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📚 Day 18: Advanced Instagram Bot Automation (Selenium + Tkinter)

Today, we'll upgrade your Instagram bot with more powerful features:

Automated commenting on posts.
Following users.
Dynamic interaction based on hashtags.
Adding a "Stop Bot" feature to pause the bot anytime.

Let's make your bot more smart, interactive, and user-friendly!

✅ What You'll Learn Today:

Automating comments on Instagram posts.
Automating follow/unfollow actions.
Using hashtags to interact with posts dynamically.
Adding a Stop Button in Tkinter to stop the bot.

🧑‍💻 1. Automating Comments on Instagram Posts

We'll make the bot search for a specific hashtag and comment on the first few posts.

✅ Updated `instagram_login()` Function:

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

# Function to log in and comment on posts
def instagram_login(username, password, comment_text):
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/chromedriver")
    driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/")
    time.sleep(5)

    # Enter username and password
    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(5)

    # Search for a hashtag
    driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/programming/")
    time.sleep(5)

    # Click on the first post
    driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, '_aagw').click()
    time.sleep(3)

    # Add a comment
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//textarea").send_keys(comment_text)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Post')]").click()
    print("Commented on the post!")
    time.sleep(3)

    driver.quit()

🎯 2. Automating Follow/Unfollow Actions

You can also automate the process of following or unfollowing users.

✅ Follow Users Code:

# Follow a user after login
def follow_user(username_to_follow):
    search_url = f"https://www.instagram.com/{username_to_follow}/"
    driver.get(search_url)
    time.sleep(5)

    follow_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Follow')]")
    follow_button.click()
    print(f"Followed {username_to_follow}!")

🖥 3. Tkinter GUI with "Start" and "Stop" Buttons

Let's add start and stop buttons to your Tkinter GUI to control the bot.

✅ Complete Tkinter GUI Code:

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

# Global variable for the driver
driver = None

# Function to start the bot
def start_bot(username, password, comment_text):
    global driver
    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(5)

    # Navigate to a hashtag and comment
    driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/programming/")
    time.sleep(5)

    driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, '_aagw').click()
    time.sleep(3)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//textarea").send_keys(comment_text)
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Post')]").click()
    print("Commented on the post!")

# Function to stop the bot
def stop_bot():
    global driver
    if driver:
        driver.quit()
        print("Bot stopped!")

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

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)

comment_label = tk.Label(root, text="Comment:")
comment_label.grid(row=2, column=0, padx=10, pady=10)
comment_entry = tk.Entry(root)
comment_entry.grid(row=2, column=1, padx=10, pady=10)

start_button = tk.Button(root, text="Start Bot", command=lambda: threading.Thread(target=start_bot, args=(username_entry.get(), password_entry.get(), comment_entry.get())).start())
start_button.grid(row=3, column=0, pady=20)

stop_button = tk.Button(root, text="Stop Bot", command=stop_bot)
stop_button.grid(row=3, column=1, pady=20)

# Run the GUI loop
root.mainloop()

🎨 4. Enhancing the GUI with Styles

You can make the GUI more attractive by using fonts, colors, and layouts.

✅ Style the Buttons:

start_button = tk.Button(root, text="Start Bot", font=("Helvetica", 14), bg="green", fg="white", command=lambda: threading.Thread(target=start_bot, args=(username_entry.get(), password_entry.get(), comment_entry.get())).start())
stop_button = tk.Button(root, text="Stop Bot", font=("Helvetica", 14), bg="red", fg="white", command=stop_bot)

🎯 Task for Today:

Add commenting functionality.
Add follow/unfollow actions.
Implement a Stop button in the GUI.
Test the bot using different hashtags.

Would you like me to guide you through Day 19 with more advanced features like automated DM sending and Instagram scraping? 😊

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