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You say that you need to replace your puppeteer launch code to make the bot work on Raspberry. Can you do that on the Desktop app? Maybe add a option on the app 'running on Raspberry'. Thanks

On some profile, after pressing the Follow button, it is not changed to "Following" immediately but changed to "Requested".

In this case the fact the Request was sent is not stored in the cache, but this line throw a log to the console: "Failed to follow user (button did not change state)"

const elementHandle2 = await findFollowUnfollowButton('Following');
      if (!elementHandle2) console.log('Failed to follow user (button did not change state)');

So it makes impossible to unfollow the user in the future, right?

What would be the ideal way to handle this case? (I'm not an instagram expert)

Error: No node found for selector: a[href="/accounts/login/?source=auth_switcher"]

Maybe need to add a sleep.

Anyone would be interested to review this PR #71
Leave a heart if you are interested

I just want to like photos of competitors' users, I don't want to follow and unloffow, I tried to leave the parameters with 0 but it gives an error.

remembering that I just want to give likes photos

Attached images

How to Unfollow non mutual from past x days upon following them?

The bot could be much more effective if it ignored excludedUsers from search and stopped visiting them repeatedly - as this unnecessary traffic increases the risk of "Too Many Requests".

This could be implemented by:

1. Storing excludeUsers, incl. private and accounts with wrong follow/following ratio in a json file.
2. Filtering those users out in the "followUserFollowers"-function.

What do you think about this proposed enhancement?

Hello I have got an issue with one of my Instagram account. At the start of the bot I get this error:

Failed to follow user followers, continuing Error: Evaluation failed: TypeError: Cannot read property 'user' of undefined

I think the error is coming from this line

return page.evaluate(() => window._sharedData.entry_data.ProfilePage[0].graphql.user)

Will return

{ ProfilePage: [ {} ] }

instead of

  ProfilePage: [
    {
      logging_page_id: '.................',
      show_suggested_profiles: false,
      show_follow_dialog: false,
      graphql: [Object],
      toast_content_on_load: null
    }
  ]

Do you have any idee how can I fix this ?

Thank's for your amazing work

I wonder if it's possible to get a list of accounts that are active/have interacted with you often, and you can have an option to not unfollow them in the "Unfollow auto-followed users" section. i.e. those who have sent you a direct message or replied to a story or liked several posts.

I know there's an "excludeUsers" section you can manually fill it, but if your following grows and you want to auto-unfollow even those who follow you back after a while, but keep certain users who are really interacting with you, it'll be useful if the bot can identify them for you. But I don't know if there's any way to implement that.

I'm getting the following error when trying to execute any action on a particular user (e.g. follow their followers):

Failed to follow user followers, continuing Error: Evaluation failed: TypeError: Cannot read property 'user' of undefined
    at __puppeteer_evaluation_script__:1:61

Do you have an idea of what may cause this error and how to fix it?

Would be good to be able to follow by hashtags what do you think ?

I was looking for an API like this, which is still maintained I guess. Great work by the developers. I stumbled upon some ideas to improve this:
1.) if I could be able to install this on a server (a method like this) and let it run for a long period + sending an error notification on email if something went wrong.

2.) (Maybe better approach OR already in use which I'm unaware of) Using session cookies to login (similar to this service) to avoid bot detection.

I'm completely new to node.js but gonna try making the first option work. I will appreciate it if someone could help with this.

during unfollowing it stucks on 429

Hi,

For some reason my bot is not unfollowing as it should. Could you help me understandig three things?

1. Does the bot follows or unfollows first when it start? (SimpleInstaBot unfollows first)
2. How do I set the variable dontUnfollowUntilTimeElapsed? I don't seem to understand those multiplications
3. Is there any difference between this and SimpleInstaBot, in terms of the pupeteer implementation?

Could you please add a feature to search the searchbar?

I will pay

See discussions here:

• mifi/SimpleInstaBot#1
• ohld/igbot#1194

Hello , tried to make it work on ubuntu server but don't want to work , issue with chrome .

