IG Tracker

Are you petty about others unfollowing you on Instagram? Do you not have a way to effectively track losers that unfollow you? Or cool people that follow you? IG Tracker is the solution.

This repo contains a set of scripts that use python's instaloader module to log into a pre-configured bot account, then pull a list of followers which is then stored and compared to against followers from future executions. An email is then sent to inform you of any differences in followers.

Prerequisites

• An Instagram bot account
• An email bot account
• Python's instaloader module installed
• If your Instagram is private, your bot account must be following your Instagram

Setup

1. Create bot/ directory in users/
2. Add SMTP and IG credentials/arguments to smtp.json and ig.json respectively in users/bot
   • Use templates in templates/smtp.json and templates/ig.json
3. Run tools/adduser.py to create a user directory in users/ with necessary user data

Directory Structure

users/
├─ bot/
│  ├─ smtp.json
│  ├─ ig.json
├─ mary/
│  ├─ mary_followers.txt
│  ├─ mary_args.json
├─ bob/
│  ├─ bob_followers.txt
│  ├─ bob_args.json

Usage

• The first time you run igtracker.py, a file will be created in the users/<user>/ directory with a list of current followers
• Subsequent runs will extract followers from your Instagram and compare this set of followers to followers in the users/<user>/<user>_followers.txt file

Run using python3 igtracker.py -u | --users [ users ... ]