different accounts. Meaning different link directories. What this code is supposed to as of now is to get the "href" attribute of the "v1Nh3 kIKUG _bz0w" class and store it in a list. I've referenced the HTML for a better idea of what we're dealing with here. Help!!
from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
import random
import re
#bot detect evasion
waiting_time = [4,4,8.2,4,6,13,7.2,3.4,6.5,9]
number = 3 #random.choice(waiting_time)
bigger_number = 4000000
class seeder_gram():
def __init__(self, username, phone, email, password):
self.username = username
self.phone = phone
self.email = email
self.password = password
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome("/Users/apple/Downloads/chromedriver")
self.driver.get('https://instagram.com')
sleep(number)
#username insert
username_form = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/section/main/article/div[2]/div[1]/div/form/div/div[1]/div/label/input')
username_form.clear()
username_form.send_keys("nothingtoseehere")
#password insert
password_form = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/section/main/article/div[2]/div[1]/div/form/div/div[2]/div/label/input')
password_form.clear()
password_form.send_keys("nothingtoseehere")
#clicks button
button_click = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/section/main/article/div[2]/div[1]/div/form/div/div[3]/button')
button_click.click()
sleep(number)
#close noti bar
try:
noti_pop_up = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div/div[3]/button[2]')
noti_pop_up.click()
except:
pass
#list of targets
account_list = ["nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere"]
account_picker = random.choice(account_list)
#searches for target
self.driver.get('https://instagram.com/' + account_picker + '/')
sleep(number)
#post list
post_id_finder = self.driver.find_elements_by_class_name("v1Nh3 kIKUG _bz0w")
list_of_links = []
def get_href(post_id_finder):
for post in post_id_finder:
link = post_id_finder.get_attribute('href')
link.append(list_of_links)
print(list_of_links)
get_href(post_id_finder)
"""
#gives unique post directory
#eventually this will be a list that appends links depending on post
post_id = "/p/CLWlksPHsvN/"
#searches for the first grid
grid_search = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="react-root"]/section/main/div/div[4]/article/div[1]/div/div[1]')
#goes to post
post_viewer = self.driver.get('https://www.instagram.com' + post_id)
#checks view
video_views = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/section/main/div/div[1]/article/div[3]/section[2]/div/span')
views = re.findall(r'\d', video_views.text)
print(views)
#combines view value
post_index = 1
while post_index != 6:
#finds videos that show views
#what if the video isnt based on views??
#logs views in list
#goes back one page
#moves on to next post
post_index += 1
"""
#back up serch feature in case first doesn't work, needs more work added though to make functional
"""
search_up = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/section/nav/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/input')
search_up.clear()
search_up.send_keys(account_picker)
"""
sleep(bigger_number)
#registered users
user1 = seeder_gram("nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseeheres")
user2 = seeder_gram("nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere", "nothingtoseehere")
seeder_gram()
This is the code I'm having trouble with:
#post list
post_id_finder = self.driver.find_elements_by_class_name("v1Nh3 kIKUG _bz0w")
list_of_links = []
def get_href(post_id_finder):
for post in post_id_finder:
link = post_id_finder.get_attribute('href')
link.append(list_of_links)
print(list_of_links)
get_href(post_id_finder)
Here is what the HTML looks like, if there's a better way to do this:
