Account gets detected as compromised after using bot.watch_users_reels module for a few hours

null-routed commented 4 years ago

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My Issue

Hello everyone, I tried making a quick script to mass view instagram stories. It lasted for about 3 hours and viewed around 10.000 stories, after that, my script was blocked and my account was displaying this message on phone.

After resetting my account I've waited 48 hours to make sure I didn't have any rate limits on my account and tried running this script here https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/blob/master/examples/stories/watch_user_likers_stories.py as I thought I made something wrong on mine.

After running for about 4 hours and viewing about 6500 stories I eventually got the same message. Here comes my question. Did anyone figure out what are they detecting? Is it the bot/IP or just a rate limit? If there's a rate limit, did anyone find out what's the maximum number of stories you can view in a certain timeframe? Thank you.

duplicate-issues[bot] commented 4 years ago

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fighterii commented 4 years ago

@null-routed : little bit off topic, but out of curiosity: how often could you reset the account? I'm scared of hitting the block second time with my main account..

imbarismustafa commented 4 years ago

I can confirm. At around 10k views I got the same. The account was fresh new and was just testing the feature. I think one must do less than 10k views in 24 hour timeframe instead of just within 4 hours. Will test it soon. How is on your end?

null-routed commented 4 years ago

@fighterii Sorry for the late reply but I was not somehow notified about your comment. I have received that message about 7 times and my account looks to be still fine.

@imbarismustafa I believe there's a limit to the whole amount of requests you perform to instagram. I tried to start an auto-liking script after I had recovered my account but I got blocked soon after. I didn't have time to investigate further but maybe they are rate-limiting IPs and not auth tokens, that would be good news.

imbarismustafa commented 4 years ago

@null-routed do you know how to make it work with proxy? I see the second argument is for target. I tried to modify and add proxy in the bot.login() but no luck.

null-routed commented 4 years ago

@imbarismustafa bot.login(username = my_username, password =my_password, proxy = my_proxy) This works for me. Also the proxies I'm using were passed in the ip:port format. Not sure if they support user:pw auth too.

imbarismustafa commented 4 years ago

@imbarismustafa bot.login(username = my_username, password =my_password, proxy = my_proxy) This works for me. Also the proxies I'm using were passed in the ip:port format. Not sure if they support user:pw auth too.

Thanks but for me doesnt so will look for an alternative. Currently I keep pushing and keep getting AC when viewing stories even after I have modified to a custom device settings. I changed the Instagram version number to the latest from 8th of January but still does not make a difference. Will keep testing.

bruvv commented 4 years ago

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!

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