Instagram Helper

Simple GUI app that automates some tasks with your Instagram account.

Features

• Auto Follow - lets you follow up to 60 users that have recently uploaded a photo to hashtag you have chosen (it can also like their pictures during the following).
• Auto Unfollow - lets you unfollow users from the previous run (after using Auto Follow) or accounts that you follow but they don't follow you back.
• Auto Like - lets you like photos on a provided hashtag.
• Followers analytics - shows which users were most active on your account (counts every like from a user and display 20 most active).
• Likes on photos - shows a graph with all your likes from photos so you can visualize your progress over time.
• Account followers statistics - shows a graph with your followers and accounts you follow over time.
• Keep following list - a list that you fill with names of accounts that you want to leave during Auto Unfollow.
• Skip above function - you can specify the minimum number of followers for the account to have to skip it during Auto Unfollow.

more during development...

Keep in mind

• During the runtime do not close the Chrome browser where the actions are made otherwise the program will crash.
• Every hour Instagram lets you perform an action (follow/unfollow) on 60 accounts. And you can follow on your account up to 7,500 people.

After that, you get a warning. Even though the limits are for every hour it does not mean that Instagram will not flag you as a spammer if you keep pushing those limits. If you want to use this program for growth of your account, just run it once a day. Or adjust the time of follows to be longer so you can follow more people throughout the day without being blocked. I will warn you again - no one knows how the algorithm flags spam accounts so be careful.

Getting Started

You need a Chrome browser with chromedriver installed. Chrome-driver is available in the repository in REQUIREMENT_SOFTWARE folder. Full guide on how to install it's available here. Note that you have to add it to your PATH or specify it in scripts/settings.py.

Prerequisites

Also, make sure you have installed Flask and selenium in your python environment. You can use requirements.txt file that you can find inside the cloned repository.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

Get to the folder where you have cloned the repo and simply type

python3 instagram_helper.py

to run the server. Then in the new terminal type or simply click on the link (while pressing CTRL) provided in the console.

google-chrome-stable --app=http://127.0.0.1:5000/

chrome should open in a nice app form.

Running the tests

If you are having some trouble, run the following file

pytest test.py

Built With

• Flask - The Python micro framework for building web applications
• Selenium - umbrella project for a range of tools and libraries that enable and support the automation of web browsers
• Undraw - Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create
• Chart.js - Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Colorlib - Great way to get inspired while designing a website