Feature Request / Question: Exclude List Of Usernames

[skmbr]

In instauto/example.js I see you have an option to set an excludeUsers array.

Is there any way to set this in SimpleInstaBot?

Alternatively, would manually adding all my current follows/followers to the [username]-unfollowed.json file in ~/Library/Application Support/SimpleInstaBot cause them to not be unfollowed/followed by the bot?

Thanks!

[mifi]

Is there any way to set this in SimpleInstaBot?

not yet

Alternatively, would manually adding all my current follows/followers to the [username]-unfollowed.json file in ~/Library/Application Support/SimpleInstaBot cause them to not be unfollowed/followed by the bot?

that should work yes. add them to followed.json and unfollowed.json with the correct format

[skmbr]

Great, thanks! I'll give that a try

[skmbr]

Sorry to drag up an old post, but I've tried this a couple of times over the last few months and could never get it to work, it just immediately starts unfollowing the people I'm already following :(

I think what would be ideal is a setting to only ever unfollow people that the app itself followed, and leave everyone else alone.

I'd love to use the app, but I can't until I can find a way to stop it unfollowing the people I have existing relationships with.

[mifi]

you added a username (without @) to followed.json and unfollowed.json, but the bot still unfollows them? that sounds like a bug then

I think what would be ideal is a setting to only ever unfollow people that the app itself followed, and leave everyone else alone.

this is how it's intended to work. if it unfollows users that it has not followed (in normal mode) then that would be a bug too