Igbot: Follow Users by Hashtag-Allow Business

[chadholman]

I'm hoping someone can help me include businesses when following users by hashtag rather than: "info: is BUSINESS, skipping!"

I've gone through bot.py and bot_filter.py and tried changing some variables with no effect.

[basnijholt]

https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/blob/master/instabot/bot/bot.py#L69

instabot.Bot(filter_business_accounts=False)

[chadholman]

Thanks @basnijholt, I had changed line 69 to false in the past without any effect. I've fetched the latest instabot and attempted again with no effect.
Should I be adding or modifying this line: instabot.Bot(filter_business_accounts=False) somewhere? I'm running an ultimate schedule.
Regards.

[chadholman]

this is the code from the script i'm running, making the change to False in bot.py has no effect:

-- coding: utf-8 --

from glob import glob
import os
import sys
import threading
import time

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

import config

bot = Bot(comments_file=config.COMMENTS_FILE,
blacklist_file=config.BLACKLIST_FILE,
whitelist_file=config.WHITELIST_FILE,
friends_file=config.FRIENDS_FILE)
bot.login()
bot.logger.info("ULTIMATE script. Safe to run 24/7!")

random_user_file = utils.file(config.USERS_FILE)
random_hashtag_file = utils.file(config.HASHTAGS_FILE)

def stats():
bot.save_user_stats(bot.user_id)

def like_timeline():
bot.like_timeline(amount=700 // 24)

def follow_users_from_hastag_file():
bot.follow_users(bot.get_hashtag_users(random_hashtag_file.random()))

schedule.every(9).minutes.do(stats)
schedule.every(5).minutes.do(like_timeline)
schedule.every(1).days.at("2:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("4:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("6:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("8:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("10:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("12:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("14:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("16:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("18:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("20:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("22:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)
schedule.every(1).days.at("0:40").do(follow_users_from_hastag_file)

while True:
schedule.run_pending()
time.sleep(1)

---

occasionally this will crash out after several cycles.

[basnijholt]

bot = Bot(comments_file=config.COMMENTS_FILE,
blacklist_file=config.BLACKLIST_FILE,
whitelist_file=config.WHITELIST_FILE,
friends_file=config.FRIENDS_FILE)

should change into

bot = Bot(comments_file=config.COMMENTS_FILE,
blacklist_file=config.BLACKLIST_FILE,
whitelist_file=config.WHITELIST_FILE,
friends_file=config.FRIENDS_FILE,
filter_business_accounts=False)

[imachref]

bot = Bot(comments_file=config.COMMENTS_FILE,
blacklist_file=config.BLACKLIST_FILE,
whitelist_file=config.WHITELIST_FILE,
friends_file=config.FRIENDS_FILE)
where to find this ? i couldn't find it in bot.py ?

[chadholman]

Thanks @basnijholt this works great now.
@imachref this goes in the script you are running, no need to modify bot.py

[chadholman]

@basnijholt I wonder if you can skip personal accounts and only focus on following business, as in B2B only?

[imachref]

@basnijholt @chadholman
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "instabot/examples/like_and_follow_last_user_media_likers.py", line 24, in
bot = Bot(comments_file=config.COMMENTS_FILE,
this is what i get ..

[basnijholt]

https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python

[imachref]

comeon dude ..

[basnijholt]

I am sorry, but I can't debug your code from just two lines of the traceback.

Also, I think that you don't really understand what you are doing, so I really recommend learning the basics of Python (which is very easy.)

[imachref]

.. in exactly like_and_follow_last_user_media_likers.py
thers only bot = Bot() which i can remplace it with
bot = Bot(comments_file=config.COMMENTS_FILE,
blacklist_file=config.BLACKLIST_FILE,
whitelist_file=config.WHITELIST_FILE,
friends_file=config.FRIENDS_FILE,
filter_business_accounts=False)

getting undifined name 'config'

[basnijholt]

change it into:

bot = Bot(filter_business_accounts=False)

[imachref]

worked <3 thnx alooot

[Areahints]

hello making the change to False in bot.py has no effect!
filter_business_accounts=False,

i am running the multi_script_CLI.py file

please tell me where to input your code @basnijholt

[Areahints]

Hello, in the file follow_users_by_hashtag.py in line 22
bot = Bot (filter_business_accounts=False)

despite this, when i run multi_script_CLI and select follow from hashtag i still see info: is Business, skipping

[Areahints]

help please @basnijholt @chadholman

[Areahints]

I'm leaving this behind to help anyone who might need, if you followed this guide https://instagrambot.github.io/docs/en/Installation_on_Unix.html
then you installed both the pip and github version, what happens is that the bot.py file you need to edit is in path-to-pip-installation editing the bot.py in the github version wont affect it.

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