This bot was written in a bit of a hurry, because I just wanted to make a UI for instauto. Therefore there are a few things that are a bit hacky which causes some limitations:

• Refactor the database so it can handle concurrency. Currently just a json file read/write #44
• Refactor instauto so it supports stopping the bot (so we don't have to kill the app when stopping)

Hi there,
I was thinking, if there is an unfollow mode possible? I actually want to unfollow all of the users, that the bot started to follow. Setting the maxfollowperday to zero is an "invalid parameter".

Hi ! I've been using Simple and Terminal and I have the same two different issues in both.

First one issue, MaxFollowsPerHour doesn't work because the bot is working whole the time. For ex if I put MaxFollowsPerHour=10 the bot follow infinite number of accounts in one hour and I got 429 error.

Second one issue,
When I select a number for ex:
MaxFollowsPerHour=10
MaxFollowsPerDay=10
and the followsDB is clean or it has Less of that number into (10) the bot continuos working and following infinite account (the same first one issue) BUT if the followDB has More of that number, there it working fine and I got Reached maximum...etc.

That is the good behavior or I'm doing anything wrong?

Thanks and good bless from Argentina at this catastrophic world period. You're big.

Hi!
It would be nice to start bot not just after "start bot" button is pressed, but on its hour defined in
runAtHour
It would be useful for situation when I would like to change config (add/remove source profiles) when bot is in his "long sleeping" time, but would not start bot immediately after the start button is pressed.
So as a suggestion - maybe just another button to "start with cron" despite of existing "Start Bot" button.
Additionally - it would also be useful that "stop bot" would not close whole application, just stop bot operations.

Thanks for your comments
Best regards,
Marcin

Currently it will reuse followed/unfollowed files and cause inconsistent operation.

Event better tough: #27

As a workaround you can delete the SimpleInstaBot inside the app data path if you need to change user.

this was suggested by email

Great program but after 2 days of using it it's not liking anymore any fix?

Hi! Thanks for your great work!
It would be useful to see the stats (the same that are available while bot is stopped) on the screen "your bot is running".
If it would be a problem to refresh it frequently - I think that updating it when bot reaches daily limit and goes to sleep for longer time would be enough.
Thanks for you support
Marcin

Happens both for the app downloaded from the website and run from the terminal. Anyone else has this issue of having to restart the application in order for it to work again (and unfortunately potentially "re"following accounts you already followed the day before) ?

... has been reported.
I suspect it is caused by the lottie animation

Sometimes the login page is different (looks like they did a redesign of instagram web app). Then the bot fails. I cannot reproduce this

I was getting this error when running the bot for the first time on Manjaro Linux XFCE. When running from the terminal it gave up error messages saying netstat not found. After installing the net-tools package it appears to be working fine. As there is no terminal when the AppImage runs, this netstat missing error should be included in the log instead of the 'parameter browser' error?

Hi!
Today I got situation that bot was going to unfollow non extisting user (possibly account has been deleted), and this caused exception.

8:17 AM Navigating to user XYZ
8:17 AM Waiting 2 sec
8:17 AM User not found
8:17 AM Error: Evaluation failed: TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined at __puppeteer_evaluation_script__:1:49```

I have manually stopped and started bot, and now seems working fine. 

Hi there,
Thank you for the good work here! I'm running the bot on a mac server. I realised, that the service is stopping to run soon after I'm no longer looking at the bot window. The program is opened, but it is just not doing anything any longer. When focusing the window again, it starts running again.
It is also visible in the logs. The bot stopped operating at 9:09 the last day and when focusing the window again, it continued to run at 6:05 PM the next day.

9:09 PMNavigating to user mayahalteinfachdiefresse
9:09 PMSleeping 1.867665811692172 sec
9:09 PMfollowedByCount: 60 followsCount: 119
9:09 PMFollowing user mayahalteinfachdiefresse
6:05 PMSleeping 5.703788375003248 sec
6:06 PMSleeping 1.7138594745936955 sec
6:06 PMSleeping 37.26973131047808 sec

Do you have any idea, where this could come from?

Hi,

When I have a network outage or high load on the pc I often hit the timeout of 3000 ms to connect. My intention is to set this bot and forget it on the machine so, here are some suggestions.

From a priority order in my view:

1- keep the limit of 3000 ms but add a function to retry in one or few minutes automatically;

2- add a config entry for running the bot in the moment of launching. This would allow me to automate the server to launch the bot with the server startup.

I believe those modifications could help us a lot :)

Thanks in advance!

How do i run the arm7 package on my raspberry pi?

