PYTHON -INSTAGRAM 硒

Question

I have been stuck at the code from a long time:

so i want to send dm's using python on instagram but i am having a problem slecting the user from drop down menu like the text even goes in here, but now after this how do i select the first person?

I have tried using the find xpath method or get the class method or even tried using the button containing the text.

please help me.

from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep

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


x=input("Whom to you want to send your text message? Please type his/her name:- ")
print("Okay cool ! I got it !")
y=input("What is the message? Don't worry you can send any personal messages, I don't save them in my memory xD !")

class Instabot:
    def __init__(self, username, password):
        self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
        self.driver.get("https://instagram.com")
        sleep(2)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name=\"username\"]")\
            .send_keys(username)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name=\"password\"]")\
            .send_keys(password)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[@type="submit"]').click()
        sleep(3)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Not Now"]').click()
        sleep(2)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Not Now"]').click()
        sleep(2)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@placeholder=\"Search\"]")\
            .send_keys(x)
        sleep(2)
        select = Select(self.driver.find_element_by_id(x))
        select.select_by_visible_text(x)
        
        sleep(1)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Message"]').click()
        sleep(1)
        
        k=self.driver.find_element_by_tag_name('textarea')
        k.send_keys(y)
        sleep(1)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Send"]').click()
        sleep(1)
        
        
        
        
        
Instabot("username","password",)

Answer 1

Full working code. This will select the first suggestion, Visit the profile page, if the message option exists, it will click on message, and send the message.

from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

x = input("Whom to you want to send your text message? Please type his/her name:- ")
print("Okay cool ! I got it !")
y = input("What is the message? Don't worry you can send any personal messages, I don't save them in my memory xD !")


class Instabot:
    def __init__(self, username, password):
        self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
        self.driver.get("https://instagram.com")
        sleep(2)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name=\"username\"]") \
            .send_keys(username)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name=\"password\"]") \
            .send_keys(password)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[@type="submit"]').click()
        sleep(3)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Not Now"]').click()
        sleep(2)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Not Now"]').click()
        sleep(2)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@placeholder=\"Search\"]") \
            .send_keys(x)
        sleep(3)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=\"react-root\"]/section/nav/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div[4]/div/a[1]/div/div[2]/div").click()
        sleep(3)


        sleep(1)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Message"]').click()
        sleep(4)

        k = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="react-root"]/section/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/textarea')
        k.send_keys(y)
        sleep(1)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Send"]').click()
        sleep(1)