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okay it's now time for the the next00:00:04
session and we have Tim Gman talking to00:00:06
us about automating Instagram with00:00:08
python and selenium please give them a00:00:10
warm00:00:12
[Applause]00:00:15
welcome hey everyone thanks for coming00:00:17
and welcome to automated Instagram with00:00:19
python and selenium and I hope you're a00:00:22
little bit excited because we''ll been00:00:23
talking about some great stuff including00:00:26
why you should use automation what00:00:27
selenium is we'll do some Instagram00:00:30
automation right here and talk about a00:00:32
page object design pattern and after00:00:35
that we'll quickly take a look at my00:00:36
tool instapy and last but not least we00:00:39
will go into why open source is00:00:41
important and how you can level up your00:00:43
own open source Pro portfolio and00:00:47
projects uh like has been said I'm Tim00:00:50
and I'm currently a c student in Germany00:00:52
and the creator of instapy and if you00:00:55
have any questions feel free to contact00:00:56
me on any of the social medias or00:00:59
directly we are Gmail I'll be happy to00:01:01
chat and if you have any questions later00:01:05
today or tomorrow and you can't remember00:01:07
my face I got this white dot on the back00:01:10
of my head and it's really kind of to00:01:14
remember00:01:15
me also make sure to follow me on00:01:17
Twitter because I'll be posting the00:01:18
slide still00:01:20
later but now without wasting any00:01:23
further time let's get right into it so00:01:25
why should you do00:01:27
automation I'm pretty sure every single00:01:30
one in this room has at least one task00:01:32
he could and actually should automate00:01:35
but they don't do it they instead just00:01:37
do it by hand and I interestingly got00:01:41
some emails through instapy from social00:01:44
marketing companies that told me that00:01:46
asked me to automate their Instagram00:01:49
growth process because they have like um00:01:53
one or two people sitting there and00:01:54
logging into clients accounts liking00:01:57
pictures commenting stuff and following00:01:59
people and they do it all by hand eight00:02:01
hours a day and I think this is really00:02:04
ridiculous especially since automating00:02:06
stuff is most of the time onetime effort00:02:09
you don't have to do it every time you00:02:10
might have to make some slight00:02:12
adjustments but the big part is done and00:02:16
it will save you time the more the more00:02:19
often you have to do it especially since00:02:21
a lot of tasks are EAS automatable than00:02:26
you actually think they are I just00:02:29
recently had to to send an email to00:02:31
every single contact on a CSV file and I00:02:34
could have gone in there and do this by00:02:36
hand but instead I just wrote a script00:02:38
to go through the CSV file and send out00:02:41
an email to everything so I had time for00:02:43
more important00:02:44
stuff and speaking of Instagram or00:02:48
Twitter Facebook you could actually do00:02:51
something like this but as things gets00:02:54
more complex this will really explode in00:02:56
complexity00:02:58
and has some some disadvantages that's00:03:01
why we will use a software only solution00:03:03
and we will use selenium here and I00:03:06
don't know how many of you have H00:03:08
selenium uh could you give me quick hand00:03:10
sign Oh okay that's quite a lot for00:03:13
those who don't know uh selenium is00:03:15
actually a testing tool for front ends00:03:17
especially web front ends but you can00:03:20
also do it with Java front ends and uh00:03:24
yeah it's actually for testing your web00:03:26
apps for example you could test a flask00:03:30
web app with it but it's also very good00:03:34
for automating boring tasks which of00:03:37
course liking stuff uh on Instagram is00:03:40
if you want to do it00:03:44
efficiently and who has already he of00:03:48
react VJs or angular probably everyone00:03:51
and you can't uh crawl websites which00:03:54
are dynamically rendered like Facebook00:03:57
Twitter Instagram with with uh simple00:04:00
requests that's why selenium is also00:04:02
very00:04:04
interesting and since we're using python00:04:07
here installing it is as easy as pip00:04:09
install selenium and we're now ready to00:04:12
do some real Instagram automation so00:04:15
let's just take a look at what we have00:04:18
