Set unfollow parameters?

[ghost]

Is it possible to set the bot to unfollow everyone who is following more than 2000 accounts?

IE

bot scrapes followings>unfollows accounts with more than 2000 following

[nickpettican]

Yes it's possible @inhaletime, I'll give you a quick and easy way (although this won't cover 100% of the people you follow). Luckily if you've been running the bot for a while you'll have a large following list in profile.json. Here's what you can do:

• [ ] Open profile.json and add all following users with 2000+ following to a list
• [ ] Write the IDs of these users to a CSV file with one user ID per row
• [ ] Copy these user IDs into following.csv in /cache
• [ ] Run the bot

Here's the script to do this:

from json import load
from csv import writer

with open('profile.json') as dataFile:
   profile = load(dataFile)

usersUnfollow = [[user['user_id']] for user in profile['follows'] if user['follows'] > 2000]

with open('unfollowTheseIDs.csv', 'wb') as out:
   w = writer(out)
   w.writerows(usersUnfollow)

[ghost]

Amazing Nick, Im having so much fun learning Python with people like you in this community. Now let see if I can figure out how to sort the .json file. and pull out the user names.

[nickpettican]

No problem!

If you have a large list of usernames you could even play around with check_user() in instaFunctions.py to get their IDs and include them in following.csv in /cache, and they will be unfollowed when you run the bot.

Note that check_user() takes a requests.Session() object with a desktop user agent (you can find out how to do this in start_requests() in instabot.py), the user URL https://www.instagram.com/%s/ and a username.