An Instagram bot that automates commenting, liking and following on Instagram. Named after the Golden Maidens crafted by Hephaestus
You must have Mozilla Firefox preinstalled. You can find out how here, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-download-and-install-firefox-windows
Set the path to the Firefox executable firefox.exe
as a path variable on windows, which is explained here, https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm
Check if PATH
command on CMD or which firefox
command on bash contains the path of your firefox.exe
executable
run .\setup.sh
command on CMD in the src
folder to install all neccesary dependencies
Instapy might have an issue with accessing instagram because of there being no cookies found. For this a simple fix is to add the line:
browser.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/button[1]").click()
in login_util.py:269
in your instapy
module:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages\instapy
after the if cookie_loaded:
statement
1 - In main.py
enter your instagram credentials in place of the userName
and passWord
variables.
2 - Configure the file and set the desired comments, delays and volume of posts targeted in main.py
3 - Run the program by entering python main.py
plus your desired tags targeted, for example python main.py vase minimalism
would target the hashtags "vase" and "minimalism"
If you have any issues or have any questions, please raise an issue on Github