What is Selenium?
Selenium is an open-source tool used for testing (an open-source tool is like a service that can be accessed or downloaded from the Internet without any charges).
Selenium came into existence in 2004 at ThoughtWorks situated in Chicago. Selenium is an open-source system that incorporates a set of tools that are utilized for automating web browsers.
The open-source tools like Selenium are always preferred for ameliorating the performance and testing of the projects.
Selenium is used for automation testing because it can accept the scripts in any programming language and then the execution of the scripts can be done on any operating system like Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.
Thus, Selenium is the optimized tool for convenient testing of the projects.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a science and engineering that focuses on the simulation of human intelligence by machines (especially computer systems).
In simpler words, Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes it feasible (or possible) for the machines to learn and act intelligently like humans.
The intelligence of systems here is concerned with the computer systems that are automated to learn and perform tasks as humans do.
This interdisciplinary science makes the machine learn from the experience that encompasses different approaches required for AI:
- Thinking humanly
- Thinking rationally
- Acting humanly
- Acting rationally
Let us discuss InstaBot
InstaBot is a bot (abbreviated for robot) that is created for managing automated actions on Instagram. An InstaBot is developed when Selenium is integrated with Artificial Intelligence which is a branch of computer science.
InstaBot can be perceived as a third-party app that is installed for understanding the Instagram users, then curating information about their activities, answering queries, and so on.
InstaBot is launched to take your Instagram experience to the new next level. It is good at acquiring knowledge and hence can answer hundreds of queries in no time.
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A bot is considered as a software that is developed to automate the actions that are usually performed by the users (humans). The InstaBot is launched to perform several actions that are required by users on the platform of Instagram like following, liking, commenting, etc. Our InstaBot provides a wide range of functionalities that are as follows:
- Login into user’s account
The bot is coded to login into the account of the user for further actions by utilizing the email id and password of the account.
def login(self):
''' login into user account'''
bot = self.bot
bot.get('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/')
email = bot.find_element_by_name('username')
.send_keys(self.username)
password = bot.find_element_by_name('password')
.send_keys(self.password + Keys.RETURN)
- Search hashtag
The hashtags are searched by the bot that is used for exploring the accounts with similar interests. The hashtags searched usually compel the users to explore the posts that interest them.
def searchHashtag(self,hashtag):
''' search hashtag '''
bot = self.bot
bot.get('https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/' + hashtag)
- Search another user by giving their username
The bot uses the code that simply searches for other users on Instagram with the help of their username to accesses their profile.
def profile(self, user):
'''
go the the profile of any user by
providing there username
'''
bot = self.bot
bot.get('<https://www.instagram.com/{}>'.format(user))
- Like photos of other users (only if the account is open)
The InstaBot serves the advantage of liking the photos of other uses if they have their accounts open for the public.
def likePhotos(self,amount, user):
'''
Like pictures of the user provided,
username and amount of the picture to be liked
'''
bot = self.bot
bot.find_element_by_class_name('v1Nh3').click()
i = 1
while i <= amount:
bot.find_element_by_class_name('fr66n').click()
bot.find_element_by_class_name
('coreSpriteRightPaginationArrow').click()
i += 1
- Extract the number of posts, number of followers, and number of followings, for any user
Another advantageous feature fed by InstaBot encompasses the extraction of the number of posts, followers, and the following, affiliated with the account.
def countPostsFollowingFollowers(self, user):
'''
returns the number of containing
post count by user instagram
'''
bot = self.bot
# suppose the username doesnot exits then
# try and exist will handle the case with non
# existant user return 0.
bot.get('https://www.instagram.com/{}'.format(user))
post = bot.find_element_by_class_name('k9GMp ').text
t1 = re.split("\n", post)
posts = InstagramBot.transformation(re.split(" ", t1[0])[0])
following = InstagramBot.transformation(re.split(" ", t1[2])[0])
followers = InstagramBot.transformation(re.split(" ", t1[1])[0])
return posts, following, followers
- Follow a user
The bot makes it easy to follow a user automatically, just by implementing a code of the program (herein Python).
