Questions tagged [instapy]
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Why is InstaPy throwing me a deprecation code when I run session.like_by_tags but not with other code using the same format?
First off, I am very new to all of this, so if I am missing something please let me know. With that said, I have been experimenting with the InstaPy bot for the past two weeks. It was working perfectly, and the next morning on January 17th, 2022,…

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Trouble running InstaPy quickstart
I was able to install InstaPy on an Oracle Ampere Compute VM (ARM processors) running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. When I try running quickstart.py, it showed me the following errors:
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/__init__.py:89:…

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Is it possible to create a python script using instapy where we have listed few insta accounts and it just checks their latest post and likes it?
Don't know how to approach. Any idea or suggestions regarding this are welcome.
Have seen few likes function that are already defined, but I don't want to like by tags as it would like posts of spam accounts also then using the same hashtag.
So I…

Devashish Narula
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Insatpyselenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Process unexpectedly closed with status 1
InstaPy Version: 0.6.15
.. .. .. .. .. .. ._.
Workspace in use: "/root/InstaPy"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/crazy/Desktop/instapy-quickstart/quickstart.py", line 22, in
session =…

Sabari OKG
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Instapy Failed to Like ----- Error media = post_page[0]["shortcode_media"] instapy-0.6.14
I am using instapy-0.6.14
code:
from instapy import InstaPy
import random
from instapy import InstaPy
from instapy import smart_run
#login credentials
insta_username = '****'
insta_password = '****'
#login session
session =…

Sonu Tyagi
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File is not a zip file || Instapy Problem
I'm using instapy, but when I run a code this message appears on my cmd
Does anyone know what this problem might be?
._. ._. ._. ._. ._. ._. ._. ._. ._.
Workspace in use: "C:/Users/lggal/InstaPy"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File…

Lucas Gallani
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Cannot find source code files - InstaPy - cannot detect post media type
novice coder here again with another probably simple problem that I'm not able to find a solution to.
I'm getting an error using InstaPy similar to the error that everyone has found here (https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/pull/6143) and I'm…

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Instapy doesn't seem to like or comment
I'm testing out instapy with the following configuration, it logs in, checks account and tags information but doesn't seem to actually like or comment. At the end it reports 0 for all actions. I'm running on OS X and no errors seem to be reported…

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automate direct message instagram instaPy
I'm trying to make a program to send a specific messages to anybody that send me a Direct Message in Instagram , by using InstaPy in python. Is this available in InstaPy library?

alireza biglari
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InstaPy media = post_page[0]["shortcode_media"] KeyError: 0
I am building an instagram bot but I run into this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\User\Desktop\instabot\insta.py", line 42, in
job()
File "C:\Users\User\Desktop\instabot\insta.py", line 26, in job
…

ananony
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instapy() Message: Expected browser binary location
Hi guys this is my code
from instapy import InstaPy
session=InstaPy(username='login' , password='password')
session.login()
and this is my exception:
Message: Expected browser binary location, but unable to find binary in default location, no…

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InstaPy BOT for Instagram/ how to run multiple scripts
I'm using InstaPy to automate my work, but I can't use more than one script at the same time, it works well the first one that I put to run but the second one doesn't. It only executes if I start the script when the first one is finished. Can anyone…

Thiago Vale
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Location of the installed python packages using pip3 on Google colab
I am trying to build a instagram bot using instapy on google colab.
I have installed the package using the following command in colab:
!pip3 install instapy
The issue is that I need to change some files in this module (ik its not recommended). But…

Anmol
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"Cannot detect post media type. Skip" InstaPy bot doesn't interact with posts
I am trying to write a code for instapy to like and comment on posts through tags. It shows up the tags page but does not interact with the posts.
My code:
session = InstaPy(username, password)
session.login() …

Kirti Palve
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'instapy' and 'selenium'
I am experiencing this error message with every lines of code I use and with every modules also if they are correctly installed
I got error about "No module named 'selenium'" and "No module named 'instapy'"
but on cmd if I try to install them again…

Sara Briccoli
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