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🗓️ Day 14: Downloading Post Data (Images/Videos)

🚧 Step 1: Finding the Image URL

Instagram stores its images and videos in a specific URL format. We'll use Selenium to locate the URLs and extract the image's src attribute.

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

# Initialize the driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome("path/to/chromedriver")
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/your_target_profile/")

# Wait for page to load
driver.implicitly_wait(10)

# Find the first post image
image = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//img[contains(@class, "FFVAD")]')
image_url = image.get_attribute("src")
print(f"Image URL: {image_url}")

🚧 Step 2: Downloading the Image

Use the requests library to download the image and save it locally as a file.

import requests

# Download the image
response = requests.get(image_url)

# Save the image locally
with open("downloaded_image.jpg", "wb") as file:
    file.write(response.content)

print("Image downloaded successfully!")

🚧 Step 3: Downloading Multiple Images

Loop through multiple posts to download more images. This is helpful when scraping images from a profile or a hashtag page.

# Locate all images on the page
images = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//img[contains(@class, "FFVAD")]')

# Loop through the images and download them
for index, img in enumerate(images):
    img_url = img.get_attribute("src")
    response = requests.get(img_url)
    with open(f"image_{index + 1}.jpg", "wb") as file:
        file.write(response.content)
    print(f"Image {index + 1} downloaded!")

🛠️ Practical Task for Day 14

✅ Scrape and download the first image from a profile.
✅ Create a loop to download the first 5 images from a hashtag page.

🚀 Next Steps for Day 15

Tomorrow, we'll start building a GUI for your bot using Tkinter! Ready to bring your bot to life with a desktop interface? 😃