Instapy: [Question] Stop bot if action blocked

[brunano21]

Hi,
if not available already, I would like to suggest implementing to stop the bot as soon as an action is blocked, like "like", "follow", etc.

I believe it would make sense to stop it and not to continue with actions, because they would be unsuccessful.

[mh2git]

Yeah also . I think instapy should read the past logs and take action accordingly

[leo1in88]

yes its should be like that.

[michn]

agreed

[yoannes]

A very dirty and quick solution until such feature is implemented:

go to instapy/ directory and open the file like_util.py

at beginning of the file (under import re) add
import sys

find and change this function:

def verify_liked_image(browser, logger):
    """Check for a ban on likes using the last liked image"""

    browser.refresh()
    unlike_xpath = read_xpath(like_image.__name__, "unlike")
    like_elem = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(unlike_xpath)

    if len(like_elem) == 1:
        return True
    else:
        logger.info('-------- WARNING! Image was NOT liked! You are have a BLOCK on likes!')
        sys.exit(0)          # <------------------- ADD THIS LINE
        return False

This is not a permanent solution, but it's better then keep trying to like while blocked.

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