def follow(self, user):
'''
Follow the user given that this account
is not followed before
'''
bot = self.bot
bot.get('<https://www.instagram.com/{}>'.format(user))
bot.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Follow"]').click()
- Unfollow a user
The users that are redundant can be unfollowed by the InstaBot, by coding an instruction to unfollow a user.
def unfollow(self, user):
'''
Unfollow the user given that we
are following that user
'''
bot = self.bot
bot.get('<https://www.instagram.com/{}>'.format(user))
bot.find_element_by_xpath
('/html/body/div[1]/section/main/div/hea
der/section/div[1]/div[2]/span/span[1]/button').click()
bot.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Unfollow"]').click()
- Send a direct message
The functionality of sending a direct message to the user seems a bit difficult but the InstaBot makes it conveniently possible by executing the code that enables finding the user, and then sending a direct message.
def directMessage(self, user, message = ''):
'''
Send diret message to the user
by inputing there username
'''
assert type(message) == str
bot = self.bot
bot.get('<https://www.instagram.com/direct/new/>')
bot.find_element_by_name("queryBox").send_keys(user)
bot.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/d
iv/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[3]/button').click()
bot.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Next"]').click()
bot.find_elements_by_xpath("*//textarea")[0].send_keys(message)
bot.find_element_by_xpath('//button[text()="Send"]').click()
- Check for the account privacy of the user
Before taking any steps for commuting changes the bot checks for the privacy setting of the user that is to be accessed. The InstaBot applies the chunk of code that checks for the account privacy on the basis of the number of posts in that user’s account.
def accountPrivacy(self, user):
'''
Returns if the account is private
or public. In case when number of post is 0,
it return unknown
'''
posts, following, followers = InstagramBot.countPosts
FollowingFollowers(self, user)
bot = self.bot
if posts == 0:
return user, 'unknown', posts, following, followers
else:
bot.find_element_by_class_name('v1Nh3').click()
return user, 'Open', posts, following, followers
return user, 'Private', posts, following, followers
The above-mentioned functionalities indicate how an InstaBot works. The entire code block can be accessed at this repository.
Its a dream of almost every Instagram user to be a successful Instagrammer in terms of the number of followers, likes, and comments on the post. The more the count of followers, likes, and comments, the more prosperous the user is perceived.
There is always a way to achieve an aim, so, this dream of becoming an influencing and renowned Instagram user can be accomplished. The way to success is through smart InstaBot because it is the most effective tool to intensify the number of potential followers on the account.
We have seen many users on Instagram who have an enormous count for followers which in turn, extricates astonishing revenue for the users.
One such eminent Instagram user is Cristiano Ronaldo, who is a professional football player and he has made it to 237.07 million followers on his Instagram account. He even procures a magnificent amount from the account which is around $23.3 million. Other famous and prestigious Instagram users with a great number of followers are Ariana Grande (198.37 million followers), Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) with around194.22 million followers, and many more.
Even you can achieve an awe-inspiring count for followers with the help of an easy to utilize the tool, which is our “smart InstaBot”.
Our smart InstaBot is a next level InstaBot in comparison to a traditional InsatBot, as our InstaBot has an implementation of AI functionality for booming conversions.
Our smart InstaBot extracts the data before performing the tasks, the extracted data helps the smart InstaBot understand the way of the user, more easily.
Here InstaBot is referred to as “traditional” because traditional Instabot has no capacity to select which user to interact with in order to get maximum follow-ups. They simply follow any user whose username is given.
As the name suggests “smart”, our InstaBot is smart because it has instructions implemented in AI which makes it smarter.
Our smart InstaBot performs a number of steps to fetch potential followers, it is never satisfied with the random followers.
Not only the quality followers, but our smart InstaBot also facilitates the account with higher conversions.