to do we have to start a new browser we00:04:20
have to navigate to Instagram once we're00:04:22
on Instagram we can log Us in and once00:04:25
we're logged in we can then start to00:04:26
click these little hearty icons to00:04:29
actually like00:04:30
pictures and since we're using selenium00:04:33
here this is really easy and we have to00:04:36
Simply import the web driver element00:04:39
from from selenium and once we've done00:04:42
that we can instantiate our a new00:04:44
browser and in our case we will just use00:04:46
the Chrome browser here but you can use00:04:48
Firefox or check out the documentation00:04:51
which browsers are also00:04:53
supported and in the braises here you00:04:55
can pass the path to the Chrome driver00:04:58
this is not necessary but gives you some00:05:01
nice um Security on different platforms00:05:06
and once we've got our browser object00:05:07
ready we can then use the get method to00:05:12
navigate to any page in our case of00:05:13
course this is00:05:15
Instagram and once we're on Instagram we00:05:18
can00:05:20
then get to our next step and well the00:05:23
sleep is just here to make sure the00:05:25
browser doesn't close instantly and we00:05:26
can see something and the browser.00:05:28
closes here for for a clean exit which00:05:31
is recommended by00:05:34
selenium let's take a look at what00:05:36
happens so if we00:05:39
enter if we start the script we will see00:05:42
that uh it opens a new browser and00:05:44
navigates to00:05:47
Instagram and if you're now on Instagram00:05:50
we can we see that there is um there is00:05:54
no login form it's simply the signup00:05:57
form and we have to make sure we get to00:05:58
the login form form00:06:01
here do you see yeah um and in this case00:06:05
there is this little login link on the00:06:06
bottom of the page with which we can00:06:08
switch from the signup form to the login00:06:11
form and this is really good point to00:06:14
introduce A New Concept here uh from00:06:17
selenium and this is finding and00:06:19
clicking elements so so we in order to00:06:22
find an element on a page we can take a00:06:25
look at a page source and we have to00:06:27
find a nice signature of the element and00:06:29
in this case it's just an a tag with the00:06:32
class of underscore FC and so on and the00:06:36
text of login so we use that knowledge00:06:40
to get the element we are our browser00:06:44
element and for Chrome you can simply00:06:47
use the dev tools as well as Safari they00:06:50
all have very nice Dev tools where you00:06:52
can search elements pretty00:06:55
efficiently if we translate this into00:06:57
code now we can use our browser object00:07:00
to find element by X paath and for those00:07:02
who don't know xath is just a query00:07:05
language for XML documents as HTML in00:07:09
this example and the X path here is just00:07:12
like I said we will use the uh A- link00:07:16
as an anchor and we will search for the00:07:19
A- link which has an tag a name of login00:07:22
and text of login in this case and since00:07:25
we now have the login element we can00:07:28
simply do trigger Tri a click on it00:07:30
which will actually trigger a click on00:07:33
the login element here and you can see00:07:35
this little00:07:36
flickering and this is just selenium00:07:39
clicking on the Link login link to get00:07:41
us to the login form00:07:42
here perfect so we now on the login form00:07:46
and can log Us in we now have only have00:07:48
to send our username and password to the00:07:52
login form and once we've done that we00:07:53
are logged in to Instagram so let's00:07:57
check that out we first have to again00:08:01
check the page source for our elements00:08:03
and we'll also introduce A New Concept00:08:05
here which is called action chains and00:08:08
it does what it is called after it00:08:10
simply chains actions together and in00:08:14
this case we will just look for the form00:08:16
element and the login button and if we00:08:20
yet and translate this into code again00:08:22
we will get something like this and00:08:24
again we will use the browser element to00:08:27
find stuff by X path and for the inputs00:08:30
it's just for/ for /d/ input which is of00:08:35
course X path for our input00:08:38
forum and then we can instantiate a new00:08:40
action00:08:41
chain element which will pass the00:08:44
browser and we then have in access to00:08:47
some methods here which are move to00:08:49
