Instapy: Follow and unfollow don't work when using nogui=True

[rvarseveld]

Hi,

I downloaded InstaPy last weekend and got it running smoothly since then. It works great although there's one big issue since a couple of days: unfollow doesn't work.

The followedPool.csv is being filled with followed account names without any problems. When a new run starts with unfollowing accounts from this pool the output shows accounts are being unfollowed but in reality only a few out of 100 accounts are actually being unfollowed.

This is my unfollow setting:

session.unfollow_users(amount=100, onlyInstapyFollowed = True, onlyInstapyMethod = 'FIFO', sleep_delay=60 )

Should I change the sleep_delay to 600? I read somewhere that you have to wait 10 minutes after unfollowing 10 accounts. But the default sleep_delay was set to 60 when I first checked out InstaPy.

[Sillanmaki]

I got some issues with unfollowing. It unfollows everybody from pool but still there was users to unfollow but they were not in the pool. So I made unfollow to its own session after following and it's now working fine after couple tests.

Like this:

session = InstaPy(username=insta_username, password=insta_password)
session.login()
session.set_do_comment(True, percentage=10)
session.like_by_tags(['natgeo', 'world'], amount=100)
session.end()

session = InstaPy(username=insta_username, password=insta_password)
session.login()
session.unfollow_users(amount=10, onlyInstapyFollowed = True, onlyInstapyMethod = 'FIFO', sleep_delay=60)
session.end()

EDIT: Didn't solve my problem.

[pleum]

I got same issues. i try to fix it with new xpath and it worked on my pc can you try this?
https://github.com/pleum/InstaPy/commit/92240e20b6d4d8416646a64f8cb8370c5cc30d50

[converge]

@pleum @Sillanmaki @rvarseveld can you guys help testing #915 ? after that, we can merge.

[Sillanmaki]

My problem is that bot starts follow users which are not mentioned in console and that's why they are not in followedPool (I don't know why, when or how). I try to figure it out.

[rvarseveld]

I still have the same problem and follow now also has issues.

I set the percentage follows to 35% and in the output it says quite some users are being followed but in reality only a very few users are actually being followed (for example, only 2 users in about 1 hour).

[rvarseveld]

@converge so it looks likes the original issue has not been fixed and is more complicated than I thought as it not only involves unfollows but follows too (which is even more important).

[rvarseveld]

@converge @timgrossmann

I did some more testing and found out the follow/unfollow issue only occurs when running the script on my server using nogui=True

When I run the script locally on my laptop then everything seems to work fine.

[rvarseveld]

So a short summary here:

Running on a DigitalOcean US server using nogui=True:

• Liking works fine
• Commenting works fine
• Following doesn't work (only a few out of 100 whereas in the log it says it followed 100)
• Unfollowing doesn't work (only 1 out of 100 whereas in the log it says it unfollowed 100)

Running on macbook:

• No problems

So there is something going wrong when using a virtual display. I'm a developer myself but not familiar with Selenium nor Python. I used the following guide to set up my server: https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/blob/master/docs/How_To_DO_Ubuntu_on_Digital_Ocean.md

@timgrossmann @converge not sure whether you guys have an idea what the cause might be but is there some further testing I can do?

[timgrossmann]

@rvarseveld Have you updated the chrome driver and pulled the newest InstaPy version?

[rvarseveld]

@timgrossmann Yes, I will do some further testing to see whether I can pinpoint this issue.

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