How can i get the length of entire list of followers instagram with selenium

Question

Hellow! I want to iterate over entire list of followers on instagram but it gets me just the first 13 elements! Why this happend?

abc = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[@class="_7UhW9   xLCgt        qyrsm            uL8Hv        T0kll "]')
for i in abc:
     if i.text == 'Follow':
        driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", i)

Any ideea how to click on all ements from the followrs pop up?

Answer 1

I'm going to assume that you're looking at a list of followers on Instagram.

So here is a random page on IG:

They have 218,000 followers but when I click to see, I only see 24 followers:

More elements load in when scrolling down: You can see this answer for how to scroll within a specific element

If you would want to get all the followers, I would recommend looping your scrollToBottom() method until the last element stops changing. I don't know how well this will work for 218,000 elements though.

To select the scrolling area, you'll need to find a CSS selector or XPath that matches with this element. Since all the classes here look like they are autogenerated they keep changing, so I found that this selector gets the scrolling area everytime: div[aria-label="Followers"] >div >div >div:nth-child(2) (I try to just use CSS selectors when working with Selenium, but you can use XPath if you want)

In Selenium, to access the element you can use

element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div[aria-label="Followers"] >div >div >div:nth-child(2)')

After loading in however many elements you want, you just gotta use the find_elements_by_css_selector() method to get the followers.

I've found this one works consistently:

div[aria-label="Followers"] >div >div >div:nth-child(2) > ul li

If you're just trying to mass follow all these people, I would advise against it, you might get flagged if you don't add some delay between clicks. But simply you could do this:

followButtons = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('div[aria-label="Followers"] >div >div >div:nth-child(2) > ul li button')
for butt in followButtons:
    butt.click()

If anything happens though, I wasn't involved