element click Send keys and perform00:08:53
which will trigger the whole action00:08:56
chain to uh00:08:57
execute and if if we take a look at the00:09:00
code from bottom to from the top to the00:09:03
bottom we first move to the first input00:09:05
element which is the username we then00:09:07
click the input element and this will00:09:11
really have a more natur natural feeling00:09:15
and a more human feeling than just00:09:16
trigging clicks by00:09:19
JavaScript and after we clicked into00:09:22
this user element we can then send our00:09:25
username to it in this case it's00:09:27
contacting00:09:28
joho and and once we've done that we can00:09:30
move to the second form element of00:09:32
course and send our password in there00:09:36
after we entered our password and00:09:37
username we can then simply create a new00:09:40
action chain00:09:42
and of course click the element and I00:09:45
just added a second action chain here00:09:47
because um you have to see that it you00:09:50
can also use it for one element only you00:09:52
don't have to have like 10 elements or00:09:54
two of00:09:56
three so again let's take a look at what00:09:59
this code snippet00:10:01
does and this case it will just go in00:10:03
and enter username and password and00:10:06
click the login element here and of00:10:09
course this will trigger our Instagram00:10:11
to load the Fe feed page and we are00:10:14
actually now looked in00:10:16
successfully this is where it gets00:10:18
interesting because once we're logged in00:10:21
we can't instantly start C clicking on00:10:23
these hearty icons because we when we00:10:27
take a close look at Instagram00:10:30
and Twitter of course and Facebook all00:10:31
have this feature there is this little00:10:33
circly loading but loading circle on the00:10:36
bottom of the page which will only get00:10:38
new content once we reach the bottom of00:10:41
the page so there's not an too big of an00:10:44
overhead here and this will just00:10:47
dynamically load new content into our00:10:49
page and depending on how many images00:10:52
how many stuff we want we have to first00:10:54
get get hold of that and make sure that00:10:58
we have have enough P elements on the00:11:00
page if we want to do 20 it's not a00:11:02
problem but if we want to do 100 or 20000:11:04
elements on our front page we will have00:11:07
to tackle this00:11:08
and again we will introduce New Concept00:11:11
which are special keys and with the00:11:14
normal Sent send Keys method we can00:11:17
simply send text like our username and00:11:19
password but we have to use special keys00:11:21
for stuff like delete Enter space bar00:11:26
and in our case uh home the home and the00:11:29
End Key which will trigger the page to00:11:31
go to the top of the page and the end00:11:33
key will trigger it to be go to the00:11:36
bottom and let's translate this into00:11:38
code again this will lead to something00:11:41
like this we have to import the keys the00:11:43
special keys from selenium again and00:11:45
from then on we can simply use the keys00:11:48
and here's a special special element00:11:52
which we have to Define before is the00:11:54
body element because we need an anchor00:11:56
to send our commands to we need an00:11:58
anchor to send this keys to and we can't00:12:01
just use maybe the Instagram logo or00:12:05
something like that but we have to have00:12:08
a really a solid solid element which00:12:10
will stay the same in this case it's the00:12:11
body element because it's of course the00:12:14
element you click in and you operate in00:12:16
when you're using the browser00:12:18
yourself and then we can simply do a for00:12:21
Loop and in this case we will do it00:12:23
three times we will go to the bot bottom00:12:25
of the page to the top again to the00:12:27
bottom of the page and we will sleep two00:12:29
seconds in between each to make sure00:12:31
that the loading actually succeeds and00:12:33
we will get new00:12:35
content so if we take another look at00:12:37
how this code gets executed you will see00:12:40
that it moves to the bottom of the page00:12:42
and it moves up again and it it's all it00:12:44
does it just executes this three times00:12:46
in a row to make sure we got like 5000:12:49
elements here to later00:12:53
like so there is only one step left here00:12:56
which is finding all the hard elements00:12:59
and clicking them and you should now be00:13:01
able to do this all by yourself because00:13:03
