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Instagram Scraper with Face detection and autopost

Steffan Jensen — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:22:26 +0000

Website | Read the Docs | Contribute | Buy Instagram Expert Marketing

Instagram scraper which scrapes peoples images use machine learning to recognise a face, if face
is detected it will repost that photo.

Face detection at work on a live webcam

Script now saves user session and and have CLI session.
I also integrated it with instabot api.
90% of it are junk code I will fix it later.

This script scrapes images from users and then repost them under your Instagram accounts with your own tags.

Demo:
https://www.instagram.com/siliconeheaven/

Requirements

Python 3.6+
Min 10-20 profiles inside instaprofiles.txt

The script does not work with new accounts. If you know how to fix, send me a message.

To install script with Docker:

git clone https://github.com/reliefs/Instagram-scraper-with-autopost.git

cd Instagram-scraper-with-autopost

Create a file called secret.txt inside that folder with the following info:
yourusername:yourpassword
Save it

change yourusername to your instagram username in file example.py line 31: InstaUsername = "yourusername"

Docker build .

Docker run [imageid]

To install script on Windows:

Install Cmake

download link : https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.14.1/cmake-3.14.1.zip

Install Dblib

Download dlip ‘.wheel’ file as ur system requirnment (use link bellow)
download link : https://pypi.python.org/simple/dlib/

Open cmd navigate to dlib wheel file path and hit command
pip install dlib_file_name.wheel

Then run

git clone https://github.com/instagrambot/Instagram-scraper-with-autopost --recursive

cd Instagram-scraper-with-autopost

pip install -r requirements.txt

change yourusername to your instagram username in file example.py line 31: InstaUsername = "yourusername"

change instaprofiles.txt to the instagram profiles you wanna scrape

Run: python example.py -u yourusername

And press Enter.

To install script on Linux:

Ubuntu:
apt-get install python-dev python3-dev
sudo apt install g++
sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt install python3-pip

Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -S python3-dev
sudo pacman -S cmake
sudo pacman -S python3-pip

First, make sure you have dlib already installed with Python bindings:

How to install dlib from source on macOS or Ubuntu

Then do

git clone https://github.com/reliefs/Instagram-scraper-with-autopost.git

cd Instagram-scraper-with-autopost

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

change yourusername to your instagram username in file example.py line 31: InstaUsername = "yourusername"

change instaprofiles.txt to the instagram profiles you wanna scrape

Run: python3 example.py

Troubleshoot

If you are getting Illegal Instruction with face_recognition follow this guide:
https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/issues/11#issuecomment-475482716

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'face_recognition_model_v1'

Solution: The version of dlib you have installed is too old. You need version 19.7 or newer. Upgrade dlib.

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBIUTION AND MODIFICATION.

You just do WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

Instabot

Steffan Jensen — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:21:28 +0000

Instabot

Instagram promotion and SMM scripts.
Forever free. Written in Python.

Read the Docs | Contribute

Installation

Install instabot with:

pip install -U instabot

or see this for more details.

If this library solved some of your problems, please consider buying me a coffee. 😉

How I made a Instagram Bot with face detection.

Steffan Jensen — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 04:58:37 +0000

Instagram scraper with autopost and face detection.

I made an Instagram Bot which autoscraped peoples profiles took a machine learning module and reposted the images back to Instagram. I am new to python, so many of the fundamentals are missing, all feedback are good.

This was maybe my third python bot, I had played little around with different social network bots on Github, they all ended up on the same road, liking pictures of dogs, commercials and other weird stuff, I reached out to the bot creators most said it was impossible, too much work.

Download My Instagram Bot:
https://github.com/instagrambot/Instagram-scraper-with-autopost

How I implemented face detection

So i ended up implementing it myself with only 2 lines of code.

    image = face_recognition.load_image_file(instapath)
    face_locations = face_recognition.face_locations(image)
    # If no face located scrape the next profile
    if not face_locations:
        print("There is no Face Detected scraping next profile")
        x += 1
        instascraper()
    else:
        print("There is a Face Detected scraping and posting this image")

Face detection at work on a live webcam

I had already made the scraper/reposter myself within a few days, so to implement this code and it just worked.. was perfect

My script right now have a few third party packages and it's really fun to see how easy it's it to implement different modules. I think Python is a really fun language and the possibilities and endless.

My Instagram Scraper Website:
https://instabotai.com

Download My Instagram Bot:
https://github.com/instagrambot/Instagram-scraper-with-autopost

Increase Website Page Speed

Steffan Jensen — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:25:30 +0000

Many websites takes around 2-5 minutes to load, in this tutorial we will take a look on how to increase your website page speed within your own code and some other frameworks.

There are two things you should think about when you want to increase your pagespeed, how to avoid memory leaks and how to avoid the same requests over and over again.

