lyjacky11 / check-IG-follows

Check the number of followers/followings of an Instagram account. Also calculates the number of users you're not following and that aren't following you.

Check IG Follows

Check the number of followers and followings on a Instagram account. Also calculates the number of users you are not following and users that are not following you.

Requirements

• The Tampermonkey extension is required to use this script.
• The script must be ran on https://www.instagram.com/{username} URLs.

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Changelog

• Version 2 automatically parses the array data into JSON
• Colourful console logs
• Automatically copies result to clipboard

Usage

1. Create a new userscript in the Tampermonkey extension.

2. Copy & paste the code from the .js file into the code box and save changes.

3. Browse to Instagram and view a user profile.

4. The URL in the address bar should be: https://www.instagram.com/{username}.

5. Open the browser console (Ctrl+Shift+J on Chrome).

6. You should see the script running in the console.

• If it's not running, ensure that the script is turned on in Tampermonkey, refresh the page and try again.

NOTE: The page must be refreshed manually (Ctrl+F5) every time you want to fetch data.

Save Usernames

1. Expand the arrays of the data that you want to keep until you see the usernames in the console.

• In version 2 of the script, you should see JSON data in the console; click Show more under each set of JSON data to view the full list.

2. In the console log box, right click until you see a Save as option, and then save the log to your computer.

3. Clean up the log file by deleting all the lines that do not start with userscript.html.

4. Once all the lines start with userscript.html, start deleting the content until you have only the information you want to keep.

Parse JSON to CSV/Excel

1. Use an online JSON Formatter to format the single line JSONs into a readable format.

2. Save the separate JSON data into individual JSON files.

NOTE: Step 3 applies only to version 1 of the script!

3. Use Notepad++ Find & Replace feature to get the correct JSON syntax:

• Add a , and a new line to each } by finding } and replacing it with },\n using the Extended search mode.
• Add a set of { } braces as the root JSON element at the top and bottom of the file.
• Add a JSON property called users: under the root element and then a set of [ ] braces around the main content.
• Remove the extra text at intervals of 100 users (ex. 100th username, 200th username, etc.).
• Remove the numbers by finding ^\d+[:] and replacing it with a blank string using the Regular expression search mode.
• Optional: Tab the JSON file until it has the correct indentation.

4. Validate the JSON files using the online JSON Formatter.

5. Use an online JSON to CSV Converter and convert the files to CSV or Excel format.

Optional: Merge the separate Excel files into one spreadsheet and format the spreadsheet (sorting, styling, etc.) into a user friendly format.