Can it be done?

I've been reading about scraping more and more and I've got an idea for some amazing, quality, and valuable followers.

Go to your larger competition and scrape users that liked their post - that follow them. Make this into a list. Scrape people that commented - that follow them. Make this a list.

This should be done for each picture for say the last 10 pictures. Then compare the lists into multiple categories:

• Highest engagement = who liked + commented + is following the account... on all 10 of the last posts
• Second highest engagement = who liked + commented + is following the account... on at least 5-10 of the last posts
• Third highest engagement = who liked + commented + is following the account... on at least 1 of the last posts
• Fourth highest engagement = who liked + is following the account... on the last 10 posts.
• Fifth highest engagement = who liked + is following the account... on at least 5 posts.

The idea is that this new list of followers consistently interacts with your competition, which means the competition is frequently shown in their feed. If you can find those people, they'll end up seeing you in their feed as well.

What do you all think and have you got suggestions on how to tweak this idea?

You have tested this? Got good results?

Aren't you basically just filtering in bots? like+comment the most recent 10 images. Not many real users do this? Or do they?

I'm always looking for new advanced features to add to our instagram bot, and if you are getting good results with this, might be worth adding. Something like a multi-pass-search-include. tbh it probably can be done already, but would require lots of individual scrapes then file merge on duplicates... but am sure could ease up that process

rootjazz said:

You have tested this? Got good results?

Aren't you basically just filtering in bots? like+comment the most recent 10 images. Not many real users do this? Or do they?

I'm always looking for new advanced features to add to our instagram bot, and if you are getting good results with this, might be worth adding. Something like a multi-pass-search-include. tbh it probably can be done already, but would require lots of individual scrapes then file merge on duplicates... but am sure could ease up that process

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It hasn't been done before as far as I know and I haven't tested it, but I know it would give you a better filter for keeping your followers clean with high engagement.

I should add... This isn't about liking, commenting, or following people and having a bot do it. This post is only about scraping the competition. People who have an account that you want to have your account be like. You're trying to find out who their MOST ENGAGING followers are... So that you can target them with a f/u or like.

basically a research tool "profile engagers research" .

Analyse @profile and output the results....

I think there could be some interest in this, not for everyone mind. Those who like to set and forget won't be interested, but there are many who like to dive into the details and for them would be invaluable, especially for business out reach...

Just added a function that takes a profile and a number of posts to check along with option to only include followers or everyone

It will scrape the recent X posts and:
1) build a scoreboard of users who liked / commented on each (extra point for liking and commenting the same post)
2) Build a separate scoreboard of users who have liked+commented each post.

Both scoreboards are output as a CSV.


Thanks for the idea. Have spoke with a few advanced users and all have said it would be useful information to have!

Can this be shared?

I've been doing this on Twitter for years. It's the way to go IMO.

bartosimpsonio said:

I've been doing this on Twitter for years. It's the way to go IMO.

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Could you share how you're doing the scraping? I'm really new to it, or I wouldn't be asking.

Vyxion said:

Could you share how you're doing the scraping? I'm really new to it, or I wouldn't be asking.

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I write my own bots.

Vyxion said:

Can this be shared?

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Not really, it is a function within our instagram bot