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This scripts help you to grow your business or personal account on instagram. The most common way to get followers is follow a lot of people, wait some time and unfollow them, this is what the script does, but automated.

How it works

There is no magic, we use a browser simulator built in javascript, the script login in your account and start clicking on buttons.

Dependencies

The scripts only depends the browser simulator called CasperJS: http://casperjs.org/

To install CasperJS you need a dependency manager called NPM https://www.npmjs.com/

After installing NPM, run the following command in the terminal:

npm install -g casperjs

Getting started

• Download source files.
• Inside each file, you need to change the first variables
  • login.js
    • YOUR_USERNAME
    • YOUR_PASSWORD
    • ENTER_BUTTON_NAME (Depends on your language, ex: Log In, Entrar, Anmelden)
  • findfollowers.js
    • TAG (The script will follow people using this hashtag)
  • follow.js
    • FOLLOW_BUTTON_NAME (Depends on your language, ex: Follow, Seguir, Folgen)
  • unfollow.js
    • FOLLOW_BUTTON_NAME (Depends on your language, ex: Following, Seguindo)

Running the scripts

You need to run each script to get the desired behavior

login.js

casperjs --verbose --log-level=debug --ignore-ssl-errors=true --ssl-protocol=any --cookies-file=/tmp/cookies test login.js

This script login in your account, it is using the file /tmp/cookies to store your login information, so you don't need login again to perform each action. You will login once, given that the session will expire, will need to run the login again.

findfollowers.js

casperjs --verbose --log-level=debug --ignore-ssl-errors=true --ssl-protocol=any --cookies-file=/tmp/cookies test findfollowers.js

This script will search for your chosen hashtag and store 10 people in the /tmp/peopletofollow

follow.js

casperjs --verbose --log-level=debug --ignore-ssl-errors=true --ssl-protocol=any --cookies-file=/tmp/cookies test follow.js

This will open the /tmp/peopletofollow file and follow each person.

unfollow.js

casperjs --verbose --log-level=debug --ignore-ssl-errors=true --ssl-protocol=any --cookies-file=/tmp/cookies test unfollow.js

This will open the /tmp/peopletofollow file and unfollow each person. IMPORTANT: Wait some time between follow and unfollow, because may takes some minutes to people follow you back.

Improve the automation

You can improve doing a shell script that call every javascript in a loop, example:

login

Start forever loop:
  
  find followers
  follow
  wait 20 minutes
  unfollow
  
end loop:

Enjoy ;)