使用PythonAnywhere时无法在网页上进行Selenium搜索

Question

I'm trying to find some elements on https://instagram.com using Selenium and my code works on my computer, but when I run it on PythonAnywhere and try to find at least body it returns " ". Code:

from selenium import webdriver

def code():
    browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    browser.get('https://instagram.com')
    print(browser.find_element_by_tag_name('body').text)

def main():
    code()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

I tried to test it with some random web-sites from their Whitelist and it Worked! But Instagram is also there... So, I am a little bit confused. What's my mistake? Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

We have not whitelisted the top-level instagram domain (instagram.com) only the subdomains (like api.instagram.com etc.) so you cannot scrape instagram using selenium. You can, however, use the API since that is the preferred way of accessing instagram from software.