UPDATE :

The bot is no longer in service since it has been shadow banned by instagram so I am unable to post.

• This is probably due to the fact that the bot uploads photos in a consistent manner

Instapup

An Instagram bot that attempts to upload a photo of a dog every 5 minutes!

Tools

• VSCode
• Python 3.8.5

Python Libraries & modules

• Instabot
• Beautiful Soup
• dontenv
• requesting
• random
• threading

Project Overview

Local Project Structure

Local Structure in Depth

Code

A folder that contains bot.py, clean.py, and and image.py.

bot.py

The instagram bot file that utilizes the instabot library to log in and upload photos on instagram. Photos are randomly chosen and reploaded again every 300 seconds. Photos are lastly discarded, and the files are remainded dog1.jpg.REMOVE_ME

clean.py

Would analyze the image folder that bot.py has interacted with and would remove all files that end with .REMOVE_ME. Would remove all files every 300 seconds.

image.py

Utilized the Beautiful Soup library to randomly webscrap images from Google Images.

Search terms are defined in a dictionary and then one is randomly chosen by key term value.

SEARCH= {"dog": 1, "dogs":2, "pupper":3, "puppers":4, "puppy":5,"doggo":6, "doggie:":7, "cute dogs":8, "small puppies":9, "puppies":10, "doggies":11}

#A portion of download_images()
 def download_images():
     data = random.choice(list(SEARCH))
     print(f"searching for {data}")
     num_images = randint(1,80)
     print('searching...')

After that the number of images for that search term is then chosen out of a maximum of 80 files.

Heroku Deployment Structure

Heroku Structure in Depth

Code

A folder that contains bot.py and a modified combination of clean.py and image.py. The combination was due to the limit of 2 free dynos.

Within the code folder:

• bot.py
• image.py
• images

Procfile

A file that declares what commands Heroku should run.

requriments.txt

A text file that make sures heroku is able to install all the libraries needed for the program.

Created with this command pip freeze > requirements.txt

runtime.txt

Lets heroku know what Python version the program is using.

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