How to add bedtime and random delay

[jasonywh]

Can anyone pls help me add a code to make it run in day time only & sleep at night time ? currently the below code auto post only 1 photo every 24 hours, but I want it to auto post around 5 photo on day time & after that pause on night time, then resume posting on next day, also I need to have random delay between 5 post to make it more natural

import glob

import os

import sys

import time

from io import open

sys.path.append(os.path.join(sys.path[0], "../../"))

from instabot import Bot  # noqa: E402



posted_pic_list = []

try:
    
      with open("pics.txt", "r", encoding="utf8") as f:

           posted_pic_list = f.read().splitlines()

except Exception:
    posted_pic_list = []



timeout = 24 * 60 * 60  # pics will be posted every 24 hours



bot = Bot()

bot.login()



while True:
    
      folder_path = "./pics"
    
      pics = glob.glob(folder_path + "/*.jpg")
    
      pics = sorted(pics)
    
      try:
        
            for pic in pics:
            
                  if pic in posted_pic_list:
                
                           continue

            

             pic_name = pic[:-4].split("-")
            
             pic_name = "-".join(pic_name[1:])

            

             print("upload: " + pic_name)

            
             description_file = folder_path + "/" + pic_name + '.txt'

            
             if os.path.isfile(description_file):
                
                   with open(description_file, 'r') as file:
                    
                            caption = file.read()
            
              else:
                
                            caption = pic_name.replace("-", " ")

            

              bot.upload_photo(pic, caption=caption)
            
              if bot.api.last_response.status_code != 200:
                
                     print(bot.api.last_response)
                
                     # snd msg
                
                     break

            

               if pic not in posted_pic_list:
                
                     posted_pic_list.append(pic)
                
                     with open("pics.txt", "a", encoding="utf8") as f:
                    
                             f.write(pic + "\n")

            

               time.sleep(timeout)

    

       except Exception as e:
        
              print(str(e))
    
        time.sleep(60)


thanks in advance if anyone can pls help me modify this

[williamyorkl]

simple way : you can use the mod, add a counter, every loop ,then the counter +1, after the the counter reaches random.randiant(8,12) ,then run the scripts again. :-)

[ghost]

please use schedule.

for example :

https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/blob/master/examples/ultimate_schedule/ultimate.py

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