/instaReposter

A bot that grabs the hottest images from reddit and reposts them to instagram

Primary LanguagePython

instaReposter

Dead, Instagram has closed the endpoint for uploading images to the public so this won't work.

Support for Linux and Windows

A bot that grabs the hottest images from reddit (default is r/memes) and reposts them to instagram (in a random 30-60min interval)

Pre-Requesites:

  • An Instagram account
  • A Reddit account with an app created
  • Python 3

Instructions:

1. Use Pip to install the required packages

Recommended:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Manual:

PRAW (Reddit API): pip install praw

InstagramAPI (Instagram API): pip install InstagramAPI

pillow (PIL) pip install pillow

2. Login

  • In instaLogin.txt change Username to your Instagram username and Password to your Instagram password
  • In picGrab.py change clID to your app client ID, clSE to your client Secret, change user to your Reddit username and password to your Reddit password

3. Run instaReposter.py

  • Navigate to the directory in the terminal run: python instaReposter.py