https://github.com/sabaimran/instabot

This short script allows you to automatically post a photo from your file system to your Instagram account using the web UI.
https://github.com/sabaimran/instabot

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This short script allows you to automatically post a photo from your file system to your Instagram account using the web UI.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sabaimran/instabot
• Owner: sabaimran
• Created: 2021-12-12T21:16:12.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-05-23T02:52:44.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-22T07:29:23.847Z (13 days ago)
• Topics: automation, bot, copilot, instagram, selenium, selenium-python, selenium-webdriver
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.29 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Instabot

I created this tiny application so that I could ease the process of posting to Instagram. I didn't want to have to open up the app to post manually, but I still felt like it's good practice to share some of my photography on occasion.

With a bit of configuration, this script will let you publish a photo with a caption of your choosing to an account for which you have login credentials!

# Run it!

## First time

1. `conda env create environment.yml`

2. `sudo apt install firefox`

3. `chmod +x instabot.sh`

### Initialize your environment

1. Replace `username` and `password` in your config with your username and password. Remember **never** to commit & push your config!

2. Determine the classNames associated with a few different components on your Instagram web page. This is a little bit cumbersome, and I'll try to find a way around it, but for now this is the process 😞

| Field | Screenshot |

|-|-|

| Replace `new-post-selector` with the className for the New Post button. | ![New Post Button](docs/new-post.png) |

| Replace `button-selector` with the className for the Next button. This should cover all of our major buttons. | ![Next Button](docs/next-button.png) |

| Replace `caption-selector` with the className for the Textarea in the captioning flow.| ![Caption Textarea](docs/caption-textarea.png)|

## Each time

1. `bash -i instabot.bash`

    - Replace `sample_config.yml` with your config file.

    - The `sample_config.yml` file is preloaded with reference to a couple of test images you can use to try the tool out.

# Scheduling

I created this project so I could automate posting photos to Instagram. To run the script on a schedule, I'm using [crontab](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/crontab.5.html). 

1. Open up your `crontab` configuration to edit.

    - `crontab -e`

2. Add the entry to schedule the `instabot.py` script.

    - `m h dom m dow DISPLAY=:0 /home/user/path/to/this-project/insta-bot/instabot.bash`

      - The `DISPLAY:=0` allows us to launch the Firefox browser via a `cronjob` in headless mode (i.e., without a display).

# Built with

- [Github Copilot](https://copilot.github.com/)

- [Selenium](https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/browser/)