My Instagram automation code doesn't fill the username and password into login page-CodePudding

I'm new to code and I started creating an Instagram bot. My code open the webpage and navigate to the sign in page but doesn't fill in the blanks for the username and password. I wanted to use selenium, I've tried different method and what I upload here was the last one. I don't know what is the problem here.

from selenium import webdriver
import os 
import time

class InstaBot:

    def __init__(self, username = None, password = None):
       
        self.username = '******'
        self.password = '******'
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
        
        self.login()

    def login(self):
        self.driver.get('https://instagram.com')    

        username_input = self.driver.find_element_by_name('username')
        password_input = self.driver.find_element_by_name('password')

        username_input.send_keys(self.username)
        password_input.send_keys(self.password)
        login_btn.click()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ig_bot = InstaBot('temp_username', 'temp_password')

CodePudding user response：

Hopefully, the problem solved. I've changed the code into

username_input = self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[name='username']") password_input = self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[name='password']")

and it works!!

CodePudding user response：

Instagram website is built of React element so to send a character sequence to the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='username']"))).send_keys("limbalu")
self.driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='password']").send_keys("limbalu")

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='username']"))).send_keys("limbalu")
self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@name='password']").send_keys("limbalu")

Note: You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC