How to send emoji in the comments on windows?

[EightShift]

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How to send emoji in the comments on windows? I want to use the ultimate schedule. When I worked on Linux, everything was fine. But now I would like to transfer everything to Windows. I suffered for a long time with encodings and I still didn’t work ...

All I got was an error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x98 in position 2: character maps to

Or instead of comments, there was something like this: РєРЅРє яю;C; лул лул

I'm already tortured ... nothing happens. If this is not possible, then you will have to return to Linux.

[ohld]

are you using python 3?

[EightShift]

@ohld Yes.

[arlidge]

I am not on Windows, I use macOS Mojave ...I just copied the Emoji from https://getemoji.com/ and pasted it straight into the ultimate schedule comments I wanted the bot to comment with. Have you tried this?

[EightShift]

@ohld @arlidge, No. I have not tried. But I have no doubt that it will work, as well as on Linux. I'm just wondering if this is possible on windows. The fact is that when I send Emoji via Instabot to Direct (on Windows), Emoji looks fine. But when i comment, they looks like strange signs. To send in direct, made this:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from glob import glob
import os
import sys
import threading
import time
import datetime

from tqdm import tqdm

sys.path.append(os.path.join(sys.path[0], '../'))
import schedule
from instabot import Bot, utils

username = "super_mega_username"
password = "super_mega_password"
USERSLIST = "USERSLIST.txt"
MESSAGE = open("MESSAGE.txt", "r", encoding="utf8").read()
SENDED_USERSLIST = "SENDED_USERSLIST.txt"

bot = Bot()
bot.login(username=username, password=password)

wait = 1500 #Delay

for user in utils.file(USERSLIST).list:
    if user not in utils.file(SENDED_USERSLIST).list:
        try:
            current_time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S')
            if bot.send_message(MESSAGE, user):
                print (current_time, " >>> Sent a message to user: " + user)
                open(SENDED_USERSLIST, "a").write(user + "\n")
                open("MESSAGE.txt", "r", encoding="utf8").close()
                time.sleep(wait)
            else:
                print (current_time, " >>> Can't send message to user: " + user)
        except:
            pass

[arlidge]

@EightShift - I think because you are encoding with utf8. I think emojis have two utf8 encodings... I have not seen that in any of the scripts that comment. In the .txt file for my comments I just paste the emoji directly and it works, all in python3.

[EightShift]

@arlidge i know. my script for sending emojies in direct - works correctly. But, when i try to send a comment with emojies using ultimate method, i dont get wanted result. Maybe instabot have another method to send comments?

When i using linux, i using emojies in txt like you. And i want to get this on windows, but cant :(

@ohld

[arlidge]

Im not too sure then mate, I thought it would be the same because it's python. Keep hunting, hopefully someone can help you soon. Sorry I am of no help.

[EightShift]

@ohld, @arlidge I GOT IT! in utils.py i added encoding="utf8":

    @property
    def list(self):
        with open(self.fname, 'r', encoding="utf8") as f:
            lines = [x.strip('\n') for x in f.readlines()]
            return [x for x in lines if x]

and emojis looks fine!!! but i have an error in console, and i added .encode("utf-8") in bot_comment.py:

def comment_medias(self, medias):
    broken_items = []
    self.logger.info("Going to comment %d medias." % (len(medias)))
    for media in tqdm(medias):
        if not self.is_commented(media):
            text = self.get_comment()
            self.logger.info("Commented with text: %s" % text.encode("utf-8"))
            if not self.comment(media, text):
                self.delay('comment')
                broken_items = medias[medias.index(media):]
                break
    self.logger.info("DONE: Total commented on %d medias. " %
                     self.total['comments'])
    return broken_items

...and goodbye error :)

[arlidge]

Woohoo :) stoked you got it figured out! Now onto automation. 💯

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