Igbot: Unfollow users who haven't posted in a while (or have't posted more than 5 photos)

[AmruthPillai]

Unfollow users who haven't posted in a while (or have't posted more than 5 photos)

Could this feature be implemented?
I would like to at least learn how to create such a script, if possible.

[sudoguy]

@AmruthPillai It's very expensive because bot need get information about every your follower.
You can try this script

import sys
import os
from tqdm import tqdm

sys.path.append(os.path.join(sys.path[0], '../'))
from instabot import Bot
from instabot.bot import delay

def get_unactive_followers(my_bot, followers, min_media_count=5):
    unactive_followers = []
    for follower in tqdm(followers, 'Getting follower info'):
        follower_info = my_bot.get_user_info(follower)
        if follower_info['media_count'] < min_media_count:
            unactive_followers.append(follower)
        delay.small_delay(my_bot)

    return unactive_followers


bot = Bot()
bot.login()

min_media_count = 5

followers = bot.get_user_followers(bot.user_id)
unactive_followers = get_unactive_followers(bot, followers, min_media_count)

bot.unfollow_users(unactive_followers)

[AmruthPillai]

The script is brilliant, just what I asked for... but you're right, it is taxing on the server. It throws an error saying too many requests right when it's gathering information about followers.

Getting follower info:   5%|▊              | 100/1888 [05:44<1:47:34,  3.61s/it]2017-10-01 23:02:45,870 - WARNING - Request return 429 error!
2017-10-01 23:02:45,871 - WARNING - That means 'too many requests'. I'll go to sleep for 5 minutes.

Is there a way to break up this process into first 50-100 followers, perform the actions, and after a bigger delay, rerun the process?

[pxtyr]

i think best way to approach this is to use whitelist-blacklist example.
this way you can have separate, occasional proccess that looks up users and another that unfollows based on the blacklist/whitelist generated.

[iransales]

@pxtyr Can you give an example?

[pxtyr]

Basic workflow might be:

fetch and list userids of who you are following (stored in followed.txt)
list [:n] (say 100 at a time per run of script)
run the get.user.info sequence that is used for existing auto-follow script
if fail get.user.info (ie. If media count < 5), add userid to file like unfollow.txt

You can run this script every hour or so.. basically auditing 100 users at a time... this will make it easier not to be banned.

Then on separate occasion you can run simple unfollow script that simply looks at the unfollow.txt

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