:robot: Automate your Instagram activity with InstaBot, a customisable bot that likes, follows and comments

nickpettican, updated 🕥 2022-12-08 02:27:13

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InstaBot 1.3.0

InstaBot 1.3.0

Automate your Instagram activity with InstaBot - a customisable bot that likes, follows and comments

InstaBot is a Python-based automated Instagram bot made for Social Media Marketing Campaigns in order to reach the desired audience while saving time and money.

All you need is your username and password and other parameters - no API signup is needed.

Requirements

Python 2.7 and a server (a Raspberry Pi works great). See installation bellow to install libraries.

In a nutshell

InstaBot will

[x] Like posts of users you want to reach
[x] Comment on these posts
[x] Follow users you want to reach
[x] Unfollow users who don't follow you back within x hours
[x] Like posts in your news feed - only those you want to
[x] Build a profile object with all your followers and users you follow

Instabot runs in two modes

From XX:XX to YY:YY
All day (24/7)

The bot works on 24-hour military time, so you should input 09:00 to have it start at 9am.

How to install

Download and install Python on your computer (a Raspberry Pi will have it pre-installed)
Install dependencies running pip install -r requirements.txt.
Install lxml
Git clone this repo or download as a ZIP and extract
Add your input (see bellow)
Run python run.py

Your input

Open the config file and insert your credentials and preferences:

{
    "username": "username",
    "password": "password",
    "timezone": 0,
    "tags": "input/tags.csv",
    "tags_to_avoid": "input/tags_to_avoid.csv",
    "friends": "input/friends.csv",
    "like_news_feed": true,
    "likes_in_day": 500,
    "media_max_likes": 50,
    "media_min_likes": 0,
    "follow_in_day": 50,
    "unfollow": true,
    "follow_time_hours": 6,
    "comments_in_day": 0,
    "comments_list": [["Cool", "Sweet", "Awesome", "Great"],
                  ["😄", "🙌", "👍", "👌", "😊"], 
                  [".", "!", "!!", "!!!"]],
    "bot_start_at": "07:00",
    "bot_stop_at": "23:00"
}

Set likes

Tell Instabot how many posts you want to like per day. The maximum you will get to do before you get banned is 1000, but the default is set at 500 to keep it safe, especially if you're doing a daytime run (7am to 11pm). Instabot will take random time breaks between likes, to make it look more like a real person and not an automated bot.

"likes_in_day": 500

Set Instabot to like your friends posts so you don't have to. Only the friends usernames you included in the friends list will have their posts liked.

"friends": "input/friends.csv"
"like_news_feed": true

You can tell Instabot not to like posts with less than a minimum like number or more than a maximum like number. This property is useful because you will get more feedback from posts with a lower number of likes.

"media_max_likes": 50
"media_min_likes": 0

Give Instabot a list of hashtags to look for posts to like. I recommend you read this article for tips on using hashtags. You can either put the tags into input/tags.csv, as it is currently the case in the default values:

"tags": "input/tags.csv"

Or you can insert the tags straight into the config file like this:

"tags": ['tag1', 'tag2']

You can do the same with your friends list: either leave it as the default and include your friends' usernames in the friends.csv file or insert the usernames straight into the config file.

"friends": "input/friends.csv"

And finally, negative keywords are very important. These will help you avoid liking posts you don't want to like. These can be inserted the same way as the tags. The default is for them to be in a file.

"tags_to_avoid": "input/tags_to_avoid.csv"

Set comments

Instabot will comment randomly on posts that it liked. The comments are generated through a list of lists that gets shuffled to make a comment. You can add extra lists to increase the comment, or just reduce it to a single list of list e.g. [['I just want this comment']].

"comments_in_day": 0
"comments_list": [["Cool", "Sweet", "Awesome", "Great"],
                  ["😄", "🙌", "👍", "👌", "😊"], 
                  [".", "!", "!!", "!!!"]]

Follow and unfollow

Follow users of posts you liked:

"follow_in_day": 50

Set the amount of time you want to follow users:

"follow_time_hours": 6

Set Instabot to unfollow them if they haven't followed you back:

"unfollow": true

Set Instabot to run during the day

To make Instabot's activities look more real, you can set the bot to run between set times such as the default 7am to 11pm. Between those times the bot will either sleep or carry on unfollowing users it followed during the day.

"bot_start_at": "07:00"
"bot_stop_at": "23:00"

Make sure you use military time.

Instabot is smart

Before unfollowing a user, Instabot will check if that user followed you back. If that person followed you back, Instabot won't unfollow them. I mean it's only fair. It will also check if users are potentially fake accounts and will unfollow them. If a user was unfollowed recently but followed you back, he/she will be followed back again.
Internet connection breaks? No problem. InstaBot will wait until your internet connection is back in order to continue.
Need to shut it down quickly but you're still following lots of people? No problem. Instabot will save a list of the users it followed and will unfollow them next time it's turned on.

Motivation

Digital Marketing is becoming more and more complicated, with new platforms coming out and newer and better competitors appearing left right and center. InstaBot was created in order to save the time of having to reach out to the potential audience by liking posts and following those that will be interested in your service. Not everyone on Instagram is actively seeking out interesting profiles on the 'explore' tab, so in order to reach them, a like and a follow might be enough to spark that extra interest for them to visit your profile.

Server

If you haven't got a server I find a Raspberry Pi works just fine. All you need to do is follow the installation guide above and run the bot.

Future of InstaBot

Instabot is written in Python2, meaning it would need to be translated to Python3. Feel free to fork it and do this yourself.

The stats functionality is something I would also like to work on, but feel free to collaborate to make it happen sooner.

Warnings

Instagram does not like spam or bulk liking and following, so:

Keep the likes per day bellow 1000 in a 24 hour period, meaning if you use the bot for 12 hours a day, I would suggest only setting the likes to 500 or you might risk a ban.

