Auto like my gf Instagram pics

Bot to automatically like your friend's Instagram post and notify you on your Slack channel.

Practical use cases

You are like me. You don't have time to check social media and you want to give attention to someone so that she notices you.
You are in a relationship. Your girlfriend is constantly nagging you for not being the 'first-one' to like her Instagram pics.

How it works ?

This script runs Instagram API every 15mins (cronjob) and checks for any new Instagram post for a paticular user_id. If a new a post is found it likes the post and sends a notification to your configured Slack channel using Slack Webhooks.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/gulzar1996/auto-like-my-gf-insta-pic
npm install
create a .env file (you must set accessToken, user_id (Target user id) from Instagram Developer API and slack_url from Slack Webhooks ) as shown. This would assure that your keys are secured and index.js file is untouched.
npm start (run the app)

Like all the recent instagram post (test)

 GET http://localhost:3000/run

Deploy to Heroku

cd auto-like-my-gf-insta-pic
heroku login
heroku create (add heroku to project)
git push heroku master (deploy to heroku)
heroku ps:scale worker=1 (start dyno worker)

Heroku will generate a url for you

  http://<HEROKU_URL>.herokuapp.com/run

Setting up Cron Job

create an account cron-job.org
create a cronjob
paste the url http://<HEROKU_URL>.herokuapp.com/run in address
schedule every 15 mins

Using node-cron (local cron)

npm start (run the app)
node cron.js & create a node-cron that sends GET to the app every 15 min
ps to list background processes
kill <process id> to stop the node-cron

Thanks

Inspired from https://github.com/cyandterry/Like-My-GF. Code written in JS from scratch.

jonbonraki/auto-like-my-gf-insta-pic