[Account Control] Count and Limit the amount of events from the script

[ap0l0]

I am currently talking with Facebook Creator Team (my account is legacy verified) and I am discussing the reason my account was restricted from "liking posts". The reason is obvious, this script was overused by me, so I am wondering if we can add a way to control this — here are some suggestions:

1. Make the script count all actions, so far IG seems to treat the restrictions differently based on the action for example:

• View Profile (~800-1000 a day for my account, other might differ)
• Like Post (~400-600)
• Like Comments (~600-800)
• View Story (no idea)
• Like Story (no idea)

2. Stop the script as soon as the Block alert is shown by Instagram:

@shine-jayakumar just adding another screenshot of a different softban message, this appears after opening too many profiles (specially using -ff):

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3. Rework the --delay option , for example by default it selects a random number of seconds but if you add -d 15 then it waits exact 15 seconds to perform next action. The most "human-like" solution I believe should be to change delay like this:

-d 15 = Wait 15 seconds (like it is now) -d 0-15 = Wait randomly seconds between 0 and 15 -d 10-40 = Wait randomly between 10 to 40 seconds

This way the script will act less exact and more human-like

4. Make the script share the total actions performed as it works, like a "status" so we can see if we are going over the limit and stop it.

[shine-jayakumar]

@ap0l0 Sad it happened but I guess the restriction will be lifted soon.

• point # 3: currently, if delay is not specified, it selects a random number (0-10 seconds). Accepting a range would be a nice addition
• point # 4: in the lastest version, I've added the status to the end of the script (number of likes, posts viewed, stories likes etc.). I can make it show the status while it's running.
• point # 1: script is currently counting the actions but since we don't know the exact limit for each action for an account, we're going to have to assume a number. I'll have to check the IG guidelines if there's anything specified there.
• point # 2: should a nice addition.

[ap0l0]

• point # 1: script is currently counting the actions but since we don't know the exact limit for each action for an account, we're going to have to assume a number. I'll have to check the IG guidelines if there's anything specified there.

This number changes and is dynamic for each account based on age, activity, etc. We will have to leave each user to control the actions per day according to their account.