Let us see how our smart InstaBot excavates better outcomes with the help of its unique way of data collection than the conventional InstaBot:
- Logs in to the account. Looks for the hashtags.
- Extracts 300 users per hashtag.
- Checks for the duplicate entries in the UserData table.
- Ignores the duplicate entries.
- Recall back the UserData into dataframe, where the date is today’s date.
- After this, the users that seem to be more reliable are followed.
- AI helps in the precise computation of the probability of the chances that the user will follow back or not.
- The probability of the user (who is currently accessed) to follow back is very high.
- The potential followers have increased and after this, the account step towards obtaining a huge count of potential followers with considerable conversions.
This is how our InstaBot is smart because it chooses the way of execution of automated actions for the convenience of the user with the help of integrated functionalities of Selenium and AI.
Our smart InstaBot is considered as an extremely versatile conversion bot that understands the user before implementing anything and then takes the imperative steps.
Nothing is perfect in the world, so as the smart InstaBot. It is surely an innovative tool used for managing Instagram account effectively.
Like every other invention, even this smart Instabot has associated pitfalls that sometimes causes a problem for the user, utilizing it.
It is said truly that an InstaBot can easily revolutionize customer service and drive the customers to the positive side of you, but on the contrary, InstaBot if not used in the limit, can alienate or distract your account from the interested users or customers.
It is always important to see both the positive and the negative side of everything, so, before using the InstaBot one must be aware of the negative aspects of it.
Let us stroll through some of the pitfalls of the Instabot to avoid them during its execution:
- Overextending the reach
There are some usage limits on Instagram which should not be violated by any account user. The limits say, your account should not surpass 60 follows or unfollows, 60 comments, and 150 likes every hour.
The limits are justified enough because a normal human can’t go over 150 likes on posts in an hour. But InstaBot is a bot that doesn’t have a brain to process such limitations, therefore, sometimes it lands your account in trouble by going beyond the limited ranges and Instagram is notified of suspicious access, thus, you get banned by Instagram.
- Bungle up the news feed
Most of the users like you prefer to scroll through the news feed for some information that is posted within the niche that you follow.
if you use InstaBot then it introduces a big mess for you because the bot is allowed to follow hundreds of other Instagram users in an hour. The increase in the follow count increases the number of posts also from them.
Thus, your news feed will experience a rabble of posts that are not even required for your interest. You will have to then spend your time going through all the posts and find the posts that actually matter to you.
- Posting of inappropriate comments
The bot uses the concept of hashtags, and it posts comments with respect to a specific hashtag without analyzing the content of the post. Eg., the bot is coded to comment “Great”, “Amazing”, some emojis, etc for the hashtags like “#happy”, “#bignews”, etc.
But, sometimes commenting in context to the hashtags gets disastrous because the bot fails to understand the emotion that is portrayed in the posts. As per the several analysis and observations, it commented, smiley emoji on a post with #bignews, and there are many more examples like this.
The authenticity of the attributes discussed throughout the article can be rectified by observing the records, demonstrated below.
The graphical data shown above is stimulating to consider the positive contributions of InstaBot instead of being scared of confronting the pitfalls.
The data clearly records that the heuristic method is not creating an impactful difference but the smart method is benefiting enough to increase at least 10 followers every day and it seems more lucrative from the business’ perspective.
Our smart InstaBot is considered as an extremely versatile conversion bot that understands the user before implementing anything and then takes the imperative steps.
Strolling through the great functionalities and pitfalls of the smart InstaBot, one can get a confusion that, whether to use it or not.
The solution is, every small or big object has an associated flaw with it, that doesn’t reduce its advantageous serving. Undoubtedly, the results can be influenced by its cons but every deficiency can easily be curbed if a respective object or tool is used keeping in mind its limited usage.
If one (here, the user implementing InstaBot) would not greed for more then the smart InstaBot would act smartly to render the expected and effective conversions for the business.
