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Selenium Clicking all follow buttons on instagram Python

I am trying to automate Instagram follow button clicks when you click on a user's username on the Instagram website.

Upon clicking the username, you then click followers and a window opens containing the people following this person and there are follow buttons

Here's a screenshot of the new window

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I am trying to click the buttons one by one through python selenium but nothing I try seems to work.

The best I got was a for loop that only clicked the first follow button using xpath but the other buttons were not clicked. 

#click the followers button to dispaly the users followers
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("followers").click()
time.sleep(3)
#scroll through the followers list to a specified heeight
scroll_box=driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[4]/div/div[2]")
last_ht, ht=0, 1
while last_ht !=ht:
    last_ht=ht
    time.sleep(2)
    ht=driver.execute_script("""arguments[0].scrollTo(0, 2000);
    return 2000;
    """, scroll_box)
#follow users up to the specified height
follow=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/html/body/div[4]/div/div[2]/ul/div/li[1]/div/div[3]/button")
for x in range (0,len(follow)):
        follow[x].click()
        time.sleep(2)

    time.sleep(1)
Solution

  • Your Xpath selector seems to be copied straight from the chrome developer tools and BTW it will only return one button as you are targeting one li

    # Get all buttons that has the text Follow 
buttons = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[contains(.,'Follow')]")
for btn in buttons:
    # Use the Java script to click on follow because after the scroll down the buttons will be un clickeable unless you go to it's location
    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", btn)
    time.sleep(2)