🎯 Day 16: Connecting Tkinter GUI to Your Instagram Bot (Selenium)

✅ What You’ll Learn Today:

• Setting up Selenium and WebDriver.
• Connecting the Tkinter GUI to the bot.
• Using event handling to start the bot.
• Creating a simple Instagram login bot.

🚀 1. Installing Selenium

First, you need to install Selenium if you haven’t already:

pip install selenium

Also, download the Chrome WebDriver that matches your Chrome version from:

🖥 2. Basic Instagram Login Bot Code (Selenium)

Here’s a simple Selenium bot to log in to Instagram:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

def instagram_login(username, password):
    # Set up the WebDriver
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/chromedriver")

    # Go to Instagram login page
    driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/")

    # Wait for the page to load
    time.sleep(5)

    # Enter username
    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "username").send_keys(username)

    # Enter password
    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "password").send_keys(password)

    # Click the login button
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="loginForm"]/div/div[3]/button').click()

    # Wait to see the result
    time.sleep(10)

    # Close the browser
    driver.quit()

📋 3. Integrating Tkinter GUI with Selenium

Now, let’s connect the Tkinter GUI to the Instagram bot.

import tkinter as tk
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

# Function to log in to Instagram
def instagram_login(username, password):
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/chromedriver")
    driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/")
    time.sleep(5)
    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "username").send_keys(username)
    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "password").send_keys(password)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="loginForm"]/div/div[3]/button').click()
    time.sleep(10)
    driver.quit()

# Function to start the bot
def start_bot(username, password):
    print(f"Starting bot with Username: {username} and Password: {password}")
    instagram_login(username, password)

# Create the main window
root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Instagram Bot")
root.geometry("400x300")

# Create labels and entry fields
username_label = tk.Label(root, text="Username:")
username_label.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=10, pady=10)

username_entry = tk.Entry(root)
username_entry.grid(row=0, column=1, padx=10, pady=10)

password_label = tk.Label(root, text="Password:")
password_label.grid(row=1, column=0, padx=10, pady=10)

password_entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*")
password_entry.grid(row=1, column=1, padx=10, pady=10)

# Create a button to start the bot
start_button = tk.Button(root, text="Start Bot", command=lambda: start_bot(username_entry.get(), password_entry.get()))
start_button.grid(row=2, column=0, columnspan=2, pady=20)

# Run the main event loop
root.mainloop()

🧑‍💻 4. Step-by-Step Guide:

• Save the script as instagram_bot_gui.py.
• Replace path/to/chromedriver with the actual path to your ChromeDriver.
• Run the script:

python instagram_bot_gui.py

• Enter your Instagram credentials in the GUI and click Start Bot.
• The bot will log in to Instagram automatically using Selenium.

🎨 5. Optional: Adding Loading Messages

You can add a loading message in the GUI to show when the bot starts.

def start_bot(username, password):
    status_label.config(text="Bot is running...")
    instagram_login(username, password)
    status_label.config(text="Bot finished.")

Add the status label in the GUI:

status_label = tk.Label(root, text="", fg="green")
status_label.grid(row=3, column=0, columnspan=2)

🔐 6. Optional: Masking Password Input

In Tkinter, you can mask the password field by setting show="*" in the Entry widget:

password_entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*")

🎯 7. Full Code:

import tkinter as tk
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

# Function to log in to Instagram
def instagram_login(username, password):
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/chromedriver")
    driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/")
    time.sleep(5)
    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "username").send_keys(username)
    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "password").send_keys(password)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="loginForm"]/div/div[3]/button').click()
    time.sleep(10)
    driver.quit()

# Function to start the bot
def start_bot(username, password):
    status_label.config(text="Bot is running...")
    instagram_login(username, password)
    status_label.config(text="Bot finished.")

# Create the main window
root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Instagram Bot")
root.geometry("400x300")

# Create labels and entry fields
username_label = tk.Label(root, text="Username:")
username_label.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=10, pady=10)

username_entry = tk.Entry(root)
username_entry.grid(row=0, column=1, padx=10, pady=10)

password_label = tk.Label(root, text="Password:")
password_label.grid(row=1, column=0, padx=10, pady=10)

password_entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*")
password_entry.grid(row=1, column=1, padx=10, pady=10)

# Create a button to start the bot
start_button = tk.Button(root, text="Start Bot", command=lambda: start_bot(username_entry.get(), password_entry.get()))
start_button.grid(row=2, column=0, columnspan=2, pady=20)

# Status label
status_label = tk.Label(root, text="", fg="green")
status_label.grid(row=3, column=0, columnspan=2)

# Run the main event loop
root.mainloop()

📌 Task for Today:

• Build the Instagram Bot GUI.
• Connect it to the Selenium bot.
• Test it by logging in to Instagram.

Would you like me to guide you through adding error handling for incorrect logins or improving the GUI layout in Day 17? 😊😊