Instapy: Getting pyvirtualdisplay error.

[sankalpsingha]

Running it in my Ubuntu Server raises error :

root:~/InstaPy# pip install pyvirtualdisplay
Requirement already satisfied: pyvirtualdisplay in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied: EasyProcess in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from pyvirtualdisplay)
root:~/InstaPy# python quickstart.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "quickstart.py", line 1, in <module>
    from instapy import InstaPy
  File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .instapy import InstaPy
  File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
ImportError: No module named pyvirtualdisplay

[timgrossmann]

@sankalpsingha

pip install pyvirtualdisplay

....

Please follow the instructions and just do a

pip install .

[sankalpsingha]

I did. I am still getting the error.

Processing /root/InstaPy
  Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): instagram-py==0.0.1 from file:///root/InstaPy in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied: selenium==2.53.6 in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from instagram-py==0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: clarifai==2.0.20 in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from instagram-py==0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pyvirtualdisplay in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from instagram-py==0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: future==0.15.2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from clarifai==2.0.20->instagram-py==0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow==2.9.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from clarifai==2.0.20->instagram-py==0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: requests==2.13.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from clarifai==2.0.20->instagram-py==0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: configparser==3.5.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from clarifai==2.0.20->instagram-py==0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: jsonschema==2.5.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from clarifai==2.0.20->instagram-py==0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: EasyProcess in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from pyvirtualdisplay->instagram-py==0.0.1)
root:~/InstaPy#
root:~/InstaPy# python quickstart.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "quickstart.py", line 1, in <module>
    from instapy import InstaPy
  File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .instapy import InstaPy
  File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
ImportError: No module named pyvirtualdisplay

[timgrossmann]

Do you run it locally?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27109176/importerror-no-module-named-display

[bigdropgr]

Hi @timgrossmann, I run it on CentOs VPS but I get the same error.

[timgrossmann]

@sankalpsingha @bigdropgr

apt list --installed | grep Xvfb

Make sure Xvfb is installed

[wizarduk]

im getting the same issue

[converge]

@wizarduk what's your python version ?

[wizarduk]

This is the error @converge

python quickstart.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "quickstart.py", line 1, in
from instapy import InstaPy
File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/__init__.py", line 1, in
from .instapy import InstaPy
File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 8, in
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
ImportError: No module named pyvirtualdisplay
root@sam:~/InstaPy# python3 quickstart.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "quickstart.py", line 8, in
session = InstaPy(username=insta_username, password=insta_password)
File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 106, in __init__
self.set_selenium_local_session()
File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 152, in set_selenium_local_session
chrome_options=chrome_options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__
desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 90, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 177, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.29.461571 (8a88bbe0775e2a23afda0ceaf2ef7ee74e822cc5),platform=Linux 2.6.32-042stab125.3 x86_64)

[converge]

@wizarduk have you tried it ?
pip3.4 install pyvirtualdisplay

[wizarduk]

@converge says this

Requirement already satisfied: pyvirtualdisplay in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied: EasyProcess in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages (from pyvirtualdisplay)

[rotohun]

I had the same issue, I used pip instead of pip3* and then installed each one individually.

[rotohun]

Then started the script using python instead of python3 to use previous python download and installs.

[wizarduk]

@rotohun how did u do this ?

[converge]

the point is, this error occurs because python version and pip version are differents. for example python command points to python2.7 and pip points to pip3.6 for example, in this way python can't localize the 2.7 version of pyvirtualdisplay.

the fix is, use same version for python and pip, if your

python --version shows 3.6, you should use pip3.6 and so on.

[wizarduk]

@converge thanks its sorted i made a silly mistake.