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More changes are needed to make this project fully operational. There is a high chance that accounts with large amounts of followers/followees won't be able to get a full list of them.\n\n---\n\n**PyInstaFollow** is the simplest tool for finding out who is not following you back.\n\nI know how these tools tend to be and how sketchy they always seem. For this reason I decided to create **PyInstaFollow** and publish it as an open source project.\n\n### So what does it do?\n- Get a list of people *following you* (Followers).\n- Get a list of people *you follow* (Followees).\n- Compare the two lists and see who isn't following you back.\n- (NEW) Backup old followers and followees lists.\n\n# Usage\n1. `git clone https://github.com/Yaw-Dev/PyInstaFollow`\n2. `cd PyInstaFollow`\n3. `pip install -r requirements.txt`\n4. Fill in your information on *`config.json`* \n\u003e 5/2/2026 update: Login method has changed from user/password to cookies. 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