Instapy: Fresh install on Ubuntu LTS 18.04.1 virtual machine

Created on 6 Feb 2019 · 6Comments · Source: timgrossmann/InstaPy

I installed a new Ubuntu server 18.04.1 LTS on Vmware Workstation 15

It comes with Python 3.6.7

python3 --version
Python 3.6.7

No pip installed, so:

sudo apt install python3-pip

Checked the version of pip3

pip3 --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.6)

Installed Instapy via pip3

pip3 install instapy

Copy pasted quickstart template for the first run and set _headless_browser_ to True

""" Quickstart script for InstaPy usage """
# imports
from instapy import InstaPy
from instapy import smart_run

# login credentials
insta_username = ''  # <- enter username here
insta_password = ''  # <- enter password here

# get an InstaPy session!
# set headless_browser=True to run InstaPy in the background
session = InstaPy(username=insta_username,
                  password=insta_password,
                  headless_browser=False)

with smart_run(session):
    """ Activity flow """
    # general settings
    session.set_relationship_bounds(enabled=True,
                                    delimit_by_numbers=True,
                                    max_followers=4590,
                                    min_followers=45,
                                    min_following=77)

    session.set_dont_include(["friend1", "friend2", "friend3"])
    session.set_dont_like(["pizza", "#store"])

    # activity
    session.like_by_tags(["natgeo"], amount=10)

First run

python3 quickstart.py

Got this error:

INFO [2019-02-06 11:57:28] [instauser]  Using built in instapy-chromedriver executable (version 2.44)
ERROR [2019-02-06 11:57:29] [instauser]  Message: Service /home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instapy_chromedriver/chromedriver_linux64 unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instapy/browser.py", line 123, in set_selenium_local_session
    chrome_options=chrome_options)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 98, in start
    self.assert_process_still_running()
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 111, in assert_process_still_running
    % (self.path, return_code)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service /home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instapy_chromedriver/chromedriver_linux64 unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "quickstart.py", line 14, in <module>
    headless_browser=True)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instapy/instapy.py", line 276, in __init__
    self.set_selenium_local_session()
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instapy/instapy.py", line 328, in set_selenium_local_session
    raise InstaPyError(err_msg)
instapy.exceptions.InstaPyError: ensure chromedriver is installed at /home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instapy_chromedriver/chromedriver_linux64

ls -la .local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instapy_chromedriver

total 34460
drwxrwxr-x  3 user user     4096 Feb  6 10:53 .
drwx------ 53 user user     4096 Feb  6 10:53 ..
-rwxrwxr-x  1 user user 11808880 Feb  6 11:54 chromedriver_linux64
-rwxrwxr-x  1 user user 14780812 Feb  6 11:54 chromedriver_mac64
-rwxrwxr-x  1 user user  8674304 Feb  6 11:54 chromedriver_win32.exe
-rw-rw-r--  1 user user      940 Feb  6 11:54 `__init__.py`
drwxrwxr-x  2 user user     4096 Feb  6 10:53 __pycache__

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