LinkedIn Custom Message Automation with Selenium

[@turinglegion]

I'm a Brazilian fan :); I really admire your way of teaching .... I watch your videos to learn English

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much Matheus! 😁 I'm really glad you're finding my English clear! I'm always worried it's slightly distorted because of my accent 😊

[@MagnoEfren]

Excellent, thanks for sharing.

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much Magno! enjoy! 😀

[@davidstewart4228]

Another excellent video. I like the way you explain the techniques so that they can be applied elsewhere.

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much David! It's important to work closely with the developer tools, as almost every website has regular updates that may affect the structure of the DOM! And also I find that many Cyber Security professionals are adding me on Linkedin, so I believe they're watching what we do and actively thinking of ways to prevent us from doing it! 😅 hahahaha But that's OK, we'll always find a way to bypass them with Python!!! 😉

[@joseluisbeltramone599]

Excellent tutorials, Mariya. Your are so clear at explaining and also very comprehensive with the concepts. You never forget the details :-). большое спасибо for your hard work!

[@LuisSolis]

Great, I can't wait for the next part. Thank you so much.

[@PythonSimplified]

Yeeeey! Thank you so much Luis! I'll be filming it shortly 😀

[@baconsledge]

Thanks for your hard work, Mariya. It is sinking in.

[@samjebaraj24]

Do you have any idea how much I like your videos ? Thank you for creating ! One request: Can you please create tutorial of scrapping links of all the videos in playlist in youtube !!!

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much Sam! 😁 You can just open your developer tools in the webpage of the playlist you're looking to scrape, Extract all the anchor elements with: anchors = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("a") Then in the next line, use list comprehension to only keep the anchor elements where id="thumbnail" and you're done! Apply the same principles as in this video and part 1 of this video, work closely with the developer tools and you can definitely do this on your own! 😉

[@alisiraydemir]

I just used the page iteration technique in my job scraping project... Thank you!

[@pawelwalenda]

Hi, I've been using the Tabnine extension for about half a year. Initially, the free version operated locally (opposite to the paid version that worked in the cloud) Therefore it consumed more than 1 GB of RAM. Fortunately, the free version operates in the cloud, now.

[@PythonSimplified]

1GB?? Holly smokes man!! 😵 Sure glad they're on the cloud now! I've discovered Tabnine only a few months back, so I never had the pleasure of using their local version... I do know that you can manually choose it over the cloud version for privacy concerns... but I'm a much bigger fan of the cloud, even if I have more than enough RAM to store it locally 😀

[@pawelwalenda]

@@PythonSimplified ​ Yesterday, I paid for a Pro license to take full advantage of Tabnine. I believe it worth it. By the way, you are doing a great job with Python teaching. 🚀

[@justoneofthepeople7585]

wow so great. please don't stop. your way in giving instructions is awesome

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much my friend! 😁 My goal is to convert all the programmers in the world to Python, so no stopping anytime soon! 🤪

[@justoneofthepeople7585]

@@PythonSimplified I like your personality. have a great day. I will keep watching you. if you could please. could you make a video about pyqt5 designer?

[@RajBreno]

Should we expect a tutorial about data scraping from youtube and instagram?

[@PythonSimplified]

Hi Raj, I have a few Instagram tutorials already! 😁 Have you seen the thumbnail scraping tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3uqp4x4fZ6gmbs Or my commenting bot live webinar: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp-omImQqL-amdE KZbin is using very similar principles, just follow the developer tools and you'll figure it out! 😉

[@infinition5417]

Thanks for your great Video ! Looking forward to the next one ;)

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much Infinition! It was a pleasure chatting with you earlier! 😀 Next video is about GUI (connecting a database of Trivia questions to a PyQt5 app)

[@infinition5417]

@@PythonSimplified Cool, you're the one that made me left Tkinter for this new Gui ;) no regrets lol

[@upyoas]

Very cool stuff, you convinced to learn python lol

[@ozzzyyyyy]

Hi! You saved my life thank you very much.

