insta Bot

Follow the bot Here!

Introduction

This is a fun little project created in python. It will fetch random image from Unsplash and random caption from randomtextgenerator. Then it will post it on instagram using instagrapi.

First execition takes a little longer, it needs to cache your instagram account data

How to run

1. Fulfill requirements in requirements.txt(i.e. pip install -r requirements.txt).
2. Replace username and password with your credentials in the .env file and run it with: python main.py (first time it may ask for a login code via mail)
3. To run it every 24h just add it to your crontab with crontab -l after setting everything up (and double checking it works!)

(optional, use virtualenv to set a proper environment)

Troubleshooting

if you get following error ImportError: libopenjp2.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory you probably need to install libopenjp2-7

Tested on

• WSL
• Raspberry
• Windows 10
• Windows 11
• well, it should work likely everywhere pythons runs..

Credits

Contributors 💻 :

• Deep Raval
• Alessandro Digilio

Without these libraries ❤️ this would not have been possible.

• pillow
• BeautifulSoup
• instagrapi