pythonat-instalib 1.1.0

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Author : Eng. Nasser AlOstath [e-mail] pythonatinstagramtool, is a simple library/bot developed by The CEO of www.dotslashhack.io for educational perposes as an asset code to an article written in arabic for www.pythonat.com that talks about writing and uploading a user built python package to pypi.org so that it can be installed using pip.

this library is opensource that yields to the MIT license.

for more information, please check www.pythonat.com or www.dotslashhack.io to contact the author

this library is build mainly on top of selenium and webdriver-manager

the webdriver-manager library is usefull because it will automatically find and download the suitable browser webdriver depending on it’s version and OS.

NOTE:

it is always better to keep you instagram credentials in a separate file and import them here

installation

pip install pythonat-instalib

usage

# importing username and password of instagram account from a separate auth.py file
from auth import username,password

#creating a bot instace with credentials
bot = Bot("chrome",username,password)

#searching using a keyword
bot.find("#plymouthroadrunner")

# getting images and posts
posts, images = bot.get_posts(10)

# creating a folder of downloaded images
bot.download_pics_from_page(images,"./plymouthroadrunner","Roady")