I've added a new method to your tool which instead of usernames, gets an array of post IDs and follows all the users who've liked that post (meaning they actually love that post and had interactions). This seems to be very effective in my experience. Do you mind if I send an MR?

Hi ! I try to use your bot but it not works with private profile. The bot is not able to find the follow button when the user is private... Do you know why ?
Its weird because the button have the same text value "Follow"

Thanks

Presumably, instagram already has a signal that detects when interactions with the platform are coming from puppeteer.

It would be advantageous to introduce randomization to timed events. Right now all of these events trigger and the same interval. It would be easy for someone at instagram and observe that the interactions from a given account are interacting with the platform on the same interval over time.

Adding a few degrees of freedom should be enough to trick any easy detection on intervals.

Hi,

I noticed that whenever instauto gets the Failed to follow user (button did not change state) error it continues to:

1. Like photos of that user which then results to an error, and
2. The user gets appended to followed.json although it was not successfully followed.

Also, I think it would be more appropriate for the bot to sleep because I think the Failed to follow user (button did not change state) is caused by stricter bot detection logic. Just a suggestion though.

Thanks!

Please put in an option to put user list of usernames to follow unfollow.
I am using simpleinstabot and this function would really help there !

Thank you,

Failed to follow user (button did not change state)

Works on my local linux computer but I get this error on my remote linux server

LOCAL LINUX COMPUTER
Distributor ID: Kali
Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release: 2019.4
Codename: kali-rolling

REMOTE LINUX SERVER (GOOGLE CLOUD)
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.11 (stretch)
Release: 9.11
Codename: stretch

Hi @mifi looks like when you log in to Instagram sometimes switch back language to the current location and isLoggedIn function return false even when you are logged in because the text "Home" is diff in other languages...

const isLoggedIn = async () => (await page.$x('//*[@aria-label="Home"]')).length === 1;

To pass that checking you need to change the language manually after login at the bottom of the page

Can we fetch users list ==> current_follow_requests
i.e
https://www.instagram.com/accounts/access_tool/current_follow_requests

When logging in there starts to pop up a dialog that needs two factor verification by email.
Note that when this process is completed and the session cookies are saved, this message does not appear anymore.
If this becomes a bigger problem then maybe we could implement an IMAP/Gmail mail scanner that automatically goes into the inbox and finds this code.

I get this error message occasionally:

Failed to process follower XXXXXXXX Error: Follow button not found
    at followCurrentUser (/home/YYYY/bin/instauto-master/node_modules/instauto/index.js:216:31)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)

This is for users that I already follow, so it makes sense the follow button isn't found. Probably instauto just shouldn't be visiting them if I already follow them.

Hello, is it possible to pass a proxy to the bot?

Hello , I execute the scrpit it launches well, enter the nickname and the password then suddenly the window closes.
thanks.

TypeError: Cannot read property 'click' of undefined at module.exports (F:\document\NODE\instauto\node_modules\instauto\index.js:511:23) at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5) at async F:\document\NODE\instauto\example.js:51:22 Closing browser

Hey guys,

My idea would be that to increase the chances of a profile getting followers back there could be an option to follow the people who interacted with a profile, so it could be done through likes and comments.

An example: Follow all the people who liked and commented on the last post on @facebook

I tried the OSX Desktopversion, which gives me the following error:

WARNING: Login has not succeeded. This could be because of an incorrect username/password, or a "suspicious login attempt"-message. You need to manually complete the process.

Even though the login has succeeded

has been requested

hey ,
when i try to run my instagram bot , It shows me this error
what should i do ?

