themistalkles

(Ultimate) goal: scrape user public data to gain insights and produce a profile.

What it does

Instagram automation: (daily cron) log in as my user, switch to 'activity' -> 'following', and collect the text feeds since 1 day ago, and store them in ./src/feeds/, in a structured format

Setup

• appium setup
• Android Studio, virtual device Nexus 5X API 28 x86
• Apk binary mirror: instagram
• pytest

How to use

• given credentials/insta.json containing

{
    "username": "xxx",
    "password": "yyy"
}

• run cd src; ./insta.py to run automated test.

Troubleshooting

• appium takes a long time to connect inspector / run app: check environment variable proxy setting
• activity startup: to figure out appWaitActivity and appWaitPackage, run this the window is active:

adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep -i activity

• Appium device inspector: use capabilities json to inspect instagram
• apk abi mismatch: emulator abi (x86, arm, etc) needs to match apk abi

INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-113