[Tutorial] Setting up a FREE Instagram bot: instabot.py

blackhatmint said:

Hey FOAM, which one is better in your opinion? AWS or PythonAnywhere?

Is there anyway to setup a schedule for the bot on AWS? Or somekind of script I could add or modify for that?

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blackhatmint said:

Where can I get some good latin american proxys?

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ryuu said:

Craig, actually the example script only does the work follows_user_followers, take a look at bot_follow.py, line 38.
follower_ids = self.get_user_followers(user_id)
This line get the followers of a user and dumps it into an array. Unfortunately, I am out of my depths here.

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FOAM said:

I'm not really going to try & compare them because I haven't setup AWS but I'm familiar with the process, I can tell you that PythonAnywhere is a way faster setup & 100x easier to manage with schedule already built in. Not sure if AWS is capable without additional coding.

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blackhatmint said:

Hey thanks, I already have the script running like charm on PythonEverywhere, I'm very lost in the schedule part, how can I make it work only from 00 to 10 am? Like I don't understand the schedule interface

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vodkacola said:

Yes, you can change the amount of daily follows, and the amount of hours per day in which it is active. The bot adjusts it's speed based on these two settings.

Followers yes, likers I'm not sure.

"get media id by tag"
This is normal, it just says the tag from which it will next like images and follow users.

"Except on get_media!"
Are you using blocked tags? I get this for NSFW tags that are censored by Instagram.


Have you properly installed Python?
You can check that by opening cmd.exe and typing in python. You should see your python version number and a bunch of other info pop up.

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Big44 said:

This isn't my work i just found modified versions of the code on github. look here hxxps://github.com/instagrambot/instabot (sorry can't post active links)

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Divincolarsi said:

Got this error, While trying to run the script.

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Ahmed\Desktop\instabot.py-master\opensourcebotsfuckyeah.py", line 12, in <module>
    from instabot import InstaBot
  File "C:\Users\Ahmed\Desktop\instabot.py-master\src\instabot.py", line 16, in <module>
    import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

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FOAM said:

OSX/Linux
Use $ sudo pip install requests if you have pip installed

On OSX you can also use sudo easy_install -U requests if you have easy_install installed.

Windows
Use > Path\easy_install.exe requests if you have a windows machine, where easy_install can be found in your Python*\Scripts folder, if it was installed. (Note Path\easy_install.exe is an example, mine is C:\Python32\Scripts\easy_install.exe)

If you don't have easy install and are running on a windows machine, you can get it here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#distribute

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Shibiru said:

So this Bot was totally unfollowing people i've been following for years, how do i fix that. not cool

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donjuanhitro said:

@dano2 look

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newdjpower said:

hope someone can help me . i`m using instabot.py on PythonAnywhere ,paid account , i`m runing 4 instagram accounts without proxy and is running fine .when i try to add more instagram acc and set up a proxy inside the bot i`m getting this error :
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/newdjpower/instabot.py-master4/example4.py", line 43, in <module> unfollow_whitelist=['example_user_1', 'example_user_2']) File "/home/newdjpower/instabot.py-master4/src/instabot.py", line 203, in __init__ self.login() File "/home/newdjpower/instabot.py-master4/src/instabot.py", line 258, in login r = self.s.get(self.url) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 487, in get return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 475, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 585, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 465, in send raise ProxyError(e, request=request)requests.exceptions.ProxyError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', error('Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden',)))

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