Feature request received by email:

If I focus in jewelry companies on IG, account following contains jewelry IG account, followers are usually just random people. SO I want to follow same IG account as a specific jewelry account follows.

I don't know if this is the expected behavior but the .exe file I downloaded from Releases tab does not create or log file or store any sort of data on my PC so that it can unfollow people that it has followed at a later date.

I'm assuming it can only perform all the functions (un following, following new people after 24 hours etc) if you keep the program running 24/7. In that case I'd suggest allowing us an option to save the log file so the program can read that file on restart and restore its previous state

This has been requested.
electron-builder supports it but github actions does not have an arm7 builder.

Solutions:

• Self hosted runner (Raspberry Pi hardware)
• docker
• Build it from x64 using prebuilt electron? Only if no binary dependencies

Tried the newest autoinstaller version from here (win)
https://mifi.github.io/SimpleInstaBot/
Bot window is starting and i can click on START
But directly after the new window is opened and the creds to login were inserted it crashes with "Failed to Run". Tested with several accounts, which are all working when i login manually.

checked the console. Error is:

main.24d9e999.chunk.js:1 TypeError: Cannot read property 'click' of undefined
at module.exports (C:\Users\X\app.asar\node_modules\instauto\index.js:551:23)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:85:5)
at async Object.initInstauto

It gets stuck with a spinner in the login button and the URL hash #reactivated.

Reloading the page solves the issue.

Hello genius. First I want to say thanks for sharing your work. They are excellent !!!. Sorry for my bad english.I'm a follow of yours from Argentina.
My problem is that compiling the job with "electron-packager" I get the message "This normally means that either you have deleted this package already somehow (check your ignore settings if using electron-packager). Or your module installation failed.".
Any suggestions to help me compile it into an .exe
Thanks a lot.

I love your app, it works just great.
Is it possible to run 2 apps on 1 computer? And how?

Also I used instazood before and the only difference is that you can follow hashtags there and also there was a comment generator, where the app commented on user posts....will this come in the future?

one enhancement would be the ability to automate comments that would just make this even more wonderful!!

Hello, (first sorry for my english)

When i try to connect on mac, it seems regognise everything until a message about save username and password appears then it cannot log because of the window. I try to manually register later, then i'm connected on my account but simpleinstabot still saying it cannot logs.

Hey, I use this bot now vor a long time, works very good until today...
I start the bot like everyday but it don't start. I try log off/on and restart the App several times.
I use the latest (1.6.0) MacOS Version of SimpleInstaBot.

Here a Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/esSqGsZ.png

LOGS FROM LAST RUN
11:56 AMNo cookies found
11:56 AMWaiting 1 sec
11:56 AMSetting language to english
11:56 AMWaiting 1 sec
11:56 AMWaiting 6 sec
11:56 AMPressing button: Accept cookies dialog
11:56 AMWaiting 4 sec
11:56 AMLogin page button not found, assuming we have login form
11:56 AMWaiting 1 sec
11:56 AMWaiting 1 sec
11:56 AMWaiting 7 sec
11:56 AMWaiting 7 sec
11:57 AMStill not logged in, trying to reload loading page
11:57 AMWaiting 8 sec
11:57 AMWARNING: Login has not succeeded. This could be because of an incorrect username/password, or a "suspicious login attempt"-message. You need to manually complete the process.
11:57 AMWaiting 7 sec
11:57 AMWaiting 10 sec
11:57 AMWaiting 8 sec
11:57 AMWaiting 10 sec
11:57 AMWaiting 7 sec
11:57 AMWaiting 6 sec
11:58 AMWaiting 6 sec
11:58 AMWaiting 9 sec
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11:59 AMWaiting 9 sec
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Hey. I want to know if this works or not. Please tell me. Thank you.

Following and Unfollowing. I will be doing only 100 actions per day or even less. Like 30 actions per day. ( Or this app will get me action banned? )

Hi!
Thanks for resolving previous issues, that's great. I have one more improvement that can may help bot become more efficient.
By default, bot is starting by unfollowing, as I can see - because of sleeping actions it takes almost half day (literally 5-6h) to finish this job, and than bot starts his following actions.

This doesn't look to be efficient. Without rebuilding application flow is it possible to mix those actions (for example - unfollow users when bot reaches hourly follow limit? (I know that this may become a problem when maxFollowsPerHour is not set-up)

Thanks for you support
Marcin

Navigating to user -

Waiting 1 sec

Error: Evaluation failed: TypeError: Cannot read property 'user' of undefined
at puppeteer_evaluation_script:1:61

Sleeping 15.449751204256607 hours...

someone can help me?

how to compile to .exe?

