Instagram Bot developed using Selenium
Instagram Bot developed using Selenium

Instagram-Bot: Instagram Bot developed using Selenium

An Instagram bot developed using the Selenium Framework

Features

  • Download all posts of a single user
  • Like or unlike all posts of a single user
  • Bulk unfollow
  • Bulk comments on a single post
  • Bulk unfollow all users that do not follow back
  • Delete messages in bulk
  • Download highlighted stories
  • Download stories
  • Download a single post
  • Download an IG TV Video
  • Follow all the followers of a single user
  • Follow all listed users in a file
  • Follow all users that have liked a single post
  • Follow users based on tag
  • Like posts based on tag
  • Like or unlike a single post
  • Comment on a single post
  • Follow or unfollow a user
  • Block or unblock a user

Other Features

  • Support for two languages: English and Turkish.
  • Option of running browser window in normal or incognito modes has been granted.
  • A settings menu has been included. Settings menu features language and browser settings.

Details

  • You may use the features above by logging into your Instagram account.
  • Instagram login for accounts with 2-factor authentication is also possible.
  • As the project is currently under development, the 2-factor authentication feature has been set to assume that the 2Fa code is sent to the user’s phone number.
  • Default language has been set as English.

Configuration Settings

  • Project utilizes Firefox browser as webdriver. This requires Firefox to be installed for the application to work properly.
  • In order to use Firefox webdriver needs to be downloaded and the directory path for the downloaded webdriver needs to be set within config.json.

Config Options

  • driver_path: Denotes the Webdriver directory path.
  • headless: Denotes if the browser is visible or not. Default value:true
  • language: Denotes the language of the application.
  • languages: Includes the settings, menu and warning messages for all language options.
  • time: denotes the operation waiting times for all the operations where time.sleep() has been used.

Package installation for Windows users

python -m pip install -r .\requirements.txt

Usage

menu‘ commands needs to be used for returning to the main menu from any prompt that asks the user for input.

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python instagram.py

Notes

  • Operation intervals has been set for a length of time that prevents your account from getting banned for bulk operations of post-likes, user-follows or commenting.
  • The operation intervals may be changed from within config.json.
  • Has been tested only under Windows.
  • Python version: 3.8.1

Technologies used

  • Python
  • Selenium
  • Javascript

Screenshots

Main menu

Main menu Instagram Bot
Main menu Instagram Bot

Download posts

Download posts Instagram bot
Download posts Instagram bot

Like posts

Like posts Instagram bot
Like posts Instagram bot

Bulk unfollow

Bulk unfollow Instagram bot
Bulk unfollow Instagram bot

Bulk commenting

Bulk commenting Instagram bot
Bulk commenting Instagram bot

Bulk comment deletion

Bulk comment deletion Instagram bot
Bulk comment deletion Instagram bot