As of recently, this script does not seem to work consistently. I am currently investigating this, and may look into using another library.
Keep track of who unfollows you on Instagram!
This script uses a package called igramscraper to scrape Instagram. In order to use this script, you must create a 'bot' or 'fake' account which will be used to access your actual Instagram account. This serves as a layer as safety - if Instagram detects unusual behavior and shuts down the account due to scraping, the 'bot' account will be affected, not your own.
The script will generate a list of your current followers and store that in followers.txt. Each subsequent execution of the script will compare followers.txt (which now stores your old followers or the list of followers at the time you last ran the script) with a list of your current followers, print the difference, and then re-write followers.txt with the current followers. In terminal talk, essentially diff is being ran against your old and current followers.
- Run
pip install -r requirements.txt(Note: you may need to usepip3) - Enter your 'bot' account credentials in
unfollowers.py(at the top of the file) - Enter your actual username in
unfollowers.py(at the top of the file) - Run
unfollowers.pyonce to generate a.txtfile containing your followers - Run
unfollowers.pyan additional time to see Instagram unfollow statistics (it will take some time for your followers to change though)
Steps 1-4 only need to be ran once for initialization. After that, step 5 can be used at any time.
- Users that change their username will show up as 'unfollowers'
- Deleted accounts will show up as 'unfollowers'
- You should not run this script multiple times consecutively without any breaks in between. This could potentially cause a
429 Error.
- Account being fetched can have a maximum of 1 million followers. However, the script will take an extremely long time to run with an account of this size, so it is recommended to use this script on accounts with less followers (~0-5000).