SheGram (Instagram Fake Account Detection)

SheGram (She = Sherlock + Gram = Instagram) is a powerful tool developed in python which has 4 modes of use. The main one is the detection of fake profiles on Instagram, by analyzing the profile photo we can compare it with Google and check if it has been extracted from any other social network, such as Pinterest. The other main attraction is that it has a database with various fake accounts, as well as their ID in case they change their name.

Installation

Clone the repository and navigate to the folder.

git clone https://github.com/titodelas/Shegram_Instagram_Detection.git
cd Shegram_Instagram_Detection

Use the package manager pip to install the requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run SheGram (It has and IDLE so don't care about ARGS)

python3 shygram.py

Usage

Navigate into the SheGram folder, and run the file

cd Shegram_Instagram_Detection
python shegram.py

How it works ?

First, Extract the Photo of a selected account with Instaloader

bot = instaloader.Instaloader()
path = os.getcwd() # Obtain the actual directory path
username = input("Instert Instagram account: @")
print(bot.download_profile(username,  profile_pic_only=True))

Once we have the profile picture, we analyze it with the Google Search By Image tool via Python Request

filePath  =  f'{path}/{username}/{username}.jpg' # Actual Path of the File
searchUrl  =  'http://www.google.hr/searchbyimage/upload'
multipart  =  {'encoded_image':  (filePath,  open(filePath,  'rb')),  'image_content':  ''}
response  =  requests.post(searchUrl,  files=multipart,  allow_redirects=False)
fetchUrl  =  response.headers['Location']
webbrowser.open(fetchUrl)

TO DO

Download Profile Photo of the account
Analyze via Google Image search
Make a Database with the fake accounts
Build a Search tool to find accounts in the Database
Show the results in console + webbrowser
Autodetect if is a fake account or not

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

GNU