it's we introduced all the concepts here00:13:05
which are finding elements and clicking00:13:07
elements of00:13:09
course and if we take another look at00:13:12
the page Source here we just have to00:13:16
find these hard icons and find another00:13:18
signature here make sure that the00:13:20
signature is unique to make sure that we00:13:23
don't get a another element on the page00:13:25
but exactly the one we need we want00:13:28
to00:13:29
and in this case we will use the class00:13:34
we will use several classes to make00:13:36
really make sure that we will get only00:13:38
these elements and we'll just Loop over00:13:41
it and we will do some printing to make00:13:44
sure that uh we keep track of how many00:13:46
elements we already00:13:48
liked and if we enumerate through it we00:13:51
will of course add another sleep to make00:13:53
sure we don't don't get banned00:13:58
here we will get something like this00:14:01
where we start up our script from the00:14:04
start and we will see everything we done00:14:06
right now so it starts a new browser it00:14:09
navigates to Instagram once we're on00:14:11
Instagram it will log Us00:14:14
in and once we're logged in it will then00:14:17
as we saw before start to move to the00:14:20
bottom of the page to the top again and00:14:22
once it's loaded enough images it can00:14:26
finally start00:14:28
to like some pictures we'll just wait a00:14:31
few seconds here until it's00:14:35
done and you can will then see that the00:14:38
page is really like jumping a little bit00:14:41
there you go and you see that the hard00:14:43
icons turn red and this is really just a00:14:47
very00:14:49
simple automation of of the liking for00:14:51
your news feed and you can enter you can00:14:54
add your own automation right now you00:14:56
can do filtering for friends you can for00:14:59
example make sure you don't like your00:15:00
own pictures you can add commenting and00:15:03
you can add following for the people you00:15:06
actually see on the front page or maybe00:15:10
even copy the pictures and post them00:15:12
yourself or something like that depends00:15:14
on what really depends on what you want00:15:16
to do with00:15:18
it but as you as you've seen right now00:15:22
we heavily rely on the page structure00:15:25
and this leads to some problems here00:15:27
because Instagram Facebook and all these00:15:30
big Pages where it would be interesting00:15:33
to do some automation on they changed00:15:35
their page layout pretty recently and00:15:37
pretty often and this really leads to00:15:41
breaks in the code and and make sure00:15:44
that the code is not working very long00:15:48
and this is really annoying to fix but00:15:51
it's pretty quick actually and we'll00:15:53
look into00:15:54
some ideas on how to make this more00:15:57
maintainable and get make sure that our00:16:00
code is solid more00:16:02
solid the second thing is different00:16:04
languages we saw that we rely on the00:16:07
login text for searching for elements00:16:11
here and this is00:16:13
really bad for different countries where00:16:16
we have for example here in Italy of00:16:18
course would be Italian or in France it00:16:20
would be French and so on so we can't we00:16:23
shouldn't rely on the page uh on the00:16:25
page language but selenium offer offers00:16:29
a really nice feature here which we with00:16:31
which we can simply um Force the browser00:16:34
to use a specific language and we can00:16:36
just inforce it to use English in this00:16:39
case and the most annoying problem is AB00:16:43
testing and all of these big companies00:16:45
of course do AB testing for those who00:16:47
don't know AB testing is just um rolling00:16:52
out features to a small group in a00:16:54
specific area like for example all right00:16:56
we have a new feature we will test it in00:16:58
only R and if the people in reminy think00:17:01
this feature is good and like this00:17:02
feature and there are no problems with00:17:04
this feature they will roll it out00:17:06
incrementally to more and more people to00:17:09
make sure that every person on the00:17:11
planet if for these big companies gets a00:17:14
new feature and testing this is really00:17:17
annoying because you have to make sure00:17:18
you get all the informations from the00:17:20
users all right where where are they00:17:22
located what's what's the language of00:17:24
their system what system are they using00:17:27
