How to make an Instagram Bot with Python

Do you use Instagram? Do you want to know how to build an Instagram Bot?

This tutorial will teach you how to automate Instagram activities with the help of an Instagram bot. Let's get started!

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Prerequisites for making one (Bot)

- Python
- Instapy module in Python
- An Instagram account, which you will use to run the bot script.

That's it. Now let's dive straight into the code.

Time To Code!

Now let's Understand the code.

Installation of instapy

pip install Instapy

Important: Depending on your system, make sure to use pip3 and python3 instead.

If you would like to install a specific version of Instapy you may do so with:

pip install instapy==0.1.1

Set the login credentials

You can put in your account details now by passing the username and password parameters to the InstaPy() function in your bot script, like so:

InstaPy(insta_username="abc", 
        insta_password="123")

If want InstaPy to run in the background pass the --headless- browser option when running from the CLI Or add the headless_browser=True parameter to the InstaPy(headless_browser=True) constructor.

Liking

The bot will fetch posts with hashtag python3 and javascript. Set the amount to the number of posts you wish to like.

session.like_by_tags(['python3','javascript'], amount=300)

Follow

By default enabled=False, follows every 2nd user from the images

session.set_do_follow(True, percentage=50)

Comment

Enable comments (by default enabled=False) and set commenting probability to 100% so ~ every image will be commented on

session.set_do_follow(True, percentage=100)

Configure a simple list of optional comments, one will be selected at random when commenting:

session.set_comments(['Comment1', 'Comment2', 'Comment3'])

Excluding friends

will prevent commenting on and unfollowing your good friends (the images will still be liked)

session.set_dont_include(['friend1', 'friend2', 'friend3'])

Interactions based on the number of followers and/or following a user has

This is used to check the number of followers and/or following a user has and if these numbers either exceed the number set OR does not pass the number set OR if their ratio does not reach desired potency ratio then no further interaction happens

session.set_relationship_bounds(enabled=True,
                                    delimit_by_numbers=True,
                                    max_followers=3000,
                                    min_followers=150,
                                    min_following=50)

Quota Supervisor

Take full control of the actions with the most sophisticated approaches

session.set_quota_supervisor(enabled=True,
                                    peak_comments_daily=250,
                                    peak_comments_hourly=30,
                                    peak_likes_daily=250,
                                    peak_likes_hourly=30,
                                 sleep_after=['likes', 'follows'])

Once done, we will end the session by session.end().

You are ready to run the bot!

Once you have your bot script configured you can execute the script with the following commands.

python instagrambot.py

You can find my code at GitHub.

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Good luck with making your own. If you have any Queries or Suggestions, please reach out to me in the Comments Section below.