Instapy: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyvirtualdisplay'

[Indo-Scythian]

Hello,

Would some kind soul be willing to help me? I'm running Windows 10. The simple setup did not work so I'm using the advanced setup. In 3.1 "py get-pip.py" did not work. I'm not sure if it is related to the problem I'm going to mention.

So with the GUI, when I start the automation, the CMD window closes in a split second. I typed pause in the bat file to see what the message was and this is it:

D:\Users\Nav\Desktop\InstaPy-master>set PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8

D:\Users\Nav\Desktop\InstaPy-master>py quickstart.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "quickstart.py", line 1, in <module>
    from instapy import InstaPy
  File "D:\Users\Nav\Desktop\InstaPy-master\instapy\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .instapy import InstaPy
  File "D:\Users\Nav\Desktop\InstaPy-master\instapy\instapy.py", line 8, in <module>
    from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyvirtualdisplay'

D:\Users\Nav\Desktop\InstaPy-master>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

I attempted to manually install pyvirtualdisplay, but it said that it is already installed:

D:\Users\Nav\Desktop\PyVirtualDisplay-0.2.1\pyvirtualdisplay>pip install pyvirtualdisplay
Requirement already satisfied: pyvirtualdisplay in c:\program files (x86)\python36\lib\site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: EasyProcess in c:\program files (x86)\python36\lib\site-packages (from pyvirtualdisplay)

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https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20pyvirtualdisplay

[Indo-Scythian]

I don't why y'all were so quick to close this. I made this post because I used the search and failed to find a solution. #675 gives me this:

D:\Users\Nav\Desktop\PyVirtualDisplay-0.2.1\pyvirtualdisplay>pip install pyvirtualdisplay
Requirement already satisfied: pyvirtualdisplay in c:\program files (x86)\python36\lib\site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: EasyProcess in c:\program files (x86)\python36\lib\site-packages (from pyvirtualdisplay)

Which I posted in the OP. I also followed #638 which told me to use the following to find the list of currently installed modules. pyvirtualdisplay is already on there.

C:>python.exe
help ("modules")

I then followed #10 and still it did not work. I even deleted the pyvirtualdisplay folder where it was located and successfully installed it again but the program still thinks there is no module.

[timgrossmann]

@Indo-Scythian which python version are you using?

probably simply doing pip3.5 or pip3.6 install xxxxxxx will solve the problem

[amaanr]

Getting the same issue, not sure what's happening?
Running: pip3.5 install pyvirtualdisplay, gives:
````
Requirement already satisfied: pyvirtualdisplay in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied: EasyProcess in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages (from pyvirtualdisplay)

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@amaanr try

python3.5 quickstart.py

(if your setup is at quickstart.py)

[nocomp]

hi,
no gui mode works like a charm, but gui version is having this pyvirtualdisplay error
i tried pip3.5 install pyvirtualdisplay pip3 install pyvirtualdisplay and pip install pyvirtualdisplay all tell me that it is installed

how can i get this fixed? any clue?
thxx for your help

best regards

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@nocomp what does python --version and pip --version shows ?

[nocomp]

hi,
thxx for your reply
here is what i have
nocomp@ubuntu:~/InstaPy$ pip --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages (python 3.5)
nocomp@ubuntu:~/InstaPy$

nocomp@ubuntu:~/InstaPy$ python --version
Python 2.7.12
nocomp@ubuntu:~/InstaPy$

i run the quickstart.py using python3.5

would be great to find a fix, using last ubuntu version 16.04
thxx a lot

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when you say gui version, are you referring to this https://github.com/ahmadudin/electron-instaPy-GUI ? or nogui=False ?

I don't know exactly where the issue is, for me, people were using pip (to python2) and python (python3), but now I can see you're doing it right using the same version when using python3 and installing modules using pip (pip3).

Have you tried upgrade the package ? pip install pyvirtualdisplay -U

what happen if you try:

python3.5 <enter>
import pyvirtualdisplay

If you want, Im at our slack workspace (link at readme)

[nocomp]

hi,
this is what i get
nocomp@ubuntu:~/InstaPy$ pip install pyvirtualdisplay -U
Requirement already up-to-date: pyvirtualdisplay in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages
Requirement already up-to-date: EasyProcess in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages (from pyvirtualdisplay)
nocomp@ubuntu:~/InstaPy$

i tried to import pyvirtualdisplay i get no error what so ever, but the gui version ( yes the one you posted the link) still gives me the pyvirtualdisplay error :'(

i am not a python expert, dunno what python version this gui is using :/
many thanks for your time and your help

[nocomp]

is there a way to force python3.5 to be the default version to use?

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@nocomp unfortunately I never used the GUI version before, I can't help.

It's quite simple, are you using Debian ? https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-from-default-to-alternative-python-version-on-debian-linux

[nocomp]

thxx a lot,
did the changes described in the link, and it worked
nocomp@ubuntu:~$ python --version
Python 3.5.2
nocomp@ubuntu:~$

but didn t fixed the gui issue :'(

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@nocomp maybe GUI requires python 2.7 , pip2.7 install pyvirtualdisplay

[nocomp]

here we go...
python2.7
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import pyvirtualdisplay
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ImportError: No module named pyvirtualdisplay
install pyvirtualdisplay
File "", line 1
install pyvirtualdisplay
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

i think you are right :)

how do i install this module for 2.7 ?

thxx a again for your time

[nocomp]

getting near, now miss selenium

[nocomp]

after have install selenium, i get this :'(
Error: ImportError: No module named requests

raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[nocomp]

question, running in cli mode, used to work fine, but now all pictures gets labeled "INFO - --> Image not liked: Inappropriate" and when i llok at the picture, looks fine to me, any idea what can go wrong?
here is my code:

session.like_by_tags(['fpv', 'fpvlife', 'fpvracing', 'fpvaddiction', 'fpvracer', 'fpvaddict', 'fpvwing', 'android', 'androidography', 'sector9', 'argonay', 'drone', 'uav', 'patrouilledefrance', 'downhillskateboarding'], amount=200, media='Photo')

used to work fine

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@nocomp pls, paste all your quickstart.py file (without passwd)

[nocomp]

here we go, thxx a lot

session.login()

session.set_dont_like([''])
session.like_by_tags(['fpv', 'fpvlife', 'fpvracing', 'fpvaddiction', 'fpvracer', 'fpvaddict', 'fpvwing', 'android', 'androidography', 'sector9', 'argonay', 'drone', 'uav', 'patrouilledefrance', 'downhillskateboarding'], amount=200 )

session.like_by_tags(['android', 'androidography', 'androidonly', 'androidographer', 'photooftheday', 'pictureoftheday'], amount=200,)

session.follow_user_followers(['name1', 'name2', 'name3'], amount=50, randomize=False, sleep_delay=60)

session.end()

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remove the set_dont_like line will fix it.

[nocomp]

oh weird, i think it has been added by the gui mode, never wanted to have this.
i ve removed it and it still doesn t work.
does it work for you?
can you add sleep time also for session.like_by_tags ?
is there a possibility to scheddule it too?

thxx for your help

[nocomp]

i ve removed this and now it works

session.like_by_tags(['android', 'androidography', 'androidonly', 'androidographer', 'photooftheday', 'pictureoftheday'], amount=200,)

session.follow_user_followers(['name1', 'name2', 'name3'], amount=50, randomize=False, sleep_delay=60)

weird no?