Hi Devs!
In this lab we are going to automate some actions using Instagram API.
Gain active followers - Algorithm
Maybe some of you do not agree it is a good way to grow your IG page by using follow for follow method but after a lot of researching I found the proper way to use this method.
I have done and used this strategy for a while and my page visits also followers started growing.
The majority of people failing because they randomly targeting the followers and as a result, they are not coming back to your page. So, the key is to find people those have same interests with you.
If you have a programming page go and search for IG pages which have big programming community and once you find one, don't send follow requests to followers of this page. Because some of them are not active even maybe fake accounts. So, in order to gain active followers, go the last post of this page and find people who liked the post.
I think you get the idea. Those people will like your posts as well because they are active followers.
Unofficial Instagram API
In order to query data from Instagram I am going to use the very cool, yet unofficial, Instagram API written by Pasha Lev.
Note: Before you test it make sure you verified your phone number in your IG account.
The program works pretty well so far but in case of any problems I have to put disclaimer statement here:
Disclaimer: This post published educational purposes only as well as to give general information about Instagram API. I am not responsible for any actions and you are taking your own risk.
Let's start by installing and then logging in with API.
pip install InstagramApi
from InstagramAPI import InstagramAPI
api = InstagramAPI("username", "password")
api.login(Once you run the program you will see "Login success!" in your console.
Get users from liked list
We are going to search for some username (your target page) then get most recent post from this user. Then, get users who liked this post. Unfortunately, I can't find solution how to paginate users so right now it gets about last 500 user.
users_list = []
def get_likes_list(username):
api.login()
api.searchUsername(username)
result = api.LastJson
username_id = result['user']['pk'] # Get user ID
user_posts = api.getUserFeed(username_id) # Get user feed
result = api.LastJson
media_id = result['items'][0]['id'] # Get most recent post
api.getMediaLikers(media_id) # Get users who liked
users = api.LastJson['users']
for user in users: # Push users to list
users_list.append({'pk':user['pk'], 'username':user['username']})Follow Users
Once we get the users list, it is time to follow these users.
IMPORTANT NOTE: set time limit as much as you can to avoid automation detection.
from time import sleep
following_users = []
def follow_users(users_list):
api.login()
api.getSelfUsersFollowing() # Get users which you are following
result = api.LastJson
for user in result['users']:
following_users.append(user['pk'])
for user in users_list:
if not user['pk'] in following_users: # if new user is not in your following users
print('Following @' + user['username'])
api.follow(user['pk'])
# after first test set this really long to avoid from suspension
sleep(20)
else:
print('Already following @' + user['username'])
sleep(10)Unfollow Users
This function will look users which you are following then it will check if this user follows you as well. If user not following you then you are unfollowing as well.
follower_users = []
def unfollow_users():
api.login()
api.getSelfUserFollowers() # Get your followers
result = api.LastJson
for user in result['users']:
follower_users.append({'pk':user['pk'], 'username':user['username']})
api.getSelfUsersFollowing() # Get users which you are following
result = api.LastJson
for user in result['users']:
following_users.append({'pk':user['pk'],'username':user['username']})
for user in following_users:
if not user['pk'] in follower_users: # if the user not follows you
print('Unfollowing @' + user['username'])
api.unfollow(user['pk'])
# set this really long to avoid from suspension
sleep(20) Full Code with extra functions
Here is the full code of this automation:
import pprint
from time import sleep
from InstagramAPI import InstagramAPI
import pandas as pd
users_list = []
following_users = []
follower_users = []
class InstaBot:
def __init__(self):
self.api = InstagramAPI("your_username", "your_password")
def get_likes_list(self,username):
api = self.api
api.login()
api.searchUsername(username) #Gets most recent post from user
result = api.LastJson
username_id = result['user']['pk']
user_posts = api.getUserFeed(username_id)
result = api.LastJson
media_id = result['items'][0]['id']
api.getMediaLikers(media_id)
users = api.LastJson['users']
for user in users:
users_list.append({'pk':user['pk'], 'username':user['username']})
bot.follow_users(users_list)
def follow_users(self,users_list):
api = self.api
api.login()
api.getSelfUsersFollowing()
result = api.LastJson
for user in result['users']:
following_users.append(user['pk'])
for user in users_list:
if not user['pk'] in following_users:
print('Following @' + user['username'])
api.follow(user['pk'])
# set this really long to avoid from suspension
sleep(20)
else:
print('Already following @' + user['username'])
sleep(10)
def unfollow_users(self):
api = self.api
api.login()
api.getSelfUserFollowers()
result = api.LastJson
for user in result['users']:
follower_users.append({'pk':user['pk'], 'username':user['username']})
api.getSelfUsersFollowing()
result = api.LastJson
for user in result['users']:
following_users.append({'pk':user['pk'],'username':user['username']})
for user in following_users:
if not user['pk'] in follower_users:
print('Unfollowing @' + user['username'])
api.unfollow(user['pk'])
# set this really long to avoid from suspension
sleep(20)
bot = InstaBot()
# To follow users run the function below
# change the username ('instagram') to your target username
bot.get_likes_list('instagram')
# To unfollow users uncomment and run the function below
# bot.unfollow_users()it will look like this:
some extra functions to play with API:
def get_my_profile_details():
api.login()
api.getSelfUsernameInfo()
result = api.LastJson
username = result['user']['username']
full_name = result['user']['full_name']
profile_pic_url = result['user']['profile_pic_url']
followers = result['user']['follower_count']
following = result['user']['following_count']
media_count = result['user']['media_count']
df_profile = pd.DataFrame(
{'username':username,
'full name': full_name,
'profile picture URL':profile_pic_url,
'followers':followers,
'following':following,
'media count': media_count,
}, index=[0])
df_profile.to_csv('profile.csv', sep='\t', encoding='utf-8')
def get_my_feed():
image_urls = []
api.login()
api.getSelfUserFeed()
result = api.LastJson
# formatted_json_str = pprint.pformat(result)
# print(formatted_json_str)
if 'items' in result.keys():
for item in result['items'][0:5]:
if 'image_versions2' in item.keys():
image_url = item['image_versions2']['candidates'][1]['url']
image_urls.append(image_url)
df_feed = pd.DataFrame({
'image URL':image_urls
})
df_feed.to_csv('feed.csv', sep='\t', encoding='utf-8')Mission Accomplished!
I hope you learned something today and if you want to watch video tutorial of this post visit YouTube channel - Reverse Python. Also check web application of Reverse Python
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