Instagram Accounts: Automating the Content Creation Process?

[mkilic]

Hello BHW,

Still a noob in this community so please excuse my silly question if it is one...

Story:

I created an very niche inspirational Instagram page and started making posts to attract the specific type of followers. In about a month of doing so I got to around 300-400 followers. Unfortunately, I couldn't keep up to my schedule of posting an image 2-3 times a day. So here I am with a potential filled Instagram account and am looking for a way to rejuvenate it with automation.

When I started I created 20+ posts to essentially just run off of each week. After a while, school started back up and I suddenly didn't have the time to search and edit all of my posts in a way that worked.

Today:

I have some more time to create some posts again but I am looking to see if there is a way to automate the entire process of creating my posts. All they are is a stock photo from Pixabay and an inspirational quote from the Internet. From a Photoshop perspective it is a really simple 4 layer file with the image, a text layer, a vignette, and a fancy shape to give inspirational vibes. The only things that change are the image, and text. Everything else is the same and I believe that it could be automated.

I Googled for some answers but it seems the Photoshop Actions are the closest that I can find as an answer. I wanted to see if anyone here knows what I am talking about or could provide some guidance on the matter.

Thank You All and Have a Great Day!

Edit:
Thanks to mynameisfrankenstein, I was able to get going on this pretty quick, I will post here if I figure out anything reasonable.
(Didn't know that wget was such an amazing program!)

 

[mynameisfrankenstein]

wget to download images and quotes
imagemagick to edit text onto them, and to add color filters
imacros to upload to instagram (if you can upload from browser, not sure)

 

[jandel122]

You'd probably spend more time automating your photo creation process than if you just manually did them

 

[mynameisfrankenstein]

You'd probably spend more time automating your photo creation process than if you just manually did them

Yep. If you have no experience coding, then this will take a long time.

 

[mkilic]

wget to download images and quotes
imagemagick to edit text onto them, and to add color filters
imacros to upload to instagram (if you can upload from browser, not sure)

I will definitely look into these tools. I hadn't found these in my research, Thank You!

 

[mkilic]

You'd probably spend more time automating your photo creation process than if you just manually did them

It seems like that may be the case but its alright, I have some time on my hands and can at least give it a shot!

 

[outscrape]

Serious question - Why does your content need to be original? What if you regram posts? I did this for some time and got a lot of responses and followers.

 

[mkilic]

Serious question - Why does your content need to be original? What if you regram posts? I did this for some time and got a lot of responses and followers.

You are right, I really don't need to but since I started and already established a style (100+ posts already) I decided it would be best to keep going with that method. However, if it becomes worse then I might go with what you suggested.

 

[BlackCat0.0]

Good luck on your account