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Greetings, I'm a Python and Selenium beginner and I can't let my eye off your code. It's neat and I've learnt plenty. However, I'm curious why did you implement sleep but not waits from Selenium with the help of expected_conditions? I always thought that waits in Selenium may save more time as it checks the DOM or the webpage for the element. Is there any downside of using those? Please correct me if I'm wrong here as I'm still a novice to Selenium and automation. And I'm happy to make a pull request if you like to.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "program.py", line 239, in
main()
File "program.py", line 218, in main
bot = Instabot(username,password)
File "program.py", line 35, in init
self._make_driver_wait("//button[contains(text(), 'Not Now')]")
File "program.py", line 209, in _make_driver_wait
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, element_to_locate)))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/support/wait.py", line 86, in until
raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Hey there, I have this strange error. Maybe you can help me?

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\user\Downloads\InstaBot-master\program.py", line 240, in <module> main() File "C:\Users\user\Downloads\InstaBot-master\program.py", line 219, in main bot = Instabot(username,password) File "C:\Users\user\Downloads\InstaBot-master\program.py", line 32, in __init__ self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[@type="submit"]').click() File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 80, in click self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 633, in _execute return self._parent.execute(command, params) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: Element <button class="sqdOP L3NKy y3zKF " type="submit"> is not clickable at point (844,379) because another element <div class="piCib"> obscures it

Greetings and thanks in advance

Hello , i love your script , it so cool to have make the wait for the elements.

i would like to ask a question. i custom a little bit your bot so i don't have to decide if i want to unfollow someone , it unfollow everyone that don't follow.

but i saw some error in my process .

at one moment i cannot go to the user profile and wait i relaunch the script my follower list is coming back to old one .

Do you think that instagram prevent bot ? (the should)
They can detect if you unfollow to mush people and block it ?

Just wanted to share this : D

ps: we can go directely to the person page with the url, don't need to type in the search bar

When I run under Linux or MacOS below is the error I received. Account opened by driver pop-up opened for followers and below is the comment and code stop working. Any response?

Enter the choice : 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "program.py", line 221, in
main()
File "program.py", line 207, in main
bot.get_unfollowers()
File "program.py", line 95, in get_unfollowers
following = self._get_names()
File "program.py", line 133, in _get_names
self._make_driver_wait("/html/body/div[4]/div/div[2]")
File "program.py", line 191, in _make_driver_wait
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, element_to_locate)))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/support/wait.py", line 80, in until
raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: