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Only like (or follow) "engaged" users on target accounts

Open ndmgrphc opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. A considerable number of followers on target accounts are fake. It would be great to focus what limited access we have (requests/follows/likes per day, etc) to requests on users who are proven engaged. Meaning, they not only follow our target accounts but like (and comment on) their posts.

Describe the solution you'd like An option to run likes/follow on only the users who've engaged with posts (stories/reels) by the target account. Commenters and likers on Stories, Reels and Posts.

Describe alternatives you've considered The alternative would be doing this manually.

Additional context Some of the target accounts I follow have clearly purchased 40-60% of their followers. This is a waste of time. Bots liking bots.

Also, have you explored migrating to playwright? This might be a better issue for your lib. I've used puppeteer and the puppeteer-extra package to avoid detection quite a bit (and with sensitive targets using "sophisticated" bot detection). It seems like playwright is almost never detected as long as it's being used from a reputable IP/connection.

ndmgrphc avatar Aug 12 '22 17:08 ndmgrphc

I think this is related to #98 (or the same?) and I agree it would be much better yea. Just harder to implement!

Also, have you explored migrating to playwright? This might be a better issue for your lib. I've used puppeteer and the puppeteer-extra package to avoid detection quite a bit (and with sensitive targets using "sophisticated" bot detection). It seems like playwright is almost never detected as long as it's being used from a reputable IP/connection.

havent though of that, but it seems to also support electron so that could be possible. However I'm not sure exactly why playwright is better suited to avoid detection, as they both use the same browser (or electron) to browse instagram.com. Do you have any evidence that playwright is almost never detected?

mifi avatar Aug 12 '22 19:08 mifi