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Created November 10, 2013 02:07
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My Instagram account got hacked and next time I logged in I was following >500 spammers. Instead of using the UI to unfollow them (painfully slow) I put together this little script.
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instagram_unfollow.py
from instagram.client import InstagramAPI
from instagram.bind import InstagramAPIError, InstagramClientError
from time import sleep
access_token = "SETMET"
api = InstagramAPI(access_token=access_token)
follows = api.user_follows(MY_USERID)
for user in follows[0]:
print "Unfollowing: " + user.username
api.unfollow_user(user_id=user.id)
sleep(2) # be nice or get blocked from the API endpoint
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How does this works? Excuse me I'm new with this and want to unfollow masively. I speak spanish so, sorry for my bad english

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