Instagram Follower Collector

TL:DR

Instagram Follower Collector is a nodejs automation script, using puppeteer, that can compile a list of account followers.

Installation Guide

1. Clone the repo.
2. Run npm i to install the required packages.
3. In the root of the project create a .env file.
4. In the .env you need to include the following:

USERNAME=<An Instagram username>
PASSWORD=<The account password>
URL_TO_SCRAPE=<The suffix of the profile that you want to scrape>

5. Run the script by entering npm run start

### Benchmark times

• Coming soon...
• 10 followers
• 100 followers
• 1000 followers
• 5000 followers
• 10,000 followers
• 25,000 followers
• 25k plus followers...

Todo List

• If the script bugs out, kill and restart
• Rewrite scraper in typescript(?)
• Publish as npm package?
• Add unit tests
• Add script execution timer
• Add better logging

Credits

Built with the Puppeteer docs and a lot of Stackoverflow.