On macOS

$ source venv\Scripts\activate

On PowerShell

$ venv\Scripts\activate

$ py -3 -m venv venv     

pip install Flask
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install -U selenium
pip install webdriver-manager
pip install lxml
pip install python-dotenv

A .env file is needed because you need to be connected on your instagram account to be able to visite other people account. It should be created on the same folder then the file app.py and it should contain ;

INSTA_USERNAME=<your-username>
INSTA_PASSWORD=<your-password>

$ flask run

If you have error messages, try to run those commands first, then retry :

$ export FLASK_APP=app

$ export FLASK_ENV=development

Don't hesitate to read this article if you need help

• Flask
• Beautiful soup 4
• Selenium
• webdriver_manager
• lxml

• The folders static and templates contains all the client-side files.
• The file app.py contains the main script of the application. It is from this file that Flask runs.
• The file commands.py contains the different commands for the Arduino. WIP
• The file results.html contains temporarily the HTML page that the script is scraping.
• The file scraping.py is the script test for scraping a page.