Filling in login forms in Instagram using selenium and webdriver (chrome) python OSX

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There is a trick in this, instead of searching for the Button (Log In) there is a better way to log in without it. how? let’s see:

Import the packages you need:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from time import sleep
#Select the driver, In our case we will use Chrome.
chromedriver_path="chromedriver.exe" # Change this to your own chromedriver path!
webdriver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver_path)
sleep(2)
webdriver.get('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?source=auth_switcher')
sleep(3)
username = webdriver.find_element_by_name('username')
username.send_keys('yourUsername')
password = webdriver.find_element_by_name('password')
password.send_keys('yourPassword')
#instead of searching for the Button (Log In) you can simply press enter when you already selected the password or the username input element.
submit = webdriver.find_element_by_tag_name('form')
submit.submit()

You can copy the code and run it directly (even without a real username or password)
To get the webdriver (chromedriver.exe) from ChromeDriver

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