Instapy: Follow by likers not working

[renmatheus]

Expected Behavior

Follow by likers

Current Behavior

Get the message "video has no likes" for every user.
Everything was working fine two days ago

Possible Solution (optional)

InstaPy configuration

[w4ngel]

This is due to Instagram changing the design so the script cannot see which users have liked a video. A solution would be to skip video media.

[renmatheus]

Thanks for the quick response. I just thought it was odd to see every single username giving the same video error. The thing is that those were supposed to be photos.

[bobbyjer]

I have the same issue as well

[w4ngel]

Thanks for the quick response. I just thought it was odd to see every single username giving the same video error. The thing is that those were supposed to be photos.

Yeah it can happen if the first photo, or any photo for that matter is a video within the first 12, and one that is randomly picked. A fix has yet to be pushed for it.

[hw711]

video message is misleading. the xpath for the button changed. in commenter_util, you just have to add another /div to the path (2 lines)

def likers_from_photo(browser, amount=20):

user_liked_list = []
try:
    liked_this = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div/article/div[2]/section[2]/div/div/a")
    likers = []
    for liker in liked_this:
        if "like this" not in liker.text:
            likers.append(liker.text)        
    if check_exists_by_xpath(browser, "//div/article/div[2]/section[2]/div/div/a"):

[bobbyjer]

video message is misleading. the xpath for the button changed. in commenter_util, you just have to add another /div to the path (2 lines)

def likers_from_photo(browser, amount=20):

user_liked_list = []
try:
    liked_this = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div/article/div[2]/section[2]/div/div/a")
    likers = []
    for liker in liked_this:
        if "like this" not in liker.text:
            likers.append(liker.text)        
    if check_exists_by_xpath(browser, "//div/article/div[2]/section[2]/div/div/a"):

Thanks hw, it works for me.

[brahimdev]

following you guys .

[octavius-1]

@hw711 Modified those lines and magically worked, thanks.

[DmytroDiachuk]

I had same problem 1 day ago. Today, I have reinstalled InstaPy and "Follow by likers" works again

[pez5001]

Looks like it was fixed here
https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/commit/ad05cef3b5f412d68d6da915858f7a969241955b

I'm still seeing an issue with finding likers though, the code that clicks the button to open up the modal with all of the likers expects it to be labeled "likes", if it instead says "liked by \ and \ others" it fails and just returns ["<account>", "<count> others"] as the likers

[pez5001]

got a fix working here:
https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/pull/3458

[timgrossmann]

@pez5001 Could someone verify the fix provided by pez, please?

[octavius-1]

@pez5001 Could someone verify the fix provided by pez, please?

@timgrossmann Fixed now, the only scenario where that Message is shown now is if you’re trying to get likers from a video

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[renmatheus]

Fixed, thanks