Instapy: Dead Project?

[ghost]

There's a few useful pull requests that could be merged but it hasn't been in a long time. Is this project officially dead?

[Tr1pke]

It’s dead, not officially. It’s not that they will announce it on the news or in the presidential speech...

[Hatchet-Harry]

Survival of the fittest.

[timgrossmann]

@halalfood Are you interested in reviewing those PRs so that they can easily be merged?

@Tr1pke Well, there was an official announcement that I won't actively contribute anymore and that we're searching for someone to take over.
@breuerfelix Is currently investigating some new way to do what InstaPy did in a better manner, if that works out, there might be a new version of InstaPy with even easier handling, let's see.

[Tr1pke]

It was a great project to bad they use the web interface

[breuerfelix]

i will make an announcement soon, but the MVP is currently in really pre alpha. i want to have at least something basic running.

i will let the community more during this week !

be patient !

[wyattwade]

I was using InstaPy half a year ago with a lot of success, but have recently had a ton of issues when installing updates, or InstaPy from scratch. Would love to see this project continue or even help any way I can. I am however a C#/Javascript dev and not python, so not sure what I can do

[instasck]

Sed to see.
I used this project once for 100's of profiles.
Now there is almost no alternative, but some do make the job works.
However I still use the base of it to have an real android phone bot (not much of success at the moment).

Was nice thanks to everyone and @timgrossmann

[nickian]

Is InstaPy dead because Instagram becoming so good at bot detection, or does it just not have enough maintainers to keep up with minor API changes? Is there a viable alternative?

[timgrossmann]

@instasck Great to hear that you were able to use this for that many profiles at one point.
Maybe the new tool Felix is building at the moment will make it even easier to have many accounts since it won't be as compute intensive as InstaPy 😉

@nickian Well it's a combination of reasons. I think with "enough" time we'd still be able to make it work without people getting banned.
However, the code base is a mess since I've missed the point where refactoring it to be more structured and clean. In addition to that, it's a ton of effort, even for several people in the core team to build and maintain such a tool, many of the core contributors are lacking time to work on it without getting at least a bit of financial return.
That's why the best solution is to build a new tool, from what have been learned, from scratch. That's what Felix is working on at the moment.

[withali]

@breuerfelix
I love to help. (for documentation and in future developing)

[breuerfelix]

@withali could you chat me on discord please ? :)

[ghost]

@timgrossmann I'd be interested!

[timgrossmann]

@halalfood Awesome to hear that, Mohammed!

Once Felix split the issues in smaller packets you could take up one of those implementations, how does that sound? 😊
Would love to see you contributing to the next generation of Instagram automation!

[breuerfelix]

@timgrossmann @halalfood guess he meant he would be interested in reviving instapy ?? that would be even better !

but if you are interesed in v2, also, just chat me on discord please :)

[timgrossmann]

@breuerfelix @halalfood Oh, I see. If that was your idea and is your wish, feel free to do so 😊
Even though I think really pushing Felix's efforts in creating a new, improved bot is better.

[spud-dog]

Really excited to see the results! 😃

[wyattwade]

Let me know how I can help as well. It would be awesome to get the current version up and running again (just fix the small issues), and then look forward to V2

[timgrossmann]

@wyattwade @halalfood Thank you for the interest in getting the current version (0.6.5) of InstaPy back up and running before focusing on the v2.

I have to be honest that I can't estimate how much work that will be and if that work isn't better suited to be put into v2.

The approach I mostly took when getting a broken version back up in the past was to just test the most used features (judging by what people complain about :) ) and try them out with a test account.
Whenever the bot stopped or something broke I fixed that specific problem and then tried again until it worked.
Unfortunately I can't pinpoint the places we currently have the biggest problems at so you would need to work through this on your own, really sorry 🙁

[analyticsdept]

@wyattwade what issues have you run into? I've been able to get it up and running on RP and Mac with a few tweaks so maybe I can help :)

[analyticsdept]

i will make an announcement soon, but the MVP is currently in really pre alpha. i want to have at least something basic running.

i will let the community more during this week !

be patient !

I am SO stoked for this... Is it also going to be open to contributors or are you limiting that for now? Thanks @breuerfelix!

[spud-dog]

@breuerfelix just wondering if there's any news you can share? 😊

[breuerfelix]

@spud-dog maybe i should make a new announcement in the instapy channel :D

well current features are like by timeline, like by tags and story mass view

also commenting is finished (just needs to be merged)

it is really time consuming right now because i am often refactoring the code so it wont get messy later on. but we are making progress !

worst part is: you get blocks less often, you can like more with this bot BUT you still get blocks sometimes... its still not as good as the actual phone. But if we are able to extract the device id and user agent from your actual phone and integrate that into the bot, the bot will be the same as the phone, so there is potential in the future :D

[Tr1pke]

We should make a IRC channel ;-)

[breuerfelix]

i got a channel on the instapy discord, maybe i should just make it public :D

[sionking]

hi all,
Can you share what is the core for the new bot ?
I did developed a no-blocks bot, but it is more expensive to operate.
I might be able to help here ...

[breuerfelix]

@sionking
the core is https://github.com/dilame/instagram-private-api this lib :)

so i got the feeling that instagram is checking if the device id of this phone is the same as the usual 'old' device id ... so we need to figure out the data of the acutal users phone, to get the best experience

whats your core ?

[sionking]

@sionking
the core is https://github.com/dilame/instagram-private-api this lib :)

so i got the feeling that instagram is checking if the device id of this phone is the same as the usual 'old' device id ... so we need to figure out the data of the acutal users phone, to get the best experience

whats your core ?

I don't think they check the device id... anyway I think this is a web api not application one.
I use real phones, working great. 4 months of work, uncovering the security in IG.
Go and decompile the APK.

[breuerfelix]

@sionking
the core is https://github.com/dilame/instagram-private-api this lib :)
so i got the feeling that instagram is checking if the device id of this phone is the same as the usual 'old' device id ... so we need to figure out the data of the acutal users phone, to get the best experience
whats your core ?

I don't think they check the device id... anyway I think this is a web api not application one.
I use real phones, working great. 4 months of work, uncovering the security in IG.
Go and decompile the APK.

thats exactly what the library did :D they use the real phone api :)
so you use emulators ?

[sionking]

@sionking
the core is https://github.com/dilame/instagram-private-api this lib :)
so i got the feeling that instagram is checking if the device id of this phone is the same as the usual 'old' device id ... so we need to figure out the data of the acutal users phone, to get the best experience
whats your core ?

I don't think they check the device id... anyway I think this is a web api not application one.
I use real phones, working great. 4 months of work, uncovering the security in IG.
Go and decompile the APK.

thats exactly what the library did :D they use the real phone api :)
so you use emulators ?

But it is well known that the use of API is dead, it missing so many things like:

• client event logger - physical movements, sensors, motion events ....
• Android Flags ...
  it can't work if IG want to fight it.

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