Switch browser to Google Chrome from Chromium

instagram_locations/instagram_locations.py

@@ -7,14 +7,10 @@ from datetime import datetime, timezone
 from itertools import product
 from statistics import pstdev
 from string import Template
-from selenium import webdriver
-from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromiumService
-from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
-from webdriver_manager.core.utils import ChromeType
 from time import sleep
 
 import requests
-
+import pathlib 
 
 # gets instagram "locations" around a particular lat/lng using internal API
 #   (requires session cookie for authentication)
@@ -119,14 +115,19 @@ def encode_date(date_str: str):
 
 
 def get_insta_cookies():
+    from selenium import webdriver
+    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromiumService
+    from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
+    from webdriver_manager.core.os_manager import ChromeType
     """
     Attempts to run selenium, provide user with the login form and extract cookies from page to be used in program.
     Returns cookies formatted as name=value;name=value;...
      """
+    path = str(pathlib.Path.home() / ".instagram_location_searcher" / "data")
     options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
-    options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=~/.instagram_location_searcher/data")
-    options.add_argument(r'--profile-directory=~/.instagram_location_searcher/profile')
-    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, service=ChromiumService(ChromeDriverManager(chrome_type=ChromeType.CHROMIUM).install()))
+    options.add_argument(f"user-data-dir={path}")
+    options.add_argument(f"profile-directory=profile")
+    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, service=ChromiumService(ChromeDriverManager(chrome_type=ChromeType.GOOGLE).install()))
     driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")
     # Check that there is cookie with name sessionid (mean we logged in)
     cookies = driver.get_cookies()
@@ -261,4 +262,4 @@ def main():
             
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
+    main()

instagram_locations/version.py

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
 _MAJOR = "1"
-_MINOR = "2"
+_MINOR = "3"
 # On main and in a nightly release the patch should be one ahead of the last
 # released build.
-_PATCH = "0"
+_PATCH = "1"
 # This is mainly for nightly builds which have the suffix ".dev$DATE". See
 # https://semver.org/#is-v123-a-semantic-version for the semantics.
 _SUFFIX = ""

setup.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     url="https://www.bellingcat.com",
     license="MIT License",
-    install_requires=["requests", "instagram-scraper"],
+    install_requires=["requests", "numpy", "pandas", "selenium", "webdriver-manager"],
     classifiers=[
         'Intended Audience :: Information Technology',
         'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',