Instapy: WARNING [2019-08-18 13:19:18] [***] --> Couldn't follow '***'! ~user is inaccessible

[Tr1pke]

Expected Behavior

follow the user

Current Behavior

WARNING [2019-08-18 13:19:18] [dino.runs] --> Couldn't follow '*'! ~user is inaccessible

InstaPy configuration

    session.set_do_follow(enabled=True, percentage=15, times=1)
    session.set_do_comment(enabled=True, percentage=75)
    session.set_comments([
 'Awesome!',
 'Really cool',
 'Nice !',
 'Great !',
 'Leuk !',
 'I like your stuff',
 'very nice pictures'])
    session.like_by_tags(['***','***','***','***','***','***','***','swimbikerun'], amount=50)
    session.set_do_like(enabled=True, percentage=75)

This part is correct right?

[jm-willy]

Don't know but I guess:

1. You have been blocked
2. Or the account changed its name while InstaPy was running
3. Or internet connection/chrome/instagram failed

Can you check these options?

---

How was the warning generated:

---

def is_page_available(browser, logger):
    """ Check if the page is available and valid """
    expected_keywords = ["Page Not Found", "Content Unavailable"]
    page_title = get_page_title(browser, logger)

    if any(keyword in page_title for keyword in expected_keywords):
        reload_webpage(browser)
        page_title = get_page_title(browser, logger)

        if any(keyword in page_title for keyword in expected_keywords):
            if "Page Not Found" in page_title:
                logger.warning(
                    "The page isn't available!\t~the link may be broken, "
                    "or the page may have been removed..."
                )

            elif "Content Unavailable" in page_title:
                logger.warning(
                    "The page isn't available!\t~the user may have blocked " "you..."
                )

            return False

    return True

---

# check if the page is available
    valid_page = is_page_available(browser, logger)
    if not valid_page:
        logger.warning(user_inaccessible_msg)
        person_new = verify_username_by_id(
            browser, username, person, None, logger, logfolder
        )
        if person_new:
            web_address_navigator(browser, ig_homepage + person_new)
            valid_page = is_page_available(browser, logger)
            if not valid_page:
                logger.error(failure_msg.format(person_new.encode("utf-8")))
                return "UNAVAILABLE", None

        else:
            logger.error(failure_msg.format(person.encode("utf-8")))
            return "UNAVAILABLE", None

---

        elif following_status in ["Unblock", "UNAVAILABLE"]:
            if following_status == "Unblock":
                failure_msg = "user is in block"

            elif following_status == "UNAVAILABLE":
                failure_msg = "user is inaccessible"

            logger.warning(
                "--> Couldn't follow '{}'!\t~{}".format(user_name, failure_msg)

[Tr1pke]

It’s none of both.

I can still follow with this :
session.follow_user_followers(['xxx','xxx','xxx','xxx'], amount=3, randomize=True, interact=False)

And the link is the same because I can click on it and then I see my like / comment

[Mr-HaleYa]

To anybody still having this issue on 6.1
Its caused by a typo in the file xpath_compile.py

Line 83 "follow_button_XP": "(//button)[2][text()='Following' or \

It looks like this ^^^

It needs to look like this

Line 83 "follow_button_XP": "//button[text()='Following' or \

That will fix it.

[jonap339]

Excellent contribution @Mr-HaleYa again as always. thank you!!

[Tr1pke]

It was already like this in version 0.6.2 but still same problem ...

[howaad15]

I'm still having this issue with unfollowing....

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[siddhantchimankar]

The problem is still there

[Mr-HaleYa]

@siddhantchimankar The problem most likely will never be fixed since this project is dying...