ig-automation

This is a simple Instagram bot based on Node.js/Puppeteer.
It was developed for my personal need of propagating a commercial Instagram profile.
This process was implemented in 06/2021. It is possible that this implementation will need to be adjusted in the future.

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Features

I don't believe that any Instagram bot is capable of:

• write meaningful comments under Instagram posts
• follow/unfollow users without them noticing it

For that reason this bot has been designed for only two purposes:

1. Scrape list of followers of given Instagram profile
2. Like posts of given Instagram users

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Prerequisities

• Node.js, npm cli
• Puppeteer ^9.0.0
• argparse ^2.0.1
• date-and-time ^1.0.0

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Usage

npm install

Most user configuration is stored in run.js. More specific configuration as well as element selectors are stored in class constructors.

1. Scrape name of followers of given Instagram profile

node run list

Bot opens list of followers of given Instagram profile.
Each follower is checked:

• whether the profile is not private
• whether the profile is not empty
• whether the profile posts are newer than given treshold

Names of suitable profiles are saved into given file.

NOTE: This process is highly repetitive which means Instagram will not like it :) Never use your commercial profile and IP for this action.

Parameter	Description	Example
login='./data/login'	File containing two lines with Instagram login data.	instagram-username instagram-password
cookies='./data/cookies.json'	Instagram requires sessionid cookie to be present in all pages and requests. For that reason user must provide this additional token in json file as exported from Chrome	[ { "name": "sessionid", "value": "token", "domain": ".instagram.com", "path": "/", "expires": -1, "httpOnly": true, "secure": true, "sameParty": false } ]
proxy='./data/proxy'	If given, bot will connect via proxy. File contains three lines	proxy-server proxy-username proxy-password
profile='name'	Target profile name for scraping
startFrom=0	In case number>0 is given, bot scrolls down to given follower and starts scraping afterwards
fileName='./data/profiles'	Filename to save scraped profile names

2. Like posts of given Instagram users

node run like

This process is designed to imitate user behaviour and it is suitable for commercial profiles.
The bot will open random profiles from given file and like their posts (if possible).
Time delay is set between repetitive actions.

NOTE: Instagram has limitations for number of likes per hour and per day. Not respecting those limitations may result in profile ban.

Parameter	Description	Example
login='./data/login'	File containing two lines with Instagram login data.	instagram-username instagram-password
cookies='./data/cookies.json'	Instagram requires sessionid cookie to be present in all pages and requests. For that reason user must provide this additional token in json file as exported from Chrome	[ { "name": "sessionid", "value": "token", "domain": ".instagram.com", "path": "/", "expires": -1, "httpOnly": true, "secure": true, "sameParty": false } ]
proxy='./data/proxy'	If given, bot will connect via proxy. File contains three lines	proxy-server proxy-username proxy-password
fileName='./data/profiles'	File with rows containing profile names to like	profilename1 profilename2 profilename3 ...
noProfiles=20	Number of profiles to like
likesPerProfile=1	Number of likes per profile