Check if selenium instagram post is a video
I have a bot that loops over all user posts and get the number of likes and it’s link. The problem is that the code breaks when it encounters a video.
def usermostlikedposts(self, username, nofposts): self.nav_user(username) for i in range(nofposts): try: post = self.browser.find_element_by_xpath('(//div[@class=\'eLAPa\']//parent::a)[{}]'.format(i+1)) post.click() WebDriverWait(self.browser, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH , '/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/article/div[3]/section[2]/div/div/button/span'))) likes = self.browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/article/div[3]/section[2]/div/div/button/span').get_attribute("innerHTML") link = post.get_attribute("href") self.likesposts[likes] = link x = self.browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div[3]/button') x.click() except: pass .
I don’t know how to make this work on videos, i want to make the bot get the number of views instead of likes whenever it encounters a video, but i fail to implement this. I’m looking for a way to check if the post is a video, and write the code according to that condition
I managed to solve it:
def usermostlikedposts(self, username, nofposts): self.nav_user(username) for i in range(nofposts): try: post = self.browser.find_element_by_xpath('(//div[@class=\'eLAPa\']//parent::a)[{}]'.format(i+1)) post.click() WebDriverWait(self.browser, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH , '/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/article/div[3]/section[1]/span[3]/button'))) try: likes = self.browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div/article/div[3]/section[2]/div/div/button/span').get_attribute("innerHTML") link = post.get_attribute("href") self.likesposts[likes] = link except: pass x = self.browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div[3]/button') x.click() except: pass 
