[Mega Thread] Instagram's botting limits (to be updated)

[Irelle]

I don't know, maybe it was just me, but I was trying to contact about 50 people within 1 hour and I got the block message. After 24hs it disappeared. : - )

 

[Bots-Scrapers]

Since no one else is doing it, I'll take initiative to start sharing the instagram limits within the safe numbers and maybe I will update it personally based on my own observations, mirroring my [current] settings. I'll continue with this if others join in. If I see no interest I'll just ditch it.

The current limits for:

Liking: 100/hour, 450/day, 3000/week (warm up for 2 weeks - 20/hour, 120/day, 1000/week)

• 20-50 likes every 10-20 minutes. 200-400 seconds interval between each action

Commenting (multiple comments, NOT JUST ONE SAME COMMENT): 200/hour, 800/day, 7000/week (warm up for 3-5 weeks - 60/hour, 175/day, 2000/week)

• 40-60 comments every 5-20 minutes, 200-400 seconds interval between each action
• 20-40 comments every 20-40 minutes, 500-700 seconds interval between each action (warm up)

Following: 25/hour, 500/day, 7500/week (warm up for 2-5 weeks - 5/hour, 150/day, 2500/week)

• 5-10 follows every 10-20 minutes, 60-90 seconds interval between each action
• 2-7 follows every 35-50 minutes, 120-360 seconds interval between each action

Unfollowing: 20/hour, 500/day, 7500/week.

• 30-40 unfollows every 50-60 minutes, 2-5 seconds between each action (not too sure, haven't fully tested yet)

Follow 1200 + a day
Unfollow - 800 a day

Works great for me.

 

[BalticProxy_Eu]

Follow 1200 + a day
Unfollow - 800 a day

Works great for me.

How long did it take you to warm up? How long are the breaks in between follows likes?

I had temp blocks left and right with Jarvee. Moved to residential proxy and now trying to warm up all acc. The most active one on posting is doing 800 likes and 700 follows a day with only a few blocks but the rest is getting blocked daily for 3-4 days...

I've increased the limits the way @Edvard Benk suggested and finally I'm able to follow and like again... So it looks like I must restart very slowly and focus on 150-200, increase daily.

What are your thoughts?

 

[carsonpoetry]

thanks for the update man

 

[Edvard Benk]

@EdvardBenk Are you running multiple accounts simultaneously? one by one? or it's just one account?

Max 2 acts per proxy

Is this the new option or the 1st post has been updated accordingly? Mate, this might be what I need. I've been struggling like there is no tomorrow getting blocks left and right...

I'll test out your settings..

Just please let me know if your first post has been updated to todays IG limits, thanks.

My settings are still valid after the update

Are you posting content each day that you DM?

No, posting frequency isn't affecting my limits

How often are you posting content?

See above, post frequency isn't relevant from my experience

I also think there is another thing people aren't looking at.

Instagram will ban you temporarily if you are pulling up too much account info, making too many requests per server. "you are doing that to much try again in a few minutes blah blah blah"

Yes, such as blanks in "followers/following" numbers on accounts and a red alert "please try again"

Follow 1200 + a day
Unfollow - 800 a day

Works great for me.

I found it problematic to be running Follow and Unfollow modules silmuntaneoualy within 1-2 days. I make them go one after another for weeks and 1-2 days rest between switching. Safest settings possible cause most accounts are equity.

How long did it take you to warm up? How long are the breaks in between follows likes?

I had temp blocks left and right with Jarvee. Moved to residential proxy and now trying to warm up all acc. The most active one on posting is doing 800 likes and 700 follows a day with only a few blocks but the rest is getting blocked daily for 3-4 days...

I've increased the limits the way @Edvard Benk suggested and finally I'm able to follow and like again... So it looks like I must restart very slowly and focus on 150-200, increase daily.

What are your thoughts?

Residential proxy is best, even premium paid proxys can't be guaranteed virgin (speaking from experience) cause many providers might just arbitrage free (reliable) proxys. I prefer residential or LTE hotspot.

 

[Edvard Benk]

Reposting from another thread:

the following applies to brand new accounts.

as soon as you create the account:
-set profile picture
-write stuff in bio
-follow 10-20 of whoever instagram suggests you
-spend at least 5 minutes on explore

once done - WAIT for 5-10 days.

after that, start following very slowly. no more than 100/day, and interval no shorter than 10 minutes between each follow.
continue like that for the next 2 weeks.

after 2 weeks: increase your following by 100 more users/day, and decrease the interval by 2 minutes (10 - 2 = 8 minutes)
go on for 2 weeks like that

after that, do the same exact same thing (add 100 more users and subtract 2 minutes,so it'll be 300/day @ 6 minutes inbetween)
continue every 2 weeks until you get to 500 (or 600 if ur risky boi) per day, and less than 2 minutes of interval.

if ur using advanced soft like GMT, make sure to keep track of what hashtags give the best ROI. different niches have different return rate, so YMMV.

there's your advice from someone that has been doing it for 2.5 years.

good luck and remember - content always was and always will be king

 

[.:mAestro:.]

Reposting from another thread:

Thanks. Can you please add the link to that thread?

