This is an unofficial Instagram crawler bot written in Python, using Selenium WebDriver. I am not responsable for any issues you might get from Instagram, from my experience this bot was rather slow, and slow enough to not get spotted by Instagram's algorithm. But I would still suggest you to not run it for too long if you consider using this for growth-hacking. Feel free to fork it change it however you want and share any issues you encounter !
Given a start user "-u", it crawls to other users using Instagram's recommendation.
We Specify with how many posts per user we want to interact with, for example 3 posts : "-n 3"
And then the flags "-f", "-l", "-c" will be in charge to (f)ollow, (l)ike and ( c)omment on these posts.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Then install the geckodriver from selenium if you need to. https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.28.0 You won't need any drivers with chromium.
$ python crawlInsta.py -h
usage: crawlInsta.py [-h] [-e E] [-p P] [-f] [-l] [-c C] [-n N] [-u U] [-b B] [-gp GP]
Unofficial Instagram crawler bot written in Python, using Selenium WebDriver
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-e E The email you used for you Instagram account.
-p P The password you used for you Instagram account.
-f This flag enables follow, by default off.
-l This flag enables likes, by default on.
-c C This enables comments, by default off, you need to give it a String.
-n N Number of post to interact with in an account, by default set to 1
-u U User from what the crawling should start.
-b B There are two supported drivers : 'chrome','geckodriver', Chrome is set by default.
-gp GP Geckodriver's path
$ python crawlInsta.py -e "your@email.com" -p "yourPassword" -f -l -n 3 -c "Hi there I am a bot !" -u "github"