python - The website starts to refresh after a moment of scraping with Selenium

Question

So I've been learning python for a while but I'm a newbie when it comes to web scraping so sorry if my question is kind of vague. The code below is basically an Instagram follower bot, where you follow the followers of a specific person and it. It actually works quite well, however after about 2 minutes the website refresh which means that it now has to start the whole process again, clicking cancel continuously now that the site has refreshed since it has to follow the people it has already followed. And after that, it refreshes again after 2 minutes so in the end it never can follow everyone. I appreciate every help! My apologies for my bad English!

     from selenium import webdriver
        from selenium.common.exceptions import ElementClickInterceptedException
        from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
        import time
        
        CHROME_DRIVER_PATH = "C:Developmentchromedriver.exe"
        SIMILAR_ACCOUNT = ""
        USERNAME = ""
        PASSWORD = ""
        
        class InstaFollower:
        
            def __init__(self, path):
                self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path)
        
            def login(self):
                self.driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/")
                time.sleep(5)
        
                username = self.driver.find_element_by_name("username")
                password = self.driver.find_element_by_name("password")
        
                username.send_keys(USERNAME)
                password.send_keys(PASSWORD)
        
                time.sleep(2)
                password.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
        
            def find_followers(self):
                time.sleep(5)
                self.driver.get(f"https://www.instagram.com/{SIMILAR_ACCOUNT}")
                time.sleep(2)
                followers = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath(
                    '//*[@id="react-root"]/section/main/div/header/section/ul/li[2]/a')
                followers.click()
            def scroll(self):
                time.sleep(3)
                modal = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div[2]')
                self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollTop = arguments[0].scrollHeight", modal)
        
            def follow(self):
                time.sleep(2)
                buttons = self.driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("li button")
                buttonz = [x.text for x in buttons]
                print(buttonz)
                for button in buttons:
                    time.sleep(1)
                    try:
                        button.click()
                        time.sleep(3)
                    except ElementClickInterceptedException:
                        cancel = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[6]/div/div/div/div[3]/button[2]")
                        cancel.click()

  bot = InstaFollower("C:Developmentchromedriver.exe")
  bot.login()
  bot.find_followers()
  while True:
    bot.follow()
    bot.scroll()
        

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65932866/the-website-starts-to-refresh-after-a-moment-of-scraping-with-selenium

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