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you Ozgun, I hope you keep safe from those malicious Premium/InMail charges 😁😁😁

[@galanu]

Great video. Looking forward to part 3. :)

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much! I'll have one more GUI video in between and then I'll upload the sequel 😀

[@bytesolution3515]

I see your videos. Its really helpfully.vcan you share this code

[@CodePhiles]

awesome like usual ❤️

[@Yachid]

anOther great video, Thx!

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! 😀

[@ZurioSi]

An amazing video like always Mariya! Thank you so much and it was a pleasure to chat with you, до свидания.

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much Dark Wolf! 😀😀 This video was shorter than usual, speeding through the comments is becoming harder and harder, might need to switch to live streaming soon! 😵

[@ragerose9206]

Use webdriver manager instead. That way you' ll be able to turn your script into app.exe with pyinstaller module and run it on any pc with any browser.

[@Tobs_]

can you show how to make a bot that makes cups of tea and washes laundry please? Thanks 👍

[@PythonSimplified]

Hahahahahaha yes Tobs!! where I come from, this bot is called "wife"! 🤣🤣🤣

[@infinition5417]

@@PythonSimplified What about sharing tasks lol, i hope your are not dedicated to this lol

[@PythonSimplified]

@@infinition5417 hahaha I'm only sharing the tasks that I don't want to do! My spouse is in charge of all the car stuff, fixing electronics, cleaning appliances, taking out the garbage and checking "what is that scary noise coming out of the basement??" 🤣🤣🤣 I'll take cooking, laundry and tea making over any of those!!! hahaha

[@infinition5417]

@@PythonSimplified Lol I 'm reassured ! So, now you'll have to find out how to automate those things with Python🤣 :)

[@hermano511]

Hello! , Thank you, I love you

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you so much Hermano! 😁

[@hermano511]

@@PythonSimplified when are you coming to Brazil?

[@abdurrahmankhan1107]

♥ ♥ 😍

[@baldeepsingh7886]

Hi, thank u so much for making a great tutorial. I made a Facebook group poster using python and it was working fine. But suddenly it stopped working and i m unable to solve because of xpath problem now. Can u help me to solve the problem? How can I contact you?

[@PythonSimplified]

Hi Baldeep! 😃 When things stop working on Facebook - it usually means that they found out about your bot and they're not too happy it exists... which is great!!! Because nobody likes Facebook anymore and I really enjoy to see them struggle!! Hahaha 🤣🤣 I'm very proud of you! I find that the ⭐ best solution ⭐ is to generalize your code! Meaning - instead of targeting elements by xpath with very specific instructions, do the following- target all the tags of the particular element you want to select with: drive.find_elements_by_tag_name() and then narrow down this long list of elements to only include the ones you need. I have a great example for this in part 1 of my LinkedIn Scraper, please refer to the button elements with the text of "message": kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpWphqN8iqmnbpo If you're still struggling with the code, please open an issue on my Webscraping Facebook repository on Github: github.com/MariyaSha/WebscrapingFacebook You can post your code/screenshots/questions there and many lovely people will have the option to help, including myself 😃 Good luck! And let me know if it worked! 😁

[@siddharthasaxena5609]

is there any outside chance that linkedin blocks the account used for automation ?

[@z2.060]

Can you make a video of how to login to gmail account or youtube account using requests module python please ? or a better module than requests ?

[@PythonSimplified]

Have you tried using the same principles as logging in to Linkedin/Facebook/Instagram? If you use Selenium and follow my instructions regarding developer tools - you can log in almost anywhere: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpWphqN8iqmnbpo You'll just need to adjust some of the names and values of attributes to match Googles/KZbin's DOM and you're good 😀

[@z2.060]

@@PythonSimplified i tried but it doesnt work, Google detects it when i try to login, they are so smart. Is it possible to do it with requests python ?

[@z2.060]

@@PythonSimplified i tried but it doesnt work, Google detects it when i try to login, they are so smart. Is it possible to do it with requests python ?