 

[Edvard Benk]

I rather have the settings for Twitter. Twitter is a real bitch to bot on.

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/instagram-follow-unfollow-limits.999843/#post-10898334

 

[BalticProxy_Eu]

Ok, since I've discovered this thread my sinking boat has been offered a lifeboat. There's light, finally!

Jokes aside, these temp blocks really gave me lots of headache in the last 5-6 weeks. @Edvard Benk you're a hero

 

[OvO]

Ok, since I've discovered this thread my sinking boat has been offered a lifeboat. There's light, finally!

Jokes aside, these temp blocks really gave me lots of headache in the last 5-6 weeks. @Edvard Benk you're a hero

What finally solved the blocks for you?

 

[BalticProxy_Eu]

What finally solved the blocks for you?

Reducing my settings to a warm up stage. Long intervals between all actions. Then increasing gradually. No more blocks. Will see if I'll be able to grow it after the warm up...

But to be honest after 6 weeks of red lights on nearly all tools in Jarvee it feels so good to just see blue and yellow for more than 2 days now

 

[.:mAestro:.]

Reducing my settings to a warm up stage. Long intervals between all actions. Then increasing gradually. No more blocks. Will see if I'll be able to grow it after the warm up...

But to be honest after 6 weeks of red lights on nearly all tools in Jarvee it feels so good to just see blue and yellow for more than 2 days now

Thanks for letting us know!
Do you have issues with first like/follow after you add the account to the bot?

Btw. how long are you personally waiting to do some actions after adding the new account and editing profile?

 

[BalticProxy_Eu]

Thanks for letting us know!
Do you have issues with first like/follow after you add the account to the bot?

Btw. how long are you personally waiting to do some actions after adding the new account and editing profile?

Well all of my accounts are aged. So I start right away with 100-150 likes and follows. Then grow it by 15 daily. 100-120s pauses between actions.

 

[.:mAestro:.]

Well all of my accounts are aged. So I start right away with 100-150 likes and follows. Then grow it by 15 daily. 100-120s pauses between actions.

Thanks, man.
I can see that some people are having follow blocks right away when they add the account to the bot.
The same thing happened to me yesterday after I added some old accounts. That's why I asked you have you had any follow/like blocks right away.
Great for you that you don't have issues like that one!

 

[shahjee]

"Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket."

I don't "bot", but I do all my following via mobile for three separate accounts. Currently on my largest account I can do manual batches of around 220 follows or so. I've had zero issues following 1,500+ accounts in one 24 hour period on one of my accounts, 1,200+ on the second, and 1,000+ on the third. No proxy, same device, same network.

EDIT: I have been doing this for several months.

I am doing Quite similar thing but with a trick and managing 20 using (insta clones ) accounts with a banned proxy

 

[BalticProxy_Eu]

Thanks, man.
I can see that some people are having follow blocks right away when they add the account to the bot.
The same thing happened to me yesterday after I added some old accounts. That's why I asked you have you had any follow/like blocks right away.
Great for you that you don't have issues like that one!

Are you running on residential proxy? I had the same problem when used greencloudvps without a proxy. It's cuz their ip is flagged. when I bought cheap proxies from proxy6.net same problems happened again, moving to instanproxies.com solved the issue for about a week. But then started again, now I'm using residential proxies and its all good.

 

[.:mAestro:.]

Are you running on residential proxy? I had the same problem when used greencloudvps without a proxy. It's cuz their ip is flagged. when I bought cheap proxies from proxy6.net same problems happened again, moving to instanproxies.com solved the issue for about a week. But then started again, now I'm using residential proxies and its all good.

I was testing a lot of different proxies. Will test some residential as well. If it's not a problem could you share your provider? You can PM me as well.
What are your settings now while using residential proxies? Can you go fast up to 400 likes or follows?

 

[Edvard Benk]

Are you running on residential proxy? I had the same problem when used greencloudvps without a proxy. It's cuz their ip is flagged. when I bought cheap proxies from proxy6.net same problems happened again, moving to instanproxies.com solved the issue for about a week. But then started again, now I'm using residential proxies and its all good.

Nothing, no proxy provider will ever be as good as a residential IP address. That's learned from a bitter first hand experience.

 

[BalticProxy_Eu]

I was testing a lot of different proxies. Will test some residential as well. If it's not a problem could you share your provider? You can PM me as well.
What are your settings now while using residential proxies? Can you go fast up to 400 likes or follows?

Look up goso.io proxy tutorial on YouTube. It's a residential proxy but activated via your own so they're creating it for you. As good as home ip. Or as close as it gets.

At the moment I have reduced all actions to a crawl, as if warm up stage.

In 6-7 days from now will double if no blocks on any accounts.

Then will increase again after about a week. Will keep doing that until I'll reach 500 likes / 500 follows / 200 comments. If still no blocks in 4-5 wish then will try to increase and see how far I can push it. I'm planning on writing a thread explaining my journey as it's a common issue a lot of us face.

 

[OvO]

Ok so I just put my settings at:

10-20 minute delays between operations
150-300 seconds between follows
10-20 users to interact with

Should I go with lower users to follow per run you guys think? Like maybe 3-5 instead of 10-20?