Recent content by RupFox

I don't log into Instagram every time, I open the browser once with a chrome user profile that is already logged into to Instagram. Then I do everything in one session, just hitting different URLs. IS this what you were asking? Does your scraper run at full speed or do you also use random...

UPDATE: I managed to successfully run the script for 3 hours today and followed 65 people while liking roughly 40 posts. I did it from my home wifi network. Not sure why it worked today while yesterday it was going nuts. I did add some more random waits and random scroll behavior. So it goes to...

As I state in the OP I am using Webdriver (Which is Selenium);

FWIW because of the mobile emulation it seems like websites actually detect my user agent as an ios based browser. Here's what comes up as my useragent from the automation browser: ua rawUa: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko)...

Keyword "Seemed", meaning that there probably were rate limits but it seemed like there weren't any because I never ran into them. You got any other constructive criticism to add?

Any tips on how to mask Chrome Driver? My account age/quality should be fine, as stated in my OP they are real accounts I've used for years.

For sure, but that requires using something like Appium which is a huge PIA.

I'm not unfollowing anyone yet because I can barely get started following them. I only want to start unfollowing people after a month. Using a real 3g connection, you mean by tethering my phone? I've sseen some online mobile proxy providers but they all look shady AF to me....

Now I feel stupid....How do you do that if you ARE using Chromedriver? Or should I switch to Firefox/edge/safari?

I spent all weekend creating a custom automation script (Using webdriver). I had actually done this once before over a year ago, and there seemed to be NO rate limits. I was going crazy and all was well. I decided to record a video tutorial on writing an instagram bot from scratch this weekend...