Since the instagram_scraper dependency is no longer being developed, this repository will be archived.
It's a tool that fetches "following" and "followers" and then finds and keeps track of the usernames of the accounts that are not following you back and the new unfollowers.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Launch instracker.py (ie. python3 instracker.py -u USERNAME), then login with your credentials to find / track new unfollowers.
Note that -u USERNAME is required. If you want to specify a different target account, you can pass -t TARGET in addition to your username.
The script will generate a folder in your $HOME directory (unless you specify another path with -o OUTPUT) that contains the raw and cleaned lists as well as not_following_back.txt and new_unfollowers.txt.
Usage:
instracker.py [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD | --password-file PASSWORD_FILE] [-t TARGET] [--save-cookie] [-q] [-o OUTPUT] [-kr] [-kc]
| Short | Argument | Info |
|---|---|---|
-h |
--help |
show this help message and exit |
-u USERNAME |
--username USERNAME |
Your username |
-p PASSWORD |
--password PASSWORD |
Your password |
| / | --password-file /PATH/TO/FILE |
Read the password from a file |
-t TARGET |
--target TARGET |
Username of the account to analyze |
| / | --save-cookie |
Save a session cookie |
-q |
--quiet |
Disable verbosity |
-o OUTPUT |
--output OUTPUT |
Specify output directory |
-kr |
--keep-raw |
Keep raw files |
-kc |
--keep-clean |
Keep clean files |
This script fetches up to 10000 followers (and up to 10000 following), 250 at a time with a random delay between each request. These limits can be edited and the delay can be removed, but beware that, as indicated upstream, too many requests within a short period of time will result in a 429 error.
Contributions are welcome, feel free to submit issues and/or pull requests.
- Allow authentication with 2FA enabled (see known issues).
- Associate usernames with user IDs for better filtering.
- Figure out how to use the cookie (if saved).
- Login with 2FA enabled doesn't seem to be working, there are several open issues upstream. The only way for now seems to be to temporarily disable 2FA on your Instagram account. Alternatively, if you don't want to disable 2FA on your account, you could create another account that you will use for login, and target your actual account with the following command (note that in order for this to work, your main account must be set to 'Public'):
python3 instracker.py -u new_account -t main_account
Otherwise you can try switching two_step_verificator=False to True.
This tool uses instagram_scraper to fetch the lists of followers and following.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007
"Instracker: Instagram unfollowers finder/tracker" - Find and keep track of who unfollows you on Instagram.
Copyright (C) 2022 Andrea Varesio https://www.andreavaresio.com/.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