and all of these small little details00:17:29
which will or which can lead to a fail00:17:32
that is really unique to this to that00:17:37
person but00:17:40
selenium00:17:42
uh uh recommends P things an object00:17:45
design pattern for this page it's called00:17:48
page object design pattern and it of00:17:50
course is what it tells it's an object00:17:53
for every page so we would have an an00:17:55
object for our login page we would have00:17:57
an object for our news page and so on00:18:01
and this really gets us more00:18:03
maintainable code because we only have00:18:05
one place to make our changes around the00:18:08
UI so in order to make changes right now00:18:12
uh we would have to go through all the00:18:14
whole code and make all the changes to00:18:17
the xath and this is really really00:18:19
annoying and we don't want to do00:18:21
that it also reduces a duplicated code00:18:24
because it has a nice layer of00:18:27
abstraction here which will will move00:18:29
all the code to one one big bulb and in00:18:33
this code in this place there will be00:18:36
the only00:18:38
logic third thing is it adds through00:18:41
this abstraction layer it as adds a nice00:18:44
API layer which we can then use in our00:18:46
actual code base to kind of get some00:18:48
readable code and and if we add some00:18:50
comments and um little hints what we did00:18:55
here we can really get nice contributors00:18:58
and make sure that the contributors00:19:00
understand our code and can contribute00:19:02
as00:19:03
well and since we're all real00:19:06
programmers here we will look at an uml00:19:08
diagram of this page object this design00:19:10
pattern here and it looks something like00:19:13
this well no yeah just joking it looks00:19:16
more like this and as you can see here00:19:20
this is an example of the Google search00:19:22
page uh where00:19:24
every attribute is an element and in00:19:27
this case for example the URL is an00:19:30
attribute the search box is an attribute00:19:32
and so on and every method reps an00:19:35
action for example navigation00:19:37
searching and clicking the field lucky00:19:40
button for00:19:41
example and of course it is actually a00:19:44
test pattern so we have an actual test00:19:47
class here for each page object we need00:19:50
a test object00:19:52
here and don't know don't matter if you00:19:56
got this right now we will look at an00:19:58
example with Instagram here and we'll00:20:00
use the Instagram login form for this00:20:03
we'll we won't focus on on the App Store00:20:06
buttons or the00:20:08
login uh the signup link here we'll just00:20:11
focus on the username input the password00:20:14
input input and the login button here00:20:17
and if we again translate this into code00:20:20
we will get something like this where we00:20:21
have a class for our insta login page00:20:24
and with in within the Constructor00:20:26
Constructor we will Define every00:20:29
attribute every element as we said00:20:32
recently in this case it would be the00:20:34
user box the password box and the login00:20:36
button and once we found all these00:20:38
elements we can then use it in the00:20:40
complete in the full class right now so00:20:43
in our case we will implement the login00:20:45
method and it will get past the username00:20:48
and password and here in in the login00:20:51
method we can then instantiate a new00:20:53
action chain and go through all the00:20:57
methods here and do move to element like00:20:59
we did before and one interesting thing00:21:02
about the page object design pattern is00:21:05
that it returns a new page object for00:21:07
the next page we will move to so in our00:21:09
case as you saw when we log in we will00:21:12
move to the inst in to the feed page00:21:14
where our news feed is located so we00:21:16
will return a new instance of the insta00:21:19
feed page object in our00:21:23
case so right now we will switch over to00:21:27
instapy because don't want to implement00:21:29
this all yourself and think about how00:21:32
you can implement this and break your00:21:34
head about what what changes Instagram00:21:37
Mak sense something like that and I'm00:21:39
really amazed and really excited to talk00:21:42
about this here today because this is00:21:44
actually what led to this talk and um00:21:47
I'm really excited how big this got and00:21:50
what the open source Community made out00:21:52
