instauto is an Instagram automation/bot library written in modern, clean javascript using Google's Puppeteer. Goal is to be very easy to set up, use, and extend, and obey instagram's limits. Heavily inspired by InstaPy, but I thought it was way too heavy and hard to setup.
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First install Node.js 8 or newer.
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Create a new directory with a file like example.js
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Adjust your
example.jsto your needs. If you want to see how it would work without doing any actual actions, use thedryRun: trueoption. -
Open a terminal in the directory
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Run
npm install puppeteer instauto -
Run
node example
You can run this code for example once every day using cron or pm2 or similar
See index.js for available options.
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Follow the followers of some particular users. (e.g. celebrities.) Parameters like max/min ratio for followers/following can be set.
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Unfollow users that don't follow us back. Will not unfollow any users that we recently followed.
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Unfollow auto followed users (also those following us back) after a certain number of days.
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The code automatically prevents breaching 100 follow/unfollows per hour or 700 per 24hr, to prevent bans. This can be configured.
See example.js for example of features
- Run this on a machine with a non-cloud IP to avoid being banned