this is my first time posting so if I made a mistake please let me know.
I'm trying to make a bot for fun on Instagram and one of the functions is to go to a user's page, view their followers, and then start following people on that list.
This post was similar however the list I'm pulling from repopulates more entries after scrolling through every 12 profiles.
Here's the code so far:
def follow_multiple(self, user): #navigate to user profile self.nav_user(user) time.sleep(3) #open followers window followers_button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href, '/{}/followers')]".format(user)) followers_button.click() time.sleep(2) followers_popup = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[2]") follower_popup_range = int(self.follower_amt(user)) for i in range(int(follower_popup_range/11)): time.sleep(random.normalvariate(2, 0.3)) f = 1 while f<=12: try: #try to click follow button time.sleep(random.normalvariate(1.2, 0.2)) lc = f + (i*11) print('pressing' + str(lc) + '...') self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[2]/ul/div/li[{}]/div/div[3]/button" .format(lc)).click() print('button ' + str(lc) + ' pressed') except: print('button ' + str(lc) + 'failed') time.sleep(random.normalvariate(0.2, 0.04)) #click cancel try: #attempt to click cancel on one xpath self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div/div[3]/button[2]").click() print(str(lc) + ': Already following user') f -= 1 except: #other xpath for the same button time.sleep(1) self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div/div[3]/button[2]").click() f += 1 #JS to scroll through list self.driver.execute_script('arguments[0].scrollTop = arguments[0].scrollHeight', followers_popup) time.sleep(2) It has no problem going to the page and opening the follower box. And the outer loop can scroll through the box just fine. The inner loop dies at the 12th element just after the print saying 'Button 12 failed'
The inner loop should go through and follow each account (12 elements each population) and the try block is there to handle clicking on someone already being followed that brings up a confirmation page that it hits cancel. Just not sure why it dies at the end of the 12th and final iteration it gives me this error:
selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document But I don't know why since the element is there. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
