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📝 quickly crawl the information (e.g. followers, tags etc...) of an instagram profile.
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Unable to locate element: class name "_mesn5" #32

Closed stefanbschneider closed 6 years ago

stefanbschneider commented 6 years ago

Trying to scrape a public Instagram profile, I got this error:


Extracting information from ???
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "crawl_profile.py", line 28, in <module>
    information = extract_information(browser, username)
  File "C:\Users\Stefan\git-repos\instagram-profilecrawl\util\extractor.py", lin                                                                                                                e 89, in extract_information
    = get_user_info(browser)
  File "C:\Users\Stefan\git-repos\instagram-profilecrawl\util\extractor.py", lin                                                                                                                e 11, in get_user_info
    container = browser.find_element_by_class_name('_mesn5')
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\we                                                                                                                bdriver.py", line 485, in find_element_by_class_name
    return self.find_element(by=By.CLASS_NAME, value=name)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\we                                                                                                                bdriver.py", line 855, in find_element
    'value': value})['value']
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\we                                                                                                                bdriver.py", line 308, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\er                                                                                                                rorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Una                                                                                                                ble to locate element: {"method":"class name","selector":"_mesn5"}
  (Session info: headless chrome=63.0.3239.132)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.35.528161 (5b82f2d2aae0ca24b877009200ced9065a772e                                                                                                                73),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64)

Am I missing something? Why is it using headless chrome? I actually appreciate headless, but I read in another issue that it's apparently not yet supported? Or is this an issue with Python 3.6?

stefanbschneider commented 6 years ago

Sorry, it was really just an issue with Python 3.6. Works with 3.5 now. Even though, I still get an error Error while finding module specification for 'crawl_profile.py' (AttributeError: module 'crawl_profile' has no attribute '__path__') - but it still works.