Instapy: Ensure chromedriver is installed

[HermanPierre]

Hello :)

First i want to say I tried everything said in the #2372 issue and it didn't worked for me.
I tried everything and i still have the error of chrome driver, i use putty, and i'm trying to start the bot in headless mode, i also tried with vnc and it didn't worked.

The error :

ERROR [2018-08-04 12:06:25] [hpierre.photo] Message: Service /home/pi/Projects/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: -4
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/Projects/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 302, in set_selenium_local_session
chrome_options=chrome_options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 62, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 86, in start
self.assert_process_still_running()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 99, in assert_process_still_running
% (self.path, return_code)
WebDriverException: Message: Service /home/pi/Projects/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: -4
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "quickstart.py", line 25, in
multi_logs=True)
File "/home/pi/Projects/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 195, in __init__
self.set_selenium_local_session()
File "/home/pi/Projects/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 306, in set_selenium_local_session
Settings.chromedriver_location))
instapy.instapy.InstaPyError: ensure chromedriver is installed at /home/pi/Projects/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver

InstaPy configuration

Quickstart.py :

import os
import time
from tempfile import gettempdir
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from instapy import InstaPy
import random
insta_username = '--------'
insta_password = '---------'
session = InstaPy(username=insta_username,
password=insta_password,
headless_browser=True,
page_delay=5,
nogui=True,
multi_logs=True)
try:
session.login()
session.set_relationship_bounds(enabled=True,
potency_ratio=-0.5,
delimit_by_numbers=True,
max_followers=15000,
max_following=15000,
min_followers=0,
min_following=0)
session.set_do_comment(True, percentage=10)
session.set_comments([''])
session.set_dont_include(['clmt_bdnl','maxime_nourrigat','teixeira_marine','jeanluc3302','hugo_castelli','sanchez.luucas','mathisalepis','constant_lb','peneraphael','popo.martin91','timothebillon','yuung_bth','anais_anaaais','_seb91940','anthooo_91','tristan.nicolle','tim.pyt','tonylvg','servaneka','raynaudmuriel5','tom_dzt','clarisseherman','nicogr2','bermond_toinou','lilian__ctr','imagxnez','killian_ttrd','benzoned','dadouboy','clauu_ng','tapia_killian','eliottiste','bttyyyyd','loan_lfb','maurinecmts','__joko','marguihr','lauralineeugene','pierrejean_bergeron','thomas_algara','arthur_lair','instaambre','morgui_g','pichy_malfoy','camille_jehanno'])
session.set_dont_like([''])
session.set_user_interact(amount=random.randint(0,2), percentage=16,randomize=True,media='Photo')
session.set_do_like(enabled=True, percentage=20)
# actions
#session.follow_likers (['brandonwoelfel', 'littleshao','lebackpacker'], photos_grab_amount = random.randint(2,12), follow_likers_per_photo = random.randint(100,200), randomize=True, sleep_delay=(random.randint(100, 3600)), interact=True)
session.unfollow_users(amount=random.randint(40, 170), nonFollowers=True, style="RANDOM", unfollow_after=60, sleep_delay=random.randint(100, 3600))
session.unfollow_users(amount=random.randint(40, 170), InstapyFollowed=(True, "all"), style="RANDOM", unfollow_after=486060, sleep_delay=random.randint(100, 3600))
except Exception as exc:
# if changes to IG layout, upload the file to help us locate the change
if isinstance(exc, NoSuchElementException):
file_path = os.path.join(gettempdir(), '{}.html'.format(time.strftime('%Y%m%d-%H%M%S')))
with open(file_path, 'wb') as fp:
fp.write(session.browser.page_source.encode('utf8'))
print('{0}\nIf raising an issue, please also upload the file located at:\n{1}\n{0}'.format(
'*' * 70, file_path))
# full stacktrace when raising Github issue
raise
finally:
# end the bot session
session.end()

settings.py :

import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
class Settings:
log_location = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'logs')
database_location = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db', 'instapy.db')
chromedriver_location = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets', 'chromedriver')
chromedriver_min_version = 2.33
# Set a logger cache outside the InstaPy object to avoid re-instantiation issues
loggers = {}
logger = None
# Set current profile credentials for DB operations
profile = {"id":None, "name":None}

[insology]

did you put chrome drivers in asset dir?

[HermanPierre]

@insology yes of course

[insology]

which platform are you using? Osx? Or linux?

[HermanPierre]

Raspi B+ 2 raspbian

[insology]

is chrome browser install?

[HermanPierre]

Yes of course too

[rafaelfcsouza]

Can you:
1) ls -lha into the InstaPy/assets folder?
2) Give the output on: google-chrome --version

[HermanPierre]

Yes :)

ls -lha :

total 200K
drwxr-xr-x 13 pi pi 4,0K août 4 11:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4,0K août 3 21:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 12K août 3 21:20 api.json
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4,0K août 3 22:16 assets
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 3,2K août 3 21:20 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K août 3 22:19 db
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 163 août 3 21:20 docker-allinone.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 470 août 3 21:20 docker-compose.yml
drwxr-xr-x 6 pi pi 4,0K août 3 21:20 docker_conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 370 août 3 21:20 docker-dev.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 182 août 3 21:20 .dockerignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 334 août 3 21:20 docker-prod.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1,2K août 3 21:20 docker_quickstart.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1,3K août 3 21:20 docker-swarm.yml
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4,0K août 3 21:20 docs
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4,0K août 3 21:20 examples
drwxr-xr-x 8 pi pi 4,0K août 3 21:20 .git
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4,0K août 3 21:20 .github
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1,3K août 3 21:20 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4,0K août 4 12:05 instapy
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1,1K août 3 21:20 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4,0K août 3 22:19 logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 50 août 3 21:20 MANIFEST.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2,1K août 3 21:20 proxy_extension.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 3,1K août 4 12:06 quickstart.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 66K août 3 21:20 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 51 août 3 21:20 requirements.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4,0K août 3 21:20 scripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 587 août 3 21:20 setup.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4,0K août 3 21:20 tests
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 717 août 3 21:20 .travis.yml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 215 août 3 21:20 wait-for-selenium.sh

google-chrome --version :

He's saying google-chrome command doesn't exist, but maybe it's because i have chromium ?

Thanks :)

[rafaelfcsouza]

I meant ls -lha assets sorry for the confusion.

[HermanPierre]

@rafaelfcsouza yes there it is :

total 6,8M
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4,0K août 3 22:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 pi pi 4,0K août 4 11:49 ..
-rwsrwsrwt 1 root root 6,8M août 3 22:16 chromedriver
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 61 août 3 21:20 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 489 août 3 21:20 unicodes.md

(chromedriver is highlighted in red on my terminal i don't know if it's important or not)

[awesome205]

I'm having the same issue and I know that chrome and chromedriver are both downloaded and chromedriver is inside assets but I am still getting the same error that says " chromedriver is not in assets"

Can someone please help?

[kushpvo]

I am having the same issue.
But, chromedriver is right there in the assets folder

[arcasoy]

Me too! I have tried many things but nothing has worked. Help/tips?

[kushpvo]

Try this!

3312

[converge]

two things:

• you're using nogui and headless_browser, choose one, they do the same.
• use python3

[converge]

Inactive issue, reopen if you need assistance.

[PhilippSPOTTERON]

Same issue on Raspberry Pi 3, please reopened.

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[BahramJannesar]

did you put chrome drivers in asset dir?

It works, on Linux ---> mv chromedriver /home/user/InstaPy/assets
then run it .