An Instagram Bot developed in Python with Selenium which uses the follow back principle to bring you followers gradually.

This bot is made to build an audience. It's not a bot that will directly bring you thousands of followers but maybe dozens of them every days. The principle is simple, the bot will search, thanks to a list of defined tags, for random posts on Instagram. For each post, the bot will like, comment and follow the author. As with Twitter, many users often follow the people who follow them. This bot therefore works on the « follow back » principle.

To be able to run this little bot, you’ll need to have:

• Python
• Selenium
• Chromedriver
• Geckodriver
• Google Chrome (English version) or Mozilla Firefox

After simply downloading this repository, open start.py , you’ll have to change some lines.

chromedriver_path = '/Users/josephpereniguez/Projects/InstaBot/chromedriver'

If you have correctly downloaded Chromedriver, change the path to your chromedriver file.

username.send_keys('your_username')
...
password.send_keys('your_password')

These two lines are designed to authenticate you on Instagram. Basically change your_username and your_password to your Instagram credentials.

hashtag_list = ['trip', 'dronephotography', 'traveler']

This is the hashtags your bot will reach to find random posts and persons to comment / like / follow. Change this line with your custom tags, here I’m using trip, dronephotography and traveler tags.

Once the configuration is complete, it's time to run this bot. Simply run the command line below in a terminal:

$> python start.py