instaFlayer

A smart Instagram-Bot made in Python.

Introduction to InstaFlayer

InstaFlayer is a fully-featured Instagram Bot which can perform various Instagram operations automatically. It is presently
made in two variants in order for better understanding to the users. The first variant is made upon the instabot library,
while the latter is completely developed using Selenium web-scrapping tool.

Features of instaFlayerv1

1. Can fetch random meme from Reddit
2. Can fetch random image from Unsplash
3. Can post random image from Reddit or Unsplash automatically
4. Can post random caption on the posted image scrapped from SaganIpsum
5. Resets Cache and counter in order to prevent errors while posting.

Features of instaFlayerv2

1. Can comment on user’s photos (random comments as hardcoded)
2. Can like user’s photos
3. Can like and comment based on hashtags
4. Get any user’s followers and perform likes/comments/follow accordingly on them
5. Can follow users

Note:

1. One of the most common error that persists for posting multiple images one after
   the other, it shows
   “ERROR - Photo Upload failed with the following response: instagram bot“
   This error can be solved by resetting cache and counter file content saved when using it. Refer the code for more.
2. Instagram is strict about the automatically operated bots and has declared illegal. So while testing and running the code
   on the profile, don’t perform too many actions otherwise there are chances of the profile to be blocked. Use this only for learning purpose.

How To

1. Fulfill requirements in requirements.txt(i.e. pip install -r requirements.txt).
2. Choose the variant of instaFlayer according to your application
3. Replace username and password with your credentials and run the script
4. To automate this app completely,schedule this script on Windows Task Scheduler, PythonAnywhere etc. platforms.

Credits

Contributors 💻 :

• Soham Shah

Libraries Used

• pillow
• selenium
• instabot
• urllib