Google Chrome script that allows user to mass unfollow instagram users on user's profile

unfollow-everyone-instagram.js

// Run GOOGLE CHROME - WORKING AS OF MARCH 23 2025
// Please @ me in the comments if this stops working, I will try to get it working again within the month

// INSTRUCTIONS
// 1. Open Instagram in Chrome
// 2. Click on "FOLLOWING" on your Instagram profile
// 3. Open developer tools by right clicking on the page and clicking "INSPECT"
// 4. Copy the code below and paste in the developer tools console and press enter to run
// 5. Script will not run if tab is navigated away from, minimized of unfocused (It is recommended to open a new chrome window or push tab to the side and let script run in background)

const unfollowEveryone = (async () => {
  // Modify these variables to your liking
  // UNFOLLOW_LIMIT is the number of users to unfollow (this is set to 1000)
  const UNFOLLOW_LIMIT = 1000;

  const BREAK_DURATION = 5 * 60 * 1000; // 5 minutes break

  const TOTAL_DURATION = 10 * 60 * 1000; // 10 minutes duration - Timeout after 10 minutes

  const delay = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
  // Find target button
  const findButtonByText = (text) =>
    Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("button")).find(
      (button) => button.innerText === text
    );

  console.log("Start unfollowing script...");

  let startTime = new Date().getTime();
  // Track the number of unfollows
  let unfollowCount = 0;

  while (new Date().getTime() - startTime < TOTAL_DURATION) {
    for (let i = 0; i < UNFOLLOW_LIMIT; i++) {
      // UNFOLLOW_INTERVAL is the interval between unfollows
      // Increase UNFOLLOW_INTERVAL if you are getting rate limited
      // Set this to 0 unfollow as quickly as possible - not recommended
      // Random unfollow interval for each follow to avoid rate limiting minimum 5 seconds
      // This gets reset to a random number every loop
      const UNFOLLOW_INTERVAL = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10 + 1) * 5000;

      const followingButton = findButtonByText("Following");
      if (!followingButton) {
        console.log("No more users to unfollow or unable to find button.");
        break;
      }
      followingButton.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
      await followingButton.click();
      await delay(100); // Short delay to ensure button is clicked
      const confirmUnfollowButton = findButtonByText("Unfollow");
      if (confirmUnfollowButton) {
        await confirmUnfollowButton.click(); // Wait for the unfollow to complete
        unfollowCount++;
        console.log(`Unfollowed #${unfollowCount}`);
      } else {
        console.log("No unfollow confirmation button found.");
      }

      console.log(`Wait ${UNFOLLOW_INTERVAL} milliseconds`);
      await delay(UNFOLLOW_INTERVAL);
    }

    console.log(`Taking a break for ${BREAK_DURATION / 1000 / 60} minutes...`);
    await delay(BREAK_DURATION); // Take a break to avoid rate limiting
    startTime = new Date().getTime(); // Reset start time for the next cycle
  }

  console.log("Unfollow script complete!");
})();

@rashadraz we could discuss privately if you need the script modified for this purpose tho ..

@chaodonghu please look into the unfollow interval .. it generates upto a 45 second delay .. i will look to modify the script on my end
& also this is better ..

const INTERVAL_SECONDS = Math.round(UNFOLLOW_INTERVAL / 1000);
console.log(`Wait ${INTERVAL_SECONDS} seconds`);

i was thinking .. what about a code that randomly picks between 5000ms - 10000ms for the interval

UPDATE: here's the code . you can put the numbers in variables ..

const UNFOLLOW_INTERVAL = Math.floor(Math.random() * (10000 - 5000 + 1) + 5000);