Don't bulk unfollow:

You only get 15 unfollows in a short time period, so if you do a bulk unfollowing on your own, you risk InstaBot not being able to unfollow for a couple of hours.

Choose your tags wisely, and monitor the posts you are liking:

In case InstaBot likes unappropriate posts.

Don't rely on InstaBot as your only Social Media Digital Marketeer, Social Media is a two-way conversation, it's a way to gain an audience and talk to them, not a means to sell.

Issues

Bump certifi from 2018.4.16 to 2022.12.7

opened on 2022-12-08 02:27:13 by dependabot[bot]

Bumps certifi from 2018.4.16 to 2022.12.7.

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b8eb5e9 2022.06.15.1
47fb7ab Fix deprecation warning on Python 3.11 (#199)
b0b48e0 fixes #198 -- update link in license
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Bump nbconvert from 5.3.1 to 6.5.1

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Add collapsers to template by @SylvainCorlay in jupyter/nbconvert#1689

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Version 2.0.2

Fix escape_url via lepture/mistune#295

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Fix XSS for image link syntax.

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First release of Mistune v2.

Version 2.0.0 RC1

In this release, we have a Security Fix for harmful links.

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This is the first release of v2. An alpha version for users to have a preview of the new mistune.

Version 0.8.4

Support an escaped pipe char in a table cell. #150

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Version 2.0.4
Released on Jul 15, 2022

Fix url plugin in &lt;a&gt; tag
Fix * formatting

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Released on Jun 27, 2022

Fix table plugin

Security fix for CVE-2022-34749

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Released on Jan 14, 2022
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4.9.1 (2022-07-01)

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A crash was resolved when using iterwalk() (or canonicalize()) after parsing certain incorrect input. Note that iterwalk() can crash on valid input parsed with the same parser after failing to parse the incorrect input.

4.9.0 (2022-06-01)

Bugs fixed

GH#341: The mixin inheritance order in lxml.html was corrected. Patch by xmo-odoo.

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Built with Cython 0.29.30 to adapt to changes in Python 3.11 and 3.12.

Wheels include zlib 1.2.12, libxml2 2.9.14 and libxslt 1.1.35 (libxml2 2.9.12+ and libxslt 1.1.34 on Windows).

GH#343: Windows-AArch64 build support in Visual Studio. Patch by Steve Dower.

4.8.0 (2022-02-17)

Features added

GH#337: Path-like objects are now supported throughout the API instead of just strings. Patch by Henning Janssen.

The ElementMaker now supports QName values as tags, which always override the default namespace of the factory.

Bugs fixed

GH#338: In lxml.objectify, the XSI float annotation "nan" and "inf" were spelled in lower case, whereas XML Schema datatypes define them as "NaN" and "INF" respectively.

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v1.22.0

NumPy 1.22.0 Release Notes

NumPy 1.22.0 is a big release featuring the work of 153 contributors spread over 609 pull requests. There have been many improvements, highlights are:

Annotations of the main namespace are essentially complete. Upstream is a moving target, so there will likely be further improvements, but the major work is done. This is probably the most user visible enhancement in this release.

A preliminary version of the proposed Array-API is provided. This is a step in creating a standard collection of functions that can be used across application such as CuPy and JAX.

NumPy now has a DLPack backend. DLPack provides a common interchange format for array (tensor) data.

New methods for quantile, percentile, and related functions. The new methods provide a complete set of the methods commonly found in the literature.

A new configurable allocator for use by downstream projects.

These are in addition to the ongoing work to provide SIMD support for commonly used functions, improvements to F2PY, and better documentation.

The Python versions supported in this release are 3.8-3.10, Python 3.7 has been dropped. Note that 32 bit wheels are only provided for Python 3.8 and 3.9 on Windows, all other wheels are 64 bits on account of Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions dropping 32 bit support. All 64 bit wheels are also linked with 64 bit integer OpenBLAS, which should fix the occasional problems encountered by folks using truly huge arrays.

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Deprecated numeric style dtype strings have been removed

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Nicolas Pettican

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:robot: Automate your Instagram activity with InstaBot, a customisable bot that likes, follows and comments

This code is no longer maintained. Bots are no longer safe, you could easily get banned.

InstaBot 1.3.0

Requirements

In a nutshell

InstaBot will

Instabot runs in two modes

How to install

Your input

Set likes

Set comments

Follow and unfollow

Set Instabot to run during the day

Instabot is smart

Motivation

Server

Future of InstaBot

Warnings

Issues

Bump certifi from 2018.4.16 to 2022.12.7

Bump nbconvert from 5.3.1 to 6.5.1

Release 6.5.1

6.5.0

What's Changed

New Contributors

6.4.3

What's Changed

New Contributors

6.4.0

What's Changed

New Contributors

Bump mistune from 0.8.3 to 2.0.3

Version 2.0.2

Version 2.0.1

Version 2.0.0

Version 2.0.0 RC1

Version 2.0.0 Alpha 1

Version 0.8.4

Changelog

Bump lxml from 4.2.4 to 4.9.1

4.9.1 (2022-07-01)

Bugs fixed

4.9.0 (2022-06-01)

Bugs fixed

Other changes

4.8.0 (2022-02-17)

Features added

Bugs fixed

Bump numpy from 1.15.0 to 1.22.0

v1.22.0

NumPy 1.22.0 Release Notes

Expired deprecations

Deprecated numeric style dtype strings have been removed

Expired deprecations for loads, ndfromtxt, and mafromtxt in npyio

Bump notebook from 5.6.0 to 6.4.12

Nicolas Pettican

Expired deprecations for `loads`, `ndfromtxt`, and `mafromtxt` in npyio