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I Am Using This Code To Scrape Instagram Followers. But It's Giving Typeerror: Object Of Type 'Webelement' Has No Len() Can Someone Tell Me What The Problem Is?

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naazzzz | 21:35 Sun 26th Mar 2023 | Technology
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*Code*
import time, os
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager as CM
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException


USERNAME = os.environ.get('****')
PASSWORD = os.environ.get('****')

TIMEOUT = 15


def scrape():
usr = input('[Required] - Whose followers do you want to scrape: ')

user_input = int(
input('[Required] - How many followers do you want to scrape (60-500 recommended): '))

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
#options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument("--log-level=3")
mobile_emulation = {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.1; en-us; Nexus 5 Build/JOP40D) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.1025.166 Mobile Safari/535.19"}
options.add_experimental_option("mobileEmulation", mobile_emulation)

bot = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CM().install(), options=options)

bot.get('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/')

time.sleep(1)


#check if cookies
try:
element = bot.find_element(By.XPATH,"/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[3]/div[2]/button")
element.click()

except NoSuchElementException:
print("[Info] - Instagram did not require to accept cookies this time.")




print("[Info] - Logging in...")

username = WebDriverWait(
bot, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='username']")))

# target Password
password = WebDriverWait(
bot, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='password']")))

# enter username and password
username.clear()
username.send_keys(username)
password.clear()
password.send_keys(password)

# target the login button and click it
button = WebDriverWait(
bot, 2).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[type='submit']"))).click()

time.sleep(10)

bot.get('https://www.instagram.com/{}/'.format(usr))

time.sleep(3.5)

WebDriverWait(bot, TIMEOUT).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((
By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@href, '/following')]"))).click()

time.sleep(2)

print('[Info] - Scraping...')

users = set()

for _ in range(round(user_input // 20)):

ActionChains(bot).send_keys(Keys.END).perform()

time.sleep(1)

followers = bot.find_elements(By.XPATH,
"//a[contains(@href, '/')]")

# Getting url from href attribute
for i in followers:
if i.get_attribute('href'):
users.add(i.get_attribute('href').split("/")[3])
else:
continue

print('[Info] - Saving...')
print('[DONE] - Your followers are saved in followers.txt file!')

with open('followers.txt', 'a') as file:
file.write('\n'.join(users) + "\n")

if __name__ == '__main__':
scrape()
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