of this and it is called instapy of00:21:55
course and right now we have around 200:21:58
cas stars on GitHub which is I think00:22:00
pretty nice for something like this00:22:02
especially since there are a lot of00:22:04
services out there which got token down00:22:06
by Instagram itself but there were in00:22:09
there were Services out there and this00:22:11
is really completely open source00:22:12
everyone can contribute and look at it00:22:14
and uh even copy it if they want to I00:22:19
have uh 32 contributors which are from00:22:22
which for are into the core developer00:22:24
team right now and we got over 420 Forks00:22:28
of this project and I hope there is a00:22:31
lot more to come because I want to keep00:22:33
this alive and make sure that people can00:22:35
actually use it and this many00:22:38
contributors this many interested people00:22:41
leads some to some very interesting00:22:43
stuff like an active community means00:22:47
there is quick help for everyone so if00:22:49
someone submits an issue there's an if00:22:51
if I00:22:52
can't help him with this issue there are00:22:55
like 100 200 people that maybe have have00:22:58
the same problem who can also comment on00:23:01
his stuff and uh and help me fix all the00:23:04
problems and make sure that the people00:23:06
actually can use this and to give you00:23:09
kind of an impression what instapy can00:23:11
do here's a little list of features of00:23:14
course you can do following liking00:23:16
unfollowing commenting you can like by00:23:18
tag and you can Target your users00:23:21
specifically by location for example if00:23:23
you have a um a pizzeria or uh any kind00:23:27
of shop you can make sure that only00:23:30
people in your location will be notified00:23:33
of course it works on a server so you00:23:34
can use digital Ocean or any kind of00:23:36
virtual server to run it it's has Docker00:23:40
support you can write you can post00:23:43
emojis and one interesting thing is00:23:47
clarify I don't know how many of you00:23:49
know clarify but it's an image uh smart00:23:53
image recognition API and with it you00:23:56
can make sure that you don't like any00:23:57
not safe work stuff or inappropriate00:23:59
stuff or maybe you're you're from some00:24:01
country and you don't want to like nude00:24:04
stuff or it depends on your preferences00:24:06
and you can really make sure that the00:24:08
comment pictures you comment on and00:24:09
people you follow are not some kind of00:24:12
weirdos00:24:14
here and I think the API is pretty00:24:16
interesting too so this is what it looks00:24:18
like you just have to import instapy00:24:20
from instapy and in the insta Pyon00:24:23
structure you can then just pass your00:24:26
username and password and after the look00:24:28
in you can do some settings in this case00:24:30
we will just make sure that we don't00:24:32
interact with any account that has more00:24:34
than 2 and a half thousand followers and00:24:37
we want to do commenting on 10% as well00:24:40
as following on 10% we want to use the00:24:43
comments cool awesome and nice um and we00:24:46
want to make sure that this this bot00:24:48
don't interact with our real friends so00:24:50
we can make sure that our real friends00:24:52
are not included here and of course we00:24:55
can do some text search where not safe00:24:58
from work and naked are excluded and00:25:01
what if some of these don't include00:25:03
words are included in the text it will00:25:05
skip the P the picture and not like it00:25:08
and then we can finally do some liking00:25:10
by tags for example in this case we will00:25:12
just like 100 pictures for nature and00:25:16
c and let's talk about open source in00:25:19
general and why it's important and I'm00:25:22
pretty sure a lot of people in here00:25:24
already do open source and this is00:25:25
awesome but those who don't know those00:25:28
who don't do it you really have to think00:25:31
think about it if you have any project00:25:33
on your on your hard drive that could be00:25:35
open source why not do it I mean all of00:25:38
all in here already use open source for00:25:41
their projects but why not give00:25:43
something back to the community if you00:25:45
have something laying around it doesn't00:25:46
matter if you contribute it to GitHub or00:25:49
gitlab and make it open source for00:25:51
people to use it and I think this is00:25:53
really the most important thing to think00:25:56
