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Dallon Penney edited this page May 25, 2020 · 6 revisions

Welcome to the InstaDog wiki! This was a fun little weekend project in Selenium Automation. Please feel free to clone or fork this project and make it more robust.

Requirements

Required Software

Python 3.5 or higher

Chrome version 72 or higher

Chromedriver (same version as Chrome)

Required Packages

Imagesize

JSON

URLLIB

Usage

Simply clone the repository, compile the AutoIt3 script, edit the instadog.py script, and run!

Packages and AutoIt3

  • Install all required packages
  1. Selenium
  2. Imagesize
  3. JSON
  4. URLLIB
  • Edit the chromefileupload.au3 file paths using SciTE4AutoIt3
  • Compile the chromefileupload.au3 script using SciTE4AutoIt3's Compile tool, making note of where the executable is saved.

Edit the python script

  • Edit all paths so that they match with the locations of the AutoIt3 executable and dogquotes.txt on user's machine.
  • Edit the instagram user login info so that the script can login to the user's instagram account.
  • Run the instadogpostbot.py script using Python >= 3.5