Like, follow, command action block

[5sfayas]

Instagram finds out after every 10 likes that I am using bot. because my like, follow and comment activities are blocked.

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[leoccyao]

Known issue, not a problem with the codebase. Use higher delay settings or randomize actions more.

See #926

[truff77]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to this but I was thinking of the same thing. To avoid being detected by the ML algorithms we should act like the real app being used by a real human. I wanted first to look like the real app and was thinking about a way to extract my phone and app data so as to fill it in the https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/blob/master/instabot/api/devices.py file. Do you know how I could do this ?

Then it will be about launching the bot directly from the smartphone (or using a proxy) so as to have the same IP as the real app. Finally, the workflows must look like real humans. Doing so will replicate real human and real app behavior and there won't be any way for the ML to detect.

[truff77]

Hi @reliefs I managed to get the right user-agent (same as my phone) and use the same IP. I'm just trying to like hashtags (no follow or anything else) and it works pretty well for a period of time but as soon as I try to like a new hashtags it blocks after a few likes. I also commented out the section " TODO: commented out simulation "open link in app" in bot_like.py and made it be used by using the right container_module. I wanted to make it as close as real app as possible. Still no luck. To come back to the last part of my initial message what I would require now is to capture traffic (and decypt it) from the real app so as to better understand a real work flow. Then it should be easy to replicate. Is there any documentation that could help me ? I can code in Python and help implementing this into this project.

thanks in advance

[truff77]

Actually I'm not using the full bot script, just the like_hashtag() function but I assume this is the problem with the ML. I've found ways to analyze real app traffic so I can script exact same behavior using low level API calls.

[truff77]

Hi @reliefs thank you for the hints. I'll keep you updated.

[truff77]

I'll give a try

[bruvv]

I am closing this in favor of this post: https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/issues/1194 please continu the ban discussion there Thanks for the issue btw!