File "example.py", line 50, in
'follow', 'follower', 'gain', '.id', 'id', 'bags'],)
File "C:\Users\DAVID-pc\Desktop\instabot.py-38c46365407781e6be745dec83a4781ba0763cdb\src\instabot.py", line 234, in init
self.login()
File "C:\Users\DAVID-pc\Desktop\instabot.py-38c46365407781e6be745dec83a4781ba0763cdb\src\instabot.py", line 309, in login
self.user_id = ui.get_user_id_by_login(self.user_login)
File "C:\Users\DAVID-pc\Desktop\instabot.py-38c46365407781e6be745dec83a4781ba0763cdb\src\userinfo.py", line 41, in get_user_id_by_login
all_data = json.loads(info.text)
File "C:\Users\DAVID-pc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\json_init.py", line 354, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Users\DAVID-pc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\json\decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Users\DAVID-pc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\json\decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Thanks for this amazing script, this is a great project and I'm happy this continues to be maintained!
I have a feature suggestion: a good way of growing an account and create real engagement is to follow following users from a user, not followers. Could it be included in a future release?
It looks like it would be a quick method to add to the project but I might not be good enough to create a PR.

What does this mean? No vps? must use real ip?

Good day, thank you for this script, I'm not fluent in JavaScript script.
How can I use theMaxfollowperday and maxfollowperhour in index.js.
Also how can I loop example.js. thank you

npm install instauto --> not installed
what is my fault?

(Mac Osx Mojave)
Installed the dependencies, added the example.js based on your example, filled out my users, however when I tried to execute I got this error:

Macs-MacBook-Pro:instafollow mysecretuser$ node example.js 
Failed to load cookies
Failed to load followed db
Failed to load unfollowed db
Error: No node found for selector: a[href="/accounts/login/"]
    at assert (/Users/mysecretuser/Work/projects/digitalNomad/instafollow/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/helper.js:270:11)
    at DOMWorld.click (/Users/mysecretuser/Work/projects/digitalNomad/instafollow/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/DOMWorld.js:366:5)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
  -- ASYNC --
    at Frame.<anonymous> (/Users/mysecretuser/Work/projects/digitalNomad/instafollow/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/helper.js:111:15)
    at Page.click (/Users/mysecretuser/Work/projects/digitalNomad/instafollow/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Page.js:1031:29)
    at module.exports (/Users/mysecretuser/Work/projects/digitalNomad/instafollow/node_modules/instauto/index.js:464:16)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
Closing browser

'use strict';

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer'); // eslint-disable-line import/no-extraneous-dependencies

const Instauto = require('instauto'); // eslint-disable-line import/no-unresolved

const options = {
cookiesPath: './cookies.json',

username: 'test',
password: 'test',

// Global limit that prevents follow or unfollows (total) to exceed this number over a sliding window of one hour:
maxFollowsPerHour: 20,
// Global limit that prevents follow or unfollows (total) to exceed this number over a sliding window of one day:
maxFollowsPerDay: 150,
// (NOTE setting the above parameters too high will cause temp ban/throttle)

maxLikesPerDay: 50,

// Don't follow users that have a followers / following ratio less than this:
followUserRatioMin: 0.2,
// Don't follow users that have a followers / following ratio higher than this:
followUserRatioMax: 4.0,
// Don't follow users who have more followers than this:
followUserMaxFollowers: null,
// Don't follow users who have more people following them than this:
followUserMaxFollowing: null,
// Don't follow users who have less followers than this:
followUserMinFollowers: null,
// Don't follow users who have more people following them than this:
followUserMinFollowing: null,

dontUnfollowUntilTimeElapsed: 0,

// Usernames that we should not touch, e.g. your friends and actual followings
excludeUsers: [],

// If true, will not do any actions (defaults to true)
dryRun: false,
};

(async () => {
let browser;

try {
browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false });

// Create a database where state will be loaded/saved to
const instautoDb = await Instauto.JSONDB({
  // Will store a list of all users that have been followed before, to prevent future re-following.
  followedDbPath: './followed.json',
  // Will store all unfollowed users here
  unfollowedDbPath: './unfollowed.json',
  // Will store all likes here
  likedPhotosDbPath: './liked-photos.json',
});

const instauto = await Instauto(instautoDb, browser, options);

// List of usernames that we should follow the followers of, can be celebrities etc.

