ireddragonicy / folgram

🚀 Folgram

🔴 WARNING!

This script uses your Instagram sessionID which can contain sensitive information. Please be careful when sharing or storing your sessionID. It is recommended to run this script in a secure environment.

⚠️ Important Notice Before Running the Script

1. 🚫 Rate Limiting and Potential Ban: This script uses multi-threading to fetch the followers and following lists concurrently. This can result in a large number of requests being sent to Instagram in a short period of time. If you make too many requests, Instagram might detect the activity as bot-like and limit your API usage, or even ban your account temporarily or permanently. To avoid this, please use the script responsibly and avoid making excessive requests.

2. 🔄 Unexpected Logout: If you find yourself unexpectedly logged out of your Instagram account after using this script, do not panic. This is a security measure by Instagram when it detects unusual activity such as excessive use of their API. It does not mean that your account has been hacked. Simply log back in to continue using Instagram.

📖 Overview

The folgram project is a Python script to analyze Instagram followers and followings. It fetches the list of followers and following of a specific user and identifies users who do not follow back.

📚 Project Structure

The main file in this project is main.py. This script performs the following operations:

• Reads the Instagram sessionID from a file named cookie.txt. If the file is empty or does not exist, it asks the user to input the sessionID manually.
• Fetches the list of followers and following of a specific user using Instagram's private API endpoints.
• Compares the list of followers and following, and prints out the usernames of people who do not follow back.

🚀 How to Run the Script

1. Make sure you have Python installed on your machine. This script requires Python 3.6 or later.
2. Install the requests library if you haven't already. You can install it using pip:

   pip install requests
   

3. Clone this repository to your local machine.
4. Obtain your Instagram sessionID and save it in a file named cookie.txt in the same directory as main.py.
5. Run the script using Python:

   python main.py
   

📝 Note

Please be aware that this script uses private Instagram API endpoints. These are not officially supported by Instagram and may change or stop working at any time. Use this script