This Instagram bot uses Selenium chromedriver to interact with webelements from your browser. It crawls through user posts or users following a certain account and can follow, like, and comment on posts that come up. Note that this bot has no malicious intent. Use is at your own risk and be aware of Instagram's bot and automation guidelines.
Before attempting to run the bot, make sure that you have the necessary libraries installed.
pip install selenium
Next make sure that you have chromedriver.exe downloaded and set the path to this executable in the variable CHROMEDRIVER_PATH. You can find compatible chromedriver versions for your Google chrome application here.
This mode works by searching all posts containing the hashtag stored in the variable HASHTAG and liking each post up to the number specified. Optionally, this mode can be used with a comment mode to drop in a random comment from a user-specified list.
Only allowing likes:
python bot.py -l LIKE
Allowing likes and comments:
python bot.py -l LIKE -c COMMENT
This mode works by going to the Instagram page of the user stored in the variable TARGET_ACCOUNT_NAME and following a specified number of accounts who also follow this user. By passing in a command argument like so you will enable the follow mode.
python bot.py -f FOLLOW
Use the optional command line argument --debug DEBUG to print webdriver page source code to help with debugging in the case that say an XPath becomes invalid. An example of this is found below:
python bot.py -l LIKE --debug DEBUG
If the program breaks while trying to navigate Instagram, then most likely Instagram has updated their website and the selection of web elements from DOM needs to be changed. Please email me at turgeonchris3@gmail.com if you would like me to take a look and patch the bug.