about it's also good for new developers00:25:59
to build a portfolio because people will00:26:01
find you on the internet and if you got00:26:03
great stuff they might contact you might00:26:06
want to work with you and even companies00:26:08
get interested in00:26:10
you and this is where you get00:26:12
opportunities from and if you if you00:26:15
really look interesting they'll contact00:26:17
you so you don't have to send out00:26:19
any any papers or something like that to00:26:22
make to app applicate on uh00:26:27
companies00:26:28
to make it nice for you and give you a00:26:31
little bit of motivation here is what00:26:33
open source did for me by now I got 1200:26:37
job offers and nine internship off00:26:39
internship offers sorry from around the00:26:41
world as well as a ton of new contacts00:26:44
that contacted me through instapy and I00:26:46
think this really speaks for itself if00:26:48
you got something that's that's00:26:51
interesting and maybe a little bit00:26:54
controversial it's00:26:55
really just a matter of time until until00:26:58
people think about it and and talk about00:27:01
it and really give you feedback on it00:27:05
and want to help out and these job00:27:07
offers and contexts are from around the00:27:09
world including Sweden Sydney argentinia00:27:13
Brazilia the UK USA even from uh Ireland00:27:19
and Singapore or Shanghai and I think00:27:22
this really speaks for itself and of00:27:25
course I got this talk from it which is00:27:28
nice for me as00:27:31
well to close this off here are some00:27:34
tips I think are really important for00:27:37
your open source portfolio if you're00:27:38
interested in in doing some open source00:27:41
stuff make sure to include or to keep00:27:44
this information and make sure to00:27:47
improve these tips00:27:49
here the first one is ADD documentation00:27:53
I've seen so many projects out there who00:27:56
has not have have no real documentation00:28:00
and this is this is really crucial I00:28:02
know it's annoying for people to write00:28:04
documentation but if people don't00:28:07
understand your project or don't even00:28:08
know what the features of your project00:28:10
are this is this just insane how should00:28:13
they use should they look take a look00:28:15
into the P code I don't think so really00:28:19
few people actually do00:28:22
that the second is spread the word you00:28:24
can use channels like hecken news Reddit00:28:27
or def post something like this to make00:28:29
sure that people actually see00:28:31
your pro um your portfolio and your00:28:34
projects to make sure that you get00:28:36
feedback and and people to get people to00:28:40
talk about your00:28:41
tool and if nobody since nobody if00:28:44
nobody hears about your project of00:28:46
course nobody will use00:28:48
it the last one is support the users and00:28:51
this is really time consuming but it's00:28:54
really worth it it's a lot of work but00:28:56
it's worth it and00:28:59
if somebody uses your tool and he stops00:29:01
using your00:29:02
tool because they don't get it to work00:29:05
they will never come back and you you00:29:08
lost a chance to get a new user so what00:29:11
what's next for for instapy and this00:29:14
project we want you to take a look at it00:29:18
maybe contribute it use it give us00:29:20
feedback and maybe add some issues or00:29:22
something like that we will we want to00:29:24
add new features like a00:29:26
guey smar to follow in a more human00:29:29
Automation and like like I said if you00:29:32
have any questions or recommendations00:29:35
offers anything just make sure to00:29:37
contact me on any of the social medias00:29:39
or Gmail and I'll be happy to chat later00:29:43
or through one of these channels thank00:29:45
you for your attentionDescription:
Check out the tool InstaPy: https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy Read the article here: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/my-open-source-instagram-bot-got-me-2-500-real-followers-for-5-in-server-costs-e40491358340 Selenium is a tool mostly used for testing GUI applications, but it also gives you the ability to automate online interactions e.g. logging in to your social media accounts and liking the posts of others. Testing shouldn't be the only domain Selenium is the tool to go! Join me for insights about automating the fast changing webpage of Instagram.
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