first prototype

selenium_instances.py

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+# import libraries
+from selenium import webdriver
+from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
+import os
+import time
+import datetime
+
+today = datetime.date.today()
+
+# get the url from the terminal
+url = input("Enter instance.social url (include https:// etc.): ")
+
+# Tell Selenium to open a new Firefox session
+# and specify the path to the driver
+driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + '/geckodriver')
+
+# Implicit wait tells Selenium how long it should wait before it throws an exception
+driver.implicitly_wait(10)
+driver.get(url)
+time.sleep(3)
+
+d = 1
+
+while True:
+
+    driver.find_element_by_css_selector('a.list-group-item:nth-child(%d)'%d).click()
+    instance_url = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//h5')
+    description = driver.find_element_by_id('modalInstanceInfo-description')
+    print ('Instance:')
+    print(instance_url.text)
+    print ('Description:')
+    print(description.text)
+    time.sleep(0.5)
+
+    # closes pop up
+    driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.btn.btn-secondary').click()
+    time.sleep(0.5)
+
+    # scroll to just under the video in order to load the comments
+    driver.execute_script('window.scrollTo(1, 40);')
+    time.sleep(0.5)
+
+    d+=1
+
+# close the browser
+driver.close()