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Instagram bot built with Python 3.7 and the Selenium package.

instagram-bot

Instagram bot built with Python 3.7 and the Selenium package.

Testing

  • 3/19/2019 with Google Chrome v72 and Python 3.7

Current Features

  • Follow a user
  • Unfollow a user
  • Search posts by tag
  • Like a users latest posts
  • Unlike a users latest posts
  • Download a users image media

Instructions for Use

  • Download driver for your respective version of Google Chrome into the root directory of the project. To see your Google Chrome version, go to chrome://version/ in your browser. To download the respective driver, go here: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads.
  • Change the name of the file named config_.ini to config.ini, and add the username and password values in the config.ini file that the Instagram account the bot will use. Username and password combinations can also be passed when creating instances of the InstaBot class in instagram_bot.py.
  • Install the dependencies in requirements.txt, with pip install -r requirements.txt from the root directory of the project, preferably in a Python 3.7 virtual environment.
  • In the instagram_bot.py file, add the lines for the functionality desired at the bottom of the file.