How would you go about making a follower collector?

[Bana Rynka]

This question is directed to people who are somewhat aware and semi-savvy around the tech side of things.

We know that ig tries to hide followers of a target account after a number, say after 2000. We also know that ig displays followers in a specific order (according to google i believe its the most recent-interacted people). If this is the case, how would a guy with say, 20 ig accounts lying around on different IPs, be able to collaborate and find all the followers of a particular target account? Would they not just get the same accounts because the order is the same?

Some will say jarvee does this somehow because they have access to many dummy accounts probably. But I'm out here trying to figure out how, so I can implement it myself. As you can see that having a lot of accounts isn't necessarily enough, there's some other technique to it, to scrape the rest of the accounts.

Thanks in advance.

 

[alain12]

Assuming that IG displays different accounts when viewing from different accounts, all you'd have to do is:

Collect list of followers from each account you have,
Merge these lists into one,
Sort and remove duplicates.

 

[Bana Rynka]

Assuming that IG displays different accounts when viewing from different accounts, all you'd have to do is:

Collect list of followers from each account you have,
Merge these lists into one,
Sort and remove duplicates.

Yea I know. It's like you did not read my original post. If this was that easy I would have done this already. Because your initial assumption is wrong. Ig has a order in which it displays followers. Look it up on google, "What order do instagram show followers?" The answer is resoundingly, that the followers are calculated in order of most recent interactions of that follower to that target account (is the same no matter which account you view this from), so this method does not work. How do things like Jarvee do this?