// const usersToFollowFollowersOf = [''];

// Now go through each of these and follow a certain amount of their followers

// await instauto.followUsersFollowers({ usersToFollowFollowersOf, skipPrivate: true, enableLikeImages: true });

await instauto.sleep(10 * 60 * 1000);

// This is used to unfollow people - auto-followed AND manually followed -
// who are not following us back, after some time has passed
// (config parameter dontUnfollowUntilTimeElapsed)
await instauto.unfollowNonMutualFollowers();

await instauto.sleep(10 * 60 * 1000);

// Unfollow auto-followed users (regardless of whether they are following us)
// after a certain amount of days

// await instauto.unfollowOldFollowed({ ageInDays: 60 });

console.log('Done running');

await instauto.sleep(30000);

} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
} finally {
console.log('Closing browser');
if (browser) await browser.close();
}
})();

Is it possible to run multiple instances? I tried , but it kept opening the same window

Hi, the bot is awesome and I run it using forever

but I noticed the bot doesn't exit when lost connection to Chromium. For example when macbook goes sleep.

and it constantly writing the same error:

Failed to unfollow, continuing with next Error: Protocol error (Page.navigate): Session closed. Most likely the page has been closed.

It should exit or try to restart chromium

Have run code but i see this error in terminal:
Failed to process follower 'user' Error: Follow button not found

Similar to #19, I get a bunch of:
Failed to follow user followers, continuing Error: Protocol error (Page.navigate): Session closed. Most likely the page has been closed.
from the bot after a while.
It's running headless.
I think it should catch that issue and restart a session or exit so pm2 can take it back up.

first of all a big thumbs up to this repository. It has been very helpful in automating our instagram feeds and pages however i'm experiencing this error every time i start the bot.

undefined is not iterable (cannot read property Symbol(Symbol.iterator))
at shuffleArray (/Users/eggseed-Naaman/Desktop/eggseedapp/backend/api/automation-bot/node_modules/instauto/index.js:11:17)
at Object.followUsersFollowers (/Users/eggseed-Naaman/Desktop/eggseedapp/backend/api/automation-bot/node_modules/instauto/index.js:567:44)
at /Users/eggseed-Naaman/Desktop/eggseedapp/backend/api/automation-bot/src/bot.js:52:24

Has anyone faced this problem and if so what can be done to solve it.

i checked the shuffleArray function and it returns the array but for some reason it returns undefined.

Opened issue for #55

Hello, I was using this library and I think I found a small bug: maxFollowsPerHour and maxFollowsPerDay where not being checked.

After digging a little I discovered that the function throttle() was being called only at the begging of the function followUserFollowers() L477. But if you look a little further there is a for L504 where the "user following thing" is done. So I added another call to throttle() at the end of the loop where the condition calls followCurrentUser(follower). That way the max limits are checked every time after a new user is followed.
Hope I was clear.

You need to make changes to index.js
const isLoggedIn = async () => (await page.$x('//nav')).length === 2; - old
const isLoggedIn = async () => (await page.$x('//nav')).length === 1; - new

I believe this feature of being able to see the log time can help in debugging and other ways.

Failed to follow user's images solwinkler_ Error: Evaluation failed: Error: Like button section not found
at likeCurrentUserImagesPageCode (puppeteer_evaluation_script:38:27)
at ExecutionContext._evaluateInternal (/opt/bitnami/projects/instauto/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/Execut
ionContext.js:217:19)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
at async ExecutionContext.evaluate (/opt/bitnami/projects/instauto/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/Execution
Context.js:106:16)
at async likeCurrentUserImages (/opt/bitnami/projects/instauto/node_modules/instauto/index.js:439:5)
at async followUserFollowers (/opt/bitnami/projects/instauto/node_modules/instauto/index.js:509:15)
at async Object.followUsersFollowers (/opt/bitnami/projects/instauto/node_modules/instauto/index.js:538:9)
at async /opt/bitnami/projects/instauto/example.js:65:5

and maybe screenshot?

This could tremendously help debugging