Follow and unfollow instagram script - ApplyBoard

instagram-follow-unfollow.js

// -------------------
// To mass follow
// -------------------
// 1. Open instagram page (eg. https://www.instagram.com/visatoronto/) utilizing google chrome
// 2. Click 'xxx followers' on instagram page, this will open up a modal containing user's followers
// 3. Open google chrome developer tools by either (1) right clicking on the screen and clicking 'inspect' 
//    OR (2) Command + Option + J
// 4. Click on the 'console' method in dev tools

// 5. First paste the following code to instantiate jquery and press enter
let script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute('src', '//code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js');
script.addEventListener('load', function() {
  let script = document.createElement('script');
  document.body.appendChild(script);
}, false);
document.body.appendChild(script);

// 6. Then paste this into the console to allow mass following and press enter
window.setInterval(function() {
  // Set counter to follow
  var x = 0;
  $("button:contains('Follow')").each(function() {
    // Limit to only follow 12 people every interval
    if (x == 12) {
      return false;
    }
    // Filter out following and follow buttons
    if ($(this).text() != 'Follow') {
      return;
    }

    // // Only click on follow buttons
    $(this).trigger("click");
    // Add to the counter
    x++;
    // Scroll down
    $('.j6cq2').scrollTop($('.j6cq2')[0].scrollHeight);
  })
}, 1000 * 60 * 15); // Call every 15 minutes

// -------------------
// To mass unfollow
// -------------------
// 1. Open instagram page (eg. https://www.instagram.com/visatoronto/) utilizing google chrome
// 2. Click 'xxx following' on instagram page, this will open up a modal containing all the user's the user is following
// 3. Open google chrome developer tools by either (1) right clicking on the screen and clicking 'inspect' 
//    OR (2) Command + Option + J
// 4. Click on the 'console' method in dev tools

// 5. Paste the following code to instantiate jquery and press enter
let script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute('src', '//code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js');
script.addEventListener('load', function() {
  let script = document.createElement('script');
  document.body.appendChild(script);
}, false);
document.body.appendChild(script);

// 6. Paste this into the console to allow mass unfollowing and press enter
window.setInterval(function() {
  // Start counter to follow
  var x = 0;
  $("button:contains('Following')").each(function() {
    // Limit to only unfollow 12 people every interval
    if (x == 12) {
      return false;
    }

    // // Only click on following buttons
    $(this).trigger("click");
    // Add to the counter
    x++;
    // Scroll down
    $('.j6cq2').scrollTop($('.j6cq2')[0].scrollHeight);
  })
}, 1000 * 60 * 15); // Call every 15 minutes

haha never mind. How to do that(to set the limit)?. And one other thing. I'm trying to write a selenium based(not decided yet) script to do the same job. From your experience with IG Technology and bot detection. Anything I should be aware of while building the script?

haha never mind. How to do that(to set the limit)?. And one other thing. I'm trying to write a selenium based(not decided yet) script to do the same job. From your experience with IG Technology and bot detection. Anything I should be aware of while building the script?

On line 37 (https://gist.github.com/chaodonghu/c25c7ee3e3eb85c0a0de051892e596a4#file-follow-instagram-js-L37) you can change the multiple of the randomTimeout.

eg. const randomTimeout = () => (Math.floor((Math.random() * 10) + 1) * 1000) + 20000 -> const randomTimeout = () => (Math.floor((Math.random() * 10) + 1) * 1000) + 40000

Essentially changing the follow rate from 20-29s to 40-49s. The bot detection is kind of hard to avoid to be honest from what i've read it's probably ~100 followers/hour that it's capped at. If you really wanted to just have the tab open and run it with a safe 60-69 second rate.

For selenium based it should be the same thing, just have it click through and set the rate accordingly.

Thanks a lot Chao. This is really helpful :)

Could you whitelist people that are following you back or is it one or the other only?