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🚀 Day 5: Navigating Instagram and Handling Pop-Ups with Selenium

Today, we'll take your Instagram automation to the next level by learning:

✅ How to navigate Instagram after login
✅ Handling pop-ups (like "Save Info" and "Turn on Notifications")
✅ Clicking profile elements and navigating to different sections

Let's dive right in!

🧑‍💻 Step 1: Handling Post-Login Pop-Ups

After logging in, Instagram shows pop-ups like:

"Save Your Login Info?"
"Turn on Notifications"

We need to dismiss these pop-ups to continue navigating the website.

📚 Code to Handle Pop-Ups:

# Handle "Save Your Login Info?" pop-up
try:
    save_info_popup = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Not Now')]"))
    )
    save_info_popup.click()
except:
    print("Save Info pop-up not found.")

# Handle "Turn on Notifications" pop-up
try:
    notification_popup = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Not Now')]"))
    )
    notification_popup.click()
except:
    print("Notification pop-up not found.")

🧑‍💻 Step 2: Navigating to the Profile Section

Once logged in, you can navigate to the profile section to view user information.

📚 Code to Navigate to Profile:

# Click on the profile icon
profile_icon = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@aria-label='Profile']"))
)
profile_icon.click()

🧑‍💻 Step 3: Liking a Post

Let's navigate to a post and like it.

📚 Code to Like a Post:

# Navigate to the first post
first_post = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//div[@role='button'])[1]"))
)
first_post.click()

# Like the post
like_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@aria-label='Like']"))
)
like_button.click()

🧑‍💻 Step 4: Posting a Comment

Next, we'll learn how to post a comment on a post.

📚 Code to Post a Comment:

# Click on the comment field
comment_field = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//textarea[@aria-label='Add a comment…']"))
)
comment_field.click()
comment_field.send_keys("Nice post! 😊")

# Click the post button
post_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Post')]"))
)
post_button.click()

🎯 Full Code for Today's Lesson:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

# Setup Chrome options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
chrome_options.add_argument("--start-maximized")

# Initialize the driver
service = Service("chromedriver")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=chrome_options)

# Open Instagram
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")

# Explicit wait for the username field
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
username_field = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "username")))
password_field = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "password")))
login_button = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@type='submit']")))

# Enter credentials
username_field.send_keys("your_dummy_username")
password_field.send_keys("your_dummy_password")
login_button.click()

# Handle "Save Your Login Info?" pop-up
try:
    save_info_popup = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Not Now')]"))
    )
    save_info_popup.click()
except:
    print("Save Info pop-up not found.")

# Handle "Turn on Notifications" pop-up
try:
    notification_popup = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Not Now')]"))
    )
    notification_popup.click()
except:
    print("Notification pop-up not found.")

# Navigate to the profile section
profile_icon = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@aria-label='Profile']"))
)
profile_icon.click()

# Like the first post
first_post = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//div[@role='button'])[1]"))
)
first_post.click()

like_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@aria-label='Like']"))
)
like_button.click()

# Post a comment
comment_field = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//textarea[@aria-label='Add a comment…']"))
)
comment_field.click()
comment_field.send_keys("Nice post! 😊")

post_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Post')]"))
)
post_button.click()

# Close the browser
driver.quit()

🎯 Task for Today:

1️⃣ Handle Instagram's pop-ups dynamically.
2️⃣ Navigate to your profile and like the first post.
3️⃣ Post a comment on a post.

Would you like me to explain how to scrape Instagram data next? 😊

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