The easiest way to check who hasn't followed you back on Instagram is to do it manually, keeping track of the exact number of followers. If you notice your followers count goes down, you can investigate the "Following" lists of those specific users to verify whether or not they're still following you.
This is obviously very time-consuming and impractical work — especially when you have a lot of followers who fluctuate regularly. From now you can use this script to check who hasn't followed you back!
- Sign in to your Instagram account on your browser.
- Open browser's console / devtools by pressing F12 on your keyboard.
- Copy this script by clicking the clipboard icon on the right:
const sleep = milliseconds => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, milliseconds)); async function handleOutput(type, data) { const styles = ` padding: 0.5rem 0; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 700; `; const getMinutes = () => { const steps = Math.floor((data.followingCount - data.currentPageCount) / data.estimatedStepValue); const seconds = steps * 3 + Math.floor(steps / 5 * 15); const minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60); if (minutes <= 1) return "1 minute"; else return `${minutes} minutes`; }; if (type === "PROGRESS") { console.clear(); console.warn(`%cProgress ${data.currentPageCount}/${data.followingCount} (${parseInt(data.currentPageCount / data.followingCount * 100)}%) - ETA: ${getMinutes()}`, styles); } else if (type === "RATE_LIMIT") { console.clear(); console.warn("%cRATE LIMIT: Waiting 15 seconds before requesting again...", styles); await sleep(15000); } else if (type === "FINISH") { console.clear(); if (data.unfollowers.length === 0) return console.warn(`%cPROCESS FINISHED - Everyone followed you back! 😄`, styles); console.group(`%cPROCESS FINISHED - ${data.unfollowers.length} ${data.unfollowers.length === 1 ? "user" : "users"} didn't follow you back. 🤬`, styles); data.unfollowers.forEach(unfollower => console.log(`${unfollower.username}${unfollower.isVerified ? " ☑️" : ""} - https://www.instagram.com/${unfollower.username}/`)); console.groupEnd(); } }; class Script { constructor(checkVerifiedUsers) { this.checkVerifiedUsers = checkVerifiedUsers; this.unfollowers = []; this.canQuery = false; this.nextPageHash = ""; this.requestsCount = 0; this.followingCount = 0; this.currentPageCount = 0; this.estimatedStepValue = 0; } getCookie(cookieName) { return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { const cookies = document.cookie.split(";"); for (const cookie of cookies) { const pair = cookie.split("="); if (pair[0].trim() === cookieName) resolve(decodeURIComponent(pair[1])); } reject("Cookie not found!"); }); } createURLParamsString(params) { return Object.keys(params).map(key => { const value = params[key]; if (typeof value === "object") return `${key}=${JSON.stringify(value)}`; else return `${key}=${value}`; }).join("&"); } async generateURL() { const params = { query_hash: "3dec7e2c57367ef3da3d987d89f9dbc8", variables: { id: await this.getCookie("ds_user_id"), first: "1000" } }; if (this.nextPageHash) params.variables.after = this.nextPageHash; return `https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?${this.createURLParamsString(params)}`; } async startScript() { try { do { if (this.requestsCount !== 0 && this.requestsCount % 5 === 0) await handleOutput("RATE_LIMIT"); const url = await this.generateURL(); const { data } = await fetch(url).then(res => res.json()); if (checkVerifiedUsers) { data.user.edge_follow.edges.forEach(edge => { if (!edge.node.follows_viewer) this.unfollowers.push({ username: edge.node.username, isVerified: edge.node.is_verified }); }); } else { data.user.edge_follow.edges.forEach(edge => { if (!edge.node.is_verified && !edge.node.follows_viewer) this.unfollowers.push({ username: edge.node.username }); }); } this.canQuery = data.user.edge_follow.page_info.has_next_page; this.nextPageHash = data.user.edge_follow.page_info.end_cursor; this.requestsCount++; this.followingCount = data.user.edge_follow.count; this.currentPageCount += data.user.edge_follow.edges.length; if (this.estimatedStepValue === 0) this.estimatedStepValue = data.user.edge_follow.edges.length; handleOutput("PROGRESS", { currentPageCount: this.currentPageCount, estimatedStepValue: this.estimatedStepValue, followingCount: this.followingCount }); await sleep(3000); } while (this.canQuery); handleOutput("FINISH", { unfollowers: this.unfollowers }); } catch (error) { return console.error(`Something went wrong!\n${error}`); } } }; const checkVerifiedUsers = confirm("Do you want to check the verified users as well?"); const script = new Script(checkVerifiedUsers); script.startScript();- Paste the script on to the console and wait for the process to finish. (it may take some time, depending on how many users you're following)
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