InstaPy, instagram-private-api or mouse manipulation?

[dohyung97022]

InstaPy uses selenium and instagram-private-api uses the app api.
I was even considering using mouse manipulation with multilogin or incogniton.
Multilogin and incogniton offers selenium but it is a bit too expensive for a beginner like me.
I also know that jarvee leaves fingerprints and get blocked easily.

So I was considering InstaPy, instagram-private-api, or mouse keyboard manipulation.

Anybody have insights or experiences?

 

[thetoothfairy]

what is mouse manipulation?

 

[duke1921]

I think the best way would be the one which least people are using.

 

[dohyung97022]

what is mouse manipulation?

Stuff like robot.js or pyautogui

 

[DunderMannen]

There's no way to do spammy actions with the API. Since you need to get an API key for each account.

Instapy is no use either to be honest, it was good a few years ago. But since you are VERY limited to what you can do with it (it's a library), it's very hard not to get caught by the bot protection.

My recommendation; make your own script. Either using Selenium (very slow and chunky, can't scale), or Requests (fast and scaleable).

 

[rauza]

There's no way to do spammy actions with the API. Since you need to get an API key for each account.

Instapy is no use either to be honest, it was good a few years ago. But since you are VERY limited to what you can do with it (it's a library), it's very hard not to get caught by the bot protection.

My recommendation; make your own script. Either using Selenium (very slow and chunky, can't scale), or Requests (fast and scaleable).

Or a combination of the two as some js events and header queries can get tedious to simulate with just requests for more complex use cases.

 

[dohyung97022]

So my best bet would be multilogin or incogniton with chromedriver?

But I was wondering, if we click on a button with selenium, would that not only click the pixel perfect center or give actions to instagrams js without the cordinates?

Does chromedriver work without getting blocked? Or are you guys just burning accs for a main account?

So many questions!