Instabrade
Selenium based Instagram scraper
Note that is project is currently in alpha: APIs can and will change without warning.
Currently support functionality:
- Log into Instagram
- Handle the mobile app related popups
Planned functionality in upcoming release(s):
- Return all posts from Home page
Example usage:
from selenium import webdriver
from instabrade import Instagram
my_username = "my username"
my_password = "my password"
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
try:
# Instantiate the object
# - This also loads instagram's URL
ig = Instagram(driver)
# Click the "Log in" link to display the login fields
ig.log_in_page.log_in_link_click()
# Fill in the username and password fields
ig.log_in_page.log_in_username = my_username
ig.log_in_page.log_in_password = my_password
# Click the Log In button
ig.log_in_page.log_in_button_click()
finally:
driver.quit()Instabrade is page-aware. If you attempt to interact with a property or method for a page that isn't currently loaded, a WrongPageError exception will get thrown:
In [1]: from selenium import webdriver
In [2]: from instabrade import Instagram
In [3]: driver = webdriver.Chrome()
In [4]: ig = Instagram(driver)
In [5]: ig.log_in_page.log_in_link_click()
In [6]: ig.log_in_page.log_in_username = my_username
In [7]: ig.log_in_page.log_in_password = my_password
In [8]: ig.log_in_page.log_in_button_click()
In [9]: ig.log_in_page.log_in_username = my_username
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
WrongPageError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-eb1e96eabcf5> in <module>()
----> 1 ig.log_in_page.log_in_username = my_username
/Users/levi/workspace/instabrade/instabrade/decorators.py in inner(obj, *args, **kwargs)
7 @wraps(func)
8 def inner(obj, *args, **kwargs):
----> 9 obj.assert_on_page()
10
11 return func(obj, *args, **kwargs)
/Users/levi/workspace/instabrade/instabrade/base.py in assert_on_page(self)
64 exc_msg = "Wrong page loaded. Expected {0} but found {1}"
65 raise WrongPageError(exc_msg.format(self.PAGE_IDENTIFIER,
---> 66 current_page_identifier))
67
68 @property
WrongPageError: Wrong page loaded. Expected
PageID(name='Log In Page Identifier', css_path='h1.coreSpriteLoggedOutWordmark', attr='class', attr_value='coreSpriteLoggedOutWordmark')
but found
PageID(name='Home Page Identifier', css_path='main[role="main"] > section a[href$="explore/"]', attr='href', attr_value='/explore/')
In [10]: