russellelliott/instagramprofilecollector

InstagramProfileCollector

This program pares through the folloers of the UCSC instagram account as well as the people it follows. From there, it filters thhrough them, selecting the ones representing UCSC CS/Engineering clubs and organizations.

Usage

1. Go through follower and following list
2. Filtering

• UCSC
• Baskin
• Slug
• Engineer
• Santa
• Cruz
• Computer
• CS
• Machine

Methods

Due to complications that ensued on December 26, 2022 in which my account was suspended twice (ws able to resolve both times via my email and phone number), I decided to persue an implementation not persuing an API.

Login Notifications

Instagrapi will report a new login from a XiaoMI device in your location. That is the API.

Abandonment of Instabot

Common "Errors"

ds_user

This is caused from cookies interferring with the execution of the program. This is solved by deleting the "config" folder every time the program is run

ERROR - Error unknown send request

Honestly, this isn't really an error, as the program still runs in spite of this

Waiting 2.63 min. due to too many requests.

Program may stop a few times due to too many requests

Detecting unusual activity (HACKED_LOCK)

Excessive amounts of requests may cause your account to go into some sort of "lockdown"? All I had to do was get a security code and confirm it's me.

Reading Data from Google Sheets

Import/Read Google Sheet in Python

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6WSY9D_ORQ

Get column names in Pandas Dataframe

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-get-column-names-in-pandas-dataframe/

Iterating over rows in Pandas Dataframe

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/different-ways-to-iterate-over-rows-in-pandas-dataframe/

Instabot

https://instagrambot.github.io/docs/en/

Documentation

https://instagrambot.github.io/docs/en/For_developers.html

Get list of people following (as ids)

https://instagrambot.github.io/docs/en/For_developers.html#get_user_following

Get a list of followers (as ids)

https://instagrambot.github.io/docs/en/For_developers.html#get_user_followers

Followers vs Following

• Following are peoples accounts you subscribe to
• Followers are people who subscribe to you

Get username from id

https://instagrambot.github.io/docs/en/For_developers.html#get_username_from_user_id

Direct message someone

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73178091/send-direct-message-using-instagrapi

Upload a photo and post it

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/post-a-picture-automatically-on-instagram-using-python/

Troubleshooting

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59858749/info-ds-user-id-error-happen-in-instabot

Instagrapi

https://adw0rd.github.io/instagrapi/

https://github.com/adw0rd/instagrapi

User Methods

https://adw0rd.github.io/instagrapi/usage-guide/user.html

Delete Files/Directories

https://pynative.com/python-delete-files-and-directories/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6996603/how-do-i-delete-a-file-or-folder-in-python https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.rmtree

Check if directory exists

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-check-if-a-file-or-directory-exists-2/

Writing to a file

https://www.pythontutorial.net/python-basics/python-write-text-file/

Merge two lists

https://thispointer.com/python-how-to-merge-two-or-more-lists/

Write data to csv in Python

https://www.pythontutorial.net/python-basics/python-write-csv-file/