/cybogram

🤖 A Python- and Selenium-based Instagram bot

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🤖 Cybogram - a Python- and Selenium-based Instagram bot

Overview & Flow

This bot:

  1. Opens an automated browser window.
  2. Logs in to a predetermined Instagram account (chosen when running the bot) using a username and password.
  3. Finds and loads random posts it finds via a predetermined list of hashtags.
  4. Likes the chosen post (up to a predefined likes-per-run limit).
  5. Comments on the chosen post (up to a predefined comments-per-run limit). The comments are randomly selected from a predefined comment list.
  6. While there are still comments or likes to be placed, goes back to step 3.

Install the bot

  1. Download and extract the Firefox Webdriver executable geckodriver.exe into /bin/browser_drivers (You may have to create these directories for yourself). You can download the driver executable from Mozilla's official repo here.
  2. The required Python packages are listed in the environment.yml file. If you use Anaconda, you can create a new Anaconda environment by typing: 
    conda env create -f environment.yml
  3. Rename /config/demo_user_config.yaml to /config/user_config.yaml (i.e. remove the "demo_" part)
  4. Rename the top-level account names in /config/user_config.yaml to ones you will remember easily (it is recommended to set them to your Instagram's username).
  5. Fill in your accounts login credentials as well as the desired hashtags and comments for the bot to use.
  6. You're all set.

Run the bot

To run the bot:

  1. From the project's root folder, type (On Linux or macOS): 
    python3 ./run.py myaccount
    Or on Windows: 
     python3 .\run.py myaccount
    Where myaccount should be replaced by your account name, as listed in the top-level account names in /config/user_config.yaml.