This code is no longer maintained. Bots are no longer safe, you could easily get banned.

Big thanks to everyone who got involved in this project, namely @erleiuat.

InstaBot 1.3.0

InstaBot 1.3.0

Automate your Instagram activity with InstaBot - a customisable bot that likes, follows and comments

InstaBot is a Python-based automated Instagram bot made for Social Media Marketing Campaigns in order to reach the desired audience while saving time and money.

All you need is your username and password and other parameters - no API signup is needed.

Requirements

Python 2.7 and a server (a Raspberry Pi works great). See installation bellow to install libraries.

In a nutshell

InstaBot will

[x] Like posts of users you want to reach
[x] Comment on these posts
[x] Follow users you want to reach
[x] Unfollow users who don't follow you back within x hours
[x] Like posts in your news feed - only those you want to
[x] Build a profile object with all your followers and users you follow

Instabot runs in two modes

From XX:XX to YY:YY
All day (24/7)

The bot works on 24-hour military time, so you should input 09:00 to have it start at 9am.

How to install

Download and install Python on your computer (a Raspberry Pi will have it pre-installed)
Install dependencies running pip install -r requirements.txt.
Install lxml
Git clone this repo or download as a ZIP and extract
Add your input (see bellow)
Run python run.py

Your input

Open the config file and insert your credentials and preferences:

{
	"username": "username",
	"password": "password",
	"timezone": 0,
	"tags": "input/tags.csv",
	"tags_to_avoid": "input/tags_to_avoid.csv",
	"friends": "input/friends.csv",
	"like_news_feed": true,
	"likes_in_day": 500,
	"media_max_likes": 50,
	"media_min_likes": 0,
	"follow_in_day": 50,
	"unfollow": true,
	"follow_time_hours": 6,
	"comments_in_day": 0,
	"comments_list": [["Cool", "Sweet", "Awesome", "Great"],
                  ["😄", "🙌", "👍", "👌", "😊"], 
                  [".", "!", "!!", "!!!"]],
	"bot_start_at": "07:00",
	"bot_stop_at": "23:00"
}

Set likes

Tell Instabot how many posts you want to like per day. The maximum you will get to do before you get banned is 1000, but the default is set at 500 to keep it safe, especially if you're doing a daytime run (7am to 11pm). Instabot will take random time breaks between likes, to make it look more like a real person and not an automated bot.

"likes_in_day": 500

Set Instabot to like your friends posts so you don't have to. Only the friends usernames you included in the friends list will have their posts liked.

"friends": "input/friends.csv"
"like_news_feed": true

You can tell Instabot not to like posts with less than a minimum like number or more than a maximum like number. This property is useful because you will get more feedback from posts with a lower number of likes.

"media_max_likes": 50
"media_min_likes": 0

Give Instabot a list of hashtags to look for posts to like. I recommend you read this article for tips on using hashtags. You can either put the tags into input/tags.csv, as it is currently the case in the default values:

"tags": "input/tags.csv"

Or you can insert the tags straight into the config file like this:

"tags": ['tag1', 'tag2']

You can do the same with your friends list: either leave it as the default and include your friends' usernames in the friends.csv file or insert the usernames straight into the config file.

"friends": "input/friends.csv"

And finally, negative keywords are very important. These will help you avoid liking posts you don't want to like. These can be inserted the same way as the tags. The default is for them to be in a file.

"tags_to_avoid": "input/tags_to_avoid.csv"

Set comments

Instabot will comment randomly on posts that it liked. The comments are generated through a list of lists that gets shuffled to make a comment. You can add extra lists to increase the comment, or just reduce it to a single list of list e.g. [['I just want this comment']].

"comments_in_day": 0
"comments_list": [["Cool", "Sweet", "Awesome", "Great"],
                  ["😄", "🙌", "👍", "👌", "😊"], 
                  [".", "!", "!!", "!!!"]]

Follow and unfollow

Follow users of posts you liked:

"follow

InstaBot

Install / Use

README