InstaBot

InstaBot is a Python library that provides some automation for simple tasks on Instagram like following accounts and sending DMs on Instagram using Selenium. Please note that this library is not associated with Instagram or Meta.

Installation

You can install the library from the GitHub repository or by using pip:

pip install InstaWebBot

Usage

IMPORTANT (version older than 0.3.0): The driver file for Selenium must be located in the current working directory of your project. You can download the driver here. Please provide the driver name if you are not using the recommended geckodriver.

Initialize the bot by passing in your Instagram username and password as parameters:

from InstaWebBot import InstaBot
bot = InstaBot('your_username', 'your_password')

# A bot login is required before any other action will be executed.
bot.login()

Here is an example with some optional arguments (using their default value if default exists):

from InstaWebBot import InstaBot

bot = InstaBot('your_username', 'your_password',
               driver="geckodriver",
               output=False,
               time=2.5)

To log in to Instagram with the given username and password use

bot.login()

Once you have created an instance of the InstaBot class, you can use its methods to automate some simple tasks on Instagram.

Functions

Search for a username by using

bot.search(query)

After that you can perform various actions on a user profile:

bot.follow()
bot.unfollow()
bot.send_dm(message)
bot.get_followers()
bot.get_picture(number)
bot.get_likes()
bot.get_liked_by()
bot.like_picture()
bot.write_comment(message)

It is also possible to get data from the profile once it has been searched with bot.search(query):

user_data = bot.get_data('instagram')
# user_data contains various counters as well as a link to the profile picture, homepage and bio
print(f"Follower count of @instagram: {user_data['followers']}")

This is a small example program to get 50 followers of a given profile (50 is the maximum amount, because Instagram limits the visibility of followers/following lists):

from InstaWebBot import InstaBot

bot = InstaBot('username', 'password')
bot.login()
bot.search('instagram')
followers = bot.get_followers()
for follower in followers:
    print(follower)
bot.close()

Future functionality:

• Get follower and following counter
• Get post counter
• Allow commenting on posts
• Send direct messages to user
• Like different images than just the first image
• Download images
• Update .get_data() function
• Improve general usability

LICENSE

InstaBot is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0.

Help & Contribution

If you find an error please feel free to open an issue here.