Hey!
If you are searching for a good automation tool for Instagram take a look at InstaPy.
This tool is inspired by InstaPy, but is not a fork of InstaPy.
The easiest way to start the bot after downloading requierments is to
Replace "username" and "password" with your credentials in Bot("username", "password") as bot: in example_script.py
And just run the script :)
pip install selenium
pip install webdriver-manager
pip install fake-useragent
In example_script.py we use class Bot("username", "password") as bot:
Here you can additionally declare variables
1.mute_audio = TrueBy default audio is off.
Let's say you want to use bot.watch_stories function and want audio, declare bot like this
Bot("username", "password", mute_audio=False).
2.headless = FalseBy default headless mode is off.
If you want the webdriver to work headless just init bot like this:
Bot("username", "password", headless=True).
3.fake_agent=FalseBy default fake agent is off
If you want the chromedriver to run on a random fake agent just declare it like
Bot("username", "password", fake_agent=True).
For example, I want to setup bot with fake agent on headless mode:
Bot("username", "password", fake_agent=True, headless=True).
Now that you have initliazed Bot class let's see what it can do.
In example_script.py on line 8 we have our first action function
bot.like_by_feed(amount=10)
This will scrool on your home feed and like posts for the choosen amount.
In this case when liking on our feed it will not interact with profiles whos pictures it liked, because on line 7 we setup bot bot.setup_interact(interact=False).
If we decalred instead bot.setup_interact(interact=True, interact_percentage=50, interact_amount_like=4) above like_by_feed on Line 8
Then because interact_percentage=50 bot would visit 5 profiles and like 4 posts on each profile, because interact_amount_like=4
In example_script.py we used bot.setup_follow(do_follow=True, follow_criteria=1.05, follow_people=15)
This means that when interacting with profile it will check if following / followers >= follow_crit:
Let's say bot is on a profile that has 1000 followers and is following 1005 people. Then the criteria will be 1.05 and we will follow that profile.
follow_people=15 means that bot will repeat looking for profiles until it follows 15 people. But how? Which profiles? Well firstly both setup_interact(interact=True) and setup_follow(do_follow=True) need to be set and then you have only 1 action (like_by_hashtags) avaliable from where bot will collect profile links and visit(interact) with them and follow if met with critiera.
In example_script.py we used bot.like_by_hashtag(hashtag=["computerscience", "python"], amount=50)
This means it will like 50 posts on each hashtag. Because we set interact_percentage= 50% and interact = True it will save 25 profile links and visit them. Because we set follow = True and follow_people=15 it will try to follow 8 new people out of 25 visited. Why try to? Because of follow_criteria=1.05 it's not guaranteed that out of 25 profiles 8 of them will match our criteria. Because of that bot will repeat the process of liking 50 posts on hashtag until it will follow 8 people in total for that hashtag. Then it will move to the next hashtag and repeat the process. Like 50 posts, visit 50%. Now it will try to follow 7 new people in total, because we set follow_people=15 and we have 2 hashtags.
In example_script.py we used bot.view_stories(for_minutes_long=2, seconds_between_stories=3)
This one is self explanitory. In this case bot will watch stories for 2 minutes and click on next story every 3 seconds. because of line 9 and 10 bot has is setup to follow and interact. because stories (same with feed) are from your followers it will only interact(liking posts) with some profiles and won't try to follow.