Instagram-Algorithm

A simple algorithm designed to get the relevant users to particular given user profile.

Status

Version 1 developed. Working on making it more accurate. Under development

Algorithm

Test on your machine

To run this, you need Instagram consumer key. Follwo these steps.

1. Go to https://www.instagram.com/developer.
   
2. Login with your Instagram account.
   
3. Go to "Manage Clients"
   
4. Click on "Register a new client"
   
5. Fill out the details and get the Consumer Key.
   Open terminal and follow this commands.

git clone https://github.com/daxeel/Instagram-Algorithm.git
cd Instagram-Algorithm

Open insta-cli.py in your text editor. Replace XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX with your cosumer key. Now start script by entering this command in terminal.

python insta-cli.py [INSTAGRAM_USERNAME]

For example,

python insta-cli.py daxeel_soni

Output

Output will be list of os usernames which are similar to given instagram username.

60 interests found! 

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21 users found
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[u'garvigujarati', u'malhar028', u'shagunchauhan', u'codergirl_', u'nellysugu', u'mindsetofgreatness', u'motivation.entrepreneur', u'modaecustomizacao', u'lovetutorialsx', u'spoonuniversity', u'houseofhighlights', u'sbwheels_goryaev', u'egeozmat', u'deepika__perfection', u'niralivakil98', u'starvingtime', u'savage.vids', u'flamingeos', u'natgeoyourshot', u'motivation', u'dressmybff']

Programming Concepts Used

1. Web Scraping
2. Text Analysis
3. Data Mining
4. API Interaction
5. Error Handling