When looking at frameworks a thing which is heavy is Wordpress. Frameworks are a wheel to avoid slow load time, the reason is you install more code(Plugins) to increase page speed, this will work sometimes but it will not increase the speed 95%.

It is possible to increase pages peed on every website, also by 95%. If you are coding the website yourself stop using JQuery, if you are only using it for two functions. Stop using a package for one single command and stop loading this package on every site or every request.

I have build a website creator which use 0 packages in python and 0 packages in html/css.

Github: https://github.com/reliefs/websitecreator

The website creator creates a website from your user input within 20 seconds, you can see a demo here: https://fiverrdiscountcode.com

Inline-style:

As you can see the speed is 99% on mobiles and 100% on computers. This is two scripts inside one and I was still able to keep the speed 100% on google page speed.

So think about how you code your website, remember many times 80-90% is just junk or memory leaks. Happy Coding.

My Instagram Scraper Website:
https://instascraper.github.io

Download My Instagram Bot:
https://github.com/instagrambot/Instagram-scraper-with-autopost

Follow me:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffan-jensen/
https://github.com/reliefs/
https://dev.to/reliefs/
https://fiverrdiscountcode.com

When you sit down, you will never get up.

Steffan Jensen — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:32:02 +0000

This is something I have witnessed since birth. When a person sits down at the computer, spends his whole life there and if he is lucky he will get up at age 60. This is not my story, because I spend more time at the computer than my whole life. This is it.

The computer is a funny thing, because you can easy become a slave to it. This is how the operation system on most deviceses are programmed, so there is no way out of the loop without realising it before you are out. So how do you come to the conclusion to realise that you are stuck.. First you have to look at the tasks you are doing.

Every command typed takes time i can take your entire day of work and program it into one single command. So the work you do 12 hours every day I can do in seconds.

So what is the problem here? The real problem is not to understand, why we program and how computers calculate. Programming is to take several commands into one single command, see it all comes down to {TAKE ALL THE TASKS I DO} > 1 CLICK. How you come to the destination does not matter, just that it do allyourtasks with 1 click.

That I'm writing this article and it took 20min are a waste of time and I could just as easy make an entire AI article writer for programming, you would not could see the difference and this AI creates 1 article each millisecond.

Writing articles is not what i do, so I have not programmed a bot for that yet, but the machines do the work, let the machine work, not you.

To understand how to think about a computer, all a person need is to take a course about basic Computer Science, but most programmers don't even do that, our computer is so fast and yet our operation system, programs and web development are far worse than code made in 1900. So why do we have this problem.. If i put my developer glasses on, it's easy, we put layer upon layer and most developers never peels this onion. Because they don't do that, they will never understand how a computer works, it's really so simple.

Let me give you example, we have two lightbulbs.. on means yes, and off means no.

10

yes > no

input(name)

if name is steffan > login

else do nothing.

A machine would read something like

if name is steffan > 1

else 0

If i had a lightbulb at home at you where on the street looking, you would see everytime the lightbulb is on it's steffan, everytime its off, it's someone else there.

My Instagram Scraper Website:
https://instascraper.github.io

Download My Instagram Bot:
https://github.com/instagrambot/Instagram-scraper-with-autopost

Follow me:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffan-jensen/
https://github.com/reliefs/
https://dev.to/reliefs/
https://fiverrdiscountcode.com

How to make a website

Steffan Jensen — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 03:28:36 +0000

First you gonna need a text editor, if you use windows, you can use notepad or if you wanna go pro search for sublime text, in Linux go with vim or another editor, and mac... figure it out yourself

Now you have the text editor open, you should start typing.

<html>
<title>
My websites title
</title>
<body>
<h1>This is my website headline</h1>
Welcome to my website
<img src="https://markmanson.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/stones.jpg">
</body>
</html>

Example: https://jsfiddle.net/58ngefro/1/

Now click Save and save the file as mywebsite.html, now open the mywebsite.html file with your mouse in your directory.

Always when you create statements you should remember to use the <> and close it again with </> this is a way for the code to know the difference between when to open and close new statements.

Now we have a basic website. If you learn these 3 commands which is ,

and . You will be able to understand every HTML line in the matter of a few seconds.

Now we have the basic we should be moving on to add different stuff to your new website, like images and different text.

<html>
<title>
My websites title
</title>
<body>
<h1>This is my website headline</h1>
Welcome to my website
<img src="https://markmanson.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/stones.jpg">
</body>
</html>

Example: https://jsfiddle.net/xo981m4s/

Save the file and open it.

Now you have created your first website with both a title,headline,text and image. There are thousands of more commands you can use in HTML. But with this tutorial we just covered the basic.

My Instagram Scraper Website:
https://instascraper.github.io

Download My Instagram Bot:
https://github.com/instagrambot/Instagram-scraper-with-autopost

Follow me:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffan-jensen/
https://github.com/reliefs/
https://dev.to/reliefs/
https://fiverrdiscountcode.com