[@HOTZSiXU]

Hi, is this full code available? I’d like to use it if that’s ok

[@umairzaka3932]

I'm from Pakistan I request you as a your student Please make video on web scraping of 3 to 4 hour Complete course video

[@PythonSimplified]

Hi Umair, Ramadan Mubarak! 😀 Actually if you watch my entire "Web Scraping Simplified" playlist, it should cover 3 hours of your time anyway hahaha 🤓: kzbin.info/aero/PLqXS1b2lRpYSkvxnk3quzKL08oRJiP9LA I'm trying to stay away from long videos, it takes lots of work to edit them and a long time passes before I can post them... I prefer to focus on shorter tasks for now, but maybe in the future I'll do something of that sort 😉

[@Yachid]

@@PythonSimplified I only watch shorter flyx

[@riteshweb4549]

amazing

[@mianali5664]

Waiting

[@PythonSimplified]

Hi Mian, great to see you! 😁

[@mayurakanade]

Hi Mariya - Tried this bot today, but getting error "elementnotinteractableexception" at line paragraphs[-5].send_keys("This is test message, please ignore"). Can you please guide me to resolve this? Thank you in advance.

[@RajBreno]

Is it possible to scrap public emails from instagram/youtube accounts. If yes, should we wait for a tutorial?

[@khalil-wc4bs]

next : how to make a sandwich with pykitchen module.

[@PythonSimplified]

Sorry Khalil, only women can make good sandwiches 🤣🤣

[@hamaaritech8714]

hey 😍

[@PythonSimplified]

Heyyy 😁

[@hamaaritech8714]

@@PythonSimplified 😘😮😂

[@atulwadhwa192]

How you did the indentation for all lines at once 🙄🙄

[@PythonSimplified]

Hi Atul! 😊 Select all the lines, press on TAB and you got it!

[@rafac13]

where is Part 3?

[@randomaccount1222]

I'm waiting for pyQt5 part 2

[@PythonSimplified]

You won't need to wait much longer! 😉 I'm editing this video as we speak! Will be released on the weekend or beginning of next week 😁

[@RajBreno]

Where is the source code?

[@PythonSimplified]

Source code will published on my Github as soon as part 3 of this project is uploaded! For now, please refer to the code of my Facebook/Instagram scraper and adjust it accordingly if you don't want to code-along 😊

[@aminghafoori6496]

i know it's good

[@PythonSimplified]

Thank you Amin, I sure hope so! 😀

[@ArnavMondal14]

Amazing video, can't wait for the final part. Can you also add one for Instagram? I had once done one using instagramAPI but selenium looks very promising.

[@PythonSimplified]

Hi Arnab! 😀 I already have a few Instagram Scrapers! Checkout this video, where I show you how to extract Instagram thumbnails: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3uqp4x4fZ6gmbs And also this live webinar, where I show how to make an Instagram commenting bot: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp-omImQqL-amdE Selenium is definitely the best when it comes to social media scraping! 😉

[@ArnavMondal14]

@@PythonSimplified Great ones, will try to build in these. Thanks a lot 😁

[@TheTirailleur]

I don't like tabine. It do weird things. Maybe just me that doesn't know how to use it.

[@siamahmed8287]

I have a request for you to make video for scraping data of a trading website. Please comment me back.. 🙃🙃

[@firetel392]

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[@vijayakumarp1934]

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[@vijayakumarp1934]

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[@tinolbhoyar4646]

I dm in you on insta can you reply me over there?

[@PythonSimplified]

Hi Tinol 😀 I unfortunately don't reply to direct messages, please contact me via public comments instead! It's simply impossible to speak with 25,000 people in private chats, I'll never have time to film new videos if I do that... 😵

[@tinolbhoyar4646]

@@PythonSimplified a web crawler which tells us who visits in our profile 😀

[@wtfdoiputhere]

Im only watching for the setup sorry not sorry