A Simple Instagram Like & Comment Bot written in Python

Simple Instagram Like & Comment Bot

An Instagram bot written in Python using Selenium on Google Chrome. It will go through posts in hashtag(s) and like and comment on them.

Please be aware of Instagram's daily limits for likes and comments to avoid getting your account banned.

Python 3
Pip - a python package manager
- Download this file, open a command prompt and navigate to the folder containing the get-pip.py installer, and run python get-pip.py to install
- Run pip --version to check if it has installed correctly
ChromeDriver - a WebDriver for Chrome
- See Additional Information for more details on installing
Selenium - a python package used to automate web browser interaction
pip install -U selenium

Download ChromeDriver and extract the file.
- Check the version of your Google Chrome and download the matching ChromeDriver version

Check Chrome Version

In config.py change the chromedriver_path to the local path of where your ChromeDriver executable file is located

chromedriver_path = "C:/local/path/to/chromedriver.exe"

Adjustments you can make in config.py to tweak the bot to your liking. (Please be aware of Instagram's daily limits for likes and comments to avoid getting banned.)
- hashtag_list - List of hashtags to go through
- comments_list - List of comments to be randonmly chosen from
- number_of_posts - Number of posts to go through per hashtag
- chance_to_comment - Chance of commenting on photo
- wait_between_posts - Time to wait in between instagram posts in seconds
- wait_to_comment - Time to wait in between liking a post and commenting on it in seconds
Create a file named credentials.py to hold your account login information using the format below.
- See File Structure for where the file should be placed.

USERNAME = "xxx"
PASSWORD = "xxx"

python insta-bot.py

Twitter-Retweet-Bot
 |-- config.py
 |-- credentials.py
 |-- insta-bot.py