Instapy: [Windows] - Firefox portable - Instructions to avoid "binary is not a Firefox executable"

[MCilento93]

Expected Behavior

Testing how InstaPy works.

Current Behavior

Same troubles even if I tried a lot.
I tried InstaPy, instapy-quickstart, to install drivers for firefox or chrome, setting the drivers in PATH ... nothing
I have not firefox on my pc because I want to use Google Chrome.

Possible Solution (optional)

InstaPy configuration

last release

[elulcao]

Chrome is not supported,
use FireFox instead.

 13 ## [0.6.0] - 2019-08-12
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 11 ### Added
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  9 - Firefox Extension which hides Selenium
  8 - Black code formatter
  7 - Mobile user agent
  6 - Mobile Mode to enable mobile features
  5 - Screen shots (rotative screen shots are taken and saved in your InstaPy user folde    r)
  4 - Connection State
  3
  2 ### Breaking Changes
  1
216 - removed chromedriver
  1 - signature changes:
  2   - set_action_delays(random_range) -> (random_range_from, random_range_to)
  3   - set_delemit_liking(max, min) ->(max_likes, min_likes)
  4   - set_delemit_commenting(max, min) ->(max_comments, min_comments)
  5   - unfollow_users(customList, instapyfollowed) -> (custom_list_enabled, custom_list    , custom_list_param, instapy_followed_enabled, instapy_followed_param)
  6   - set*quota_supervisor(peak*_) ->(peak\_\_\_hourly, peak_\*\_daily)

[MCilento93]

Firefox portable will work?

[elulcao]

@MCilento93
I don't know if FF portable will work, you also have to check geckodriver functionality with the FF portable.
However, you could try InstaPy Docker,
so your host machine will be using Chrome but the Docker container will
start the InstaPy session with the embebed Firefox.

[MCilento93]

Thank you,
I don't use docker commonly

In the afternoon I see from reference of instapy how to callback a Firefox portable

I will give a try

[MCilento93]

i switched to portable firefox. i get:

selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: binary is not a Firefox executable

i tried installing gecko, maybe not correctly. somebody know how to fix this?

[MCilento93]

[elulcao]

@MCilento93

I'm not a Windows lover, but here we are.
To use a portable app, use the binary inside the App directory,
All portables apps so far I know have the same structure.
I'm quite sure your machine is x64, so cd to FFPortable -> App -> FireFox64 -> firefox
That's it, you found the executable file.

session = InstaPy(
    username="iammariocilento", 
    password="qwerty1993", 
    browser_executable_path="C:\\Users\\internet\\Downloads\\FirefoxPortable\\App\\Firefox64\\firefox.exe",
    geckodriver_path="C:\\Users\\internet\\Downloads\\geckodriver",)

[MCilento93]

@MCilento93

I'm not a Windows lover, but here we are.
To use a portable app, use the binary inside the App directory,
All portables apps so far I know have the same structure.
I'm quite sure your machine is x64, so cd to FFPortable -> App -> FireFox64 -> firefox
That's it, you found the executable file.

session = InstaPy(
  username="iammariocilento", 
  password="qwerty1993", 
  browser_executable_path="C:\\Users\\internet\\Downloads\\FirefoxPortable\\App\\Firefox64\\firefox.exe",
  geckodriver_path="C:\\Users\\internet\\Downloads\\geckodriver",)

YOU ARE A F** GENIUS!!!
It works greatly as you recommended!
Finally it is going, the whole day through selenium and the bot finding nothing.

Thank you for you help!

Small guides for everybody using Conda and don't want to install Firefox:

1. Install Conda
2. install instapy with pip install instapy (create new env. first, recommended, many packages will be installed)
3. download Firefox Portable, install the portable file in your project subfolder, like project/firefox
4. download and extract last geckdriver in the project root (project/geckodriver.exe)
5. copy samewhere the absolute path to geckodriver.exe and firefox.exe (use the one in the nested path of portable installation folder, like FirefoxPortableApp\Firefox64firefox.exe) and use like below:

'''
Setup guide: https://instapy.org/instance-settings
'''
from instapy import InstaPy

username='aa'
password='bb'
session = InstaPy(username=username,
                  password=password,
                  want_check_browser=True,
                  browser_executable_path=r"C:\Users\mario\Documents\Python\01 Works\instabot\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox64\firefox.exe",
                  geckodriver_path=r'C:\Users\mario\Documents\Python\01 Works\instabot\geckodriver.exe').login()

# Like posts based on hashtags
session.like_by_tags(['tsitsipas', 'tennis'], amount=10)

Enjoy

[elulcao]

Closing for now,
Solution and instructions described above.