I add the login details and everything it needs to, but when I click START it opens another window with the Instagram LogIn page for a second or so then it closes it and it says it failed. Basically I think it cannot add the login credentials by itself. I tried adding them manually super fast before that window closes, but even that didn't work. I am using the last appimage and arch. Cheers!

simply when I minimize the browser window it stop following peoples. When I reopen it, it continues working fine.

Hello there,
First of all i'm loving how simple your bot is and it also works!
couple of suggestions: maybe add more scripts, to comment, reply on stories!
I've had blast of fun using yours but I found out commenting on other user's pictures gets you alot of followers!

Hi,

Would it be possible to specify the bot to only follow men or women? A woman following and liking some random men's photos causes a rather strange movement on the woman's inbox.

hey :)
i was wondering if its possible for the bot to like posts rather than do follows?
if so, is it possible to configure the bots activities and change them? i find that for my account liking 4-6 posts from a user's follower does way better than follow-unfollow trick.

This has been requested. Not that easy because we cannot list followers of hashtags.
Seems to be possible to like photos of hashtags, although I don't know how effective this is.
Or go to each photo for a hashtag and find people who liked it and follow them.

e.g. https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/jewelry/

In instauto I'm seeing Action Blocked sometimes. I solved this by using puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth but in SimpleInstaBot we are using electron. Not sure if this issue will arise.

mifi/instauto#16

Anybody has this problems as me? It started yesterday, bot always write this in application and if I try webview to do manual follow, button still did not change, I also tried it in ig app, but first when i clicked it did not change, after second attemp it changed but when i look at that account later it was same as before (not followed). I dont know if i have ban/ or made over limits, but when i had ban in past it always poped up some text about it. Also im using same setting as before. Could it be bug on ig site?

Support for multiple accounts inside the app (and running multiple instances of the app) has been requested.

As of now you can not run multiple instances of the bot on the same computer (same user), as it will cause conflicts.

Potential issues:

• Need to prevent conflict with stored files like cookies.json, followed.json etc. (Store one file per account)
• This may cause more throttling by Instagram to the point that it will reduce the effectiveness of running multiple accounts (because they see more requests from the same IP on multiple accounts)

I had a issues with version 1, instagram will always writing to my mobile app about pishing and I needed always to change every day password, i installed version 2 and everything was good, but today bot wrote this message: Got 429 Too Many Requests, waiting... In ig webview u can see error, Please wait a few minutes before you try again. I tried restart app, restart pc but nothing changed, please help me out.

Hey Mikael

The Bot is now running for more than 2 weeks.

I started with 250 people following and now I am following 650.
I think I should follow much less.

Here is my config.

`{
"maxFollowsPerDay": 120,
"maxFollowsPerHour": 20,
"maxLikesPerDay": 70,
"maxLikesPerUser": 5,
"followUserRatioMin": 0.2,
"followUserRatioMax": 4,
"followUserMaxFollowers": 3000,
"followUserMaxFollowing": 1500,
"followUserMinFollowers": 40,
"followUserMinFollowing": 10,
"dontUnfollowUntilDaysElapsed": 3,
"runAtHour": 9
}

Is this a bug or has it to do something with my config?`

Hi Mikael,

I just noticed that the bot does not detect if you are blocked by instagram.

The Bot continues unfollowing but without any effect.

Hi,

The app pauses when the mac display goes to sleep, but the system hasn't gone to sleep (it's disabled), only the display is off. As soon as I move the mouse and the display is on again, the app continues.

Is that the expected behavior?

Hey man love your project been using it allot but yesterday I got myself I little raspberry pi so I thought it would be perfect to have your program run 24/7 but I'm not able to run it I'm running raspberry pi os 64bit can anyone help?

Hi,

Is it possible to "continue" the bot after closing it? I mean, if the bot followed 10 people and I close it, will it remember to unfollow that 10 people when I reopen it on a certain date? I've seen you talk about it on other issues, but I think it would be great to have this information explicit on Readme.

Thanks for the great software!

Hello.
I'm trying to run two bot instances on a Mac.
I copied the app to a different dir and launched two instances simultaneously, but both use the same credentials, pages to follow.
Is it possible to separate them completely so they use different data each?

First, thank you so much for the software, it works like a charm. One problem that I have a couple more instagram account. Is there a way to make the program work with more than one acount at the same time? (sorry for the english, I hope you understand what I wanted to say).

HI

I trying to run SimpleInstaBot on mac and getting this error:
Failed to run Error: WebSocket is not open: readyState 3 (CLOSED)

Any idea how I can fix that?

Hi! is it possible to only like a few photos from every user instead of following them as well?
since it is possible to follow and not like any photos, i wonder if it can be possible to just like without following?