Google Chrome script that allows user to mass follow instagram users on another's profile

follow-instagram.js

// Run GOOGLE CHROME - WORKING AS OF DEC 26 2023
// Please @ me in the comments if this stops working, I will try to get it working again within the month

// INSTRUCTIONS
// 1. Open Instagram in Chrome
// 2. Click on "FOLLOWERS" OR "FOLLOWING" on your Instagram profile or a desired user's Instagram profile
// 3. Open developer tools by right clicking on the page and clicking "INSPECT"
// 4. Copy the code below and paste in the developer tools console and press enter to run
// 5. Script will not run if tab is navigated away from, minimized of unfocused (It is recommended to open a new chrome window or push tab to the side and let script run in background)

// Script will follow everyone on the page until it reaches the follow limit or the time limit
// Script will take a break after the follow limit is reached to avoid rate limiting

const followEveryone = (async () => {
  // Modify these variables to your liking
  const FOLLOW_LIMIT = 800;
  const BREAK_DURATION = 5 * 60 * 1000; // 5 minutes break

  const TOTAL_DURATION = 10 * 60 * 1000; // 10 minutes duration - Timeout after 10 minutes

  const delay = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
  // Find target button
  const findButton = (txt) =>
    [...document.querySelectorAll("button").entries()]
      .map(([pos, btn]) => btn)
      .filter((btn) => btn.innerText === txt)[0];

  console.log("Start following script...");

  let startTime = new Date().getTime();

  while (new Date().getTime() - startTime < TOTAL_DURATION) {
    for (let i = 0; i < FOLLOW_LIMIT; i++) {
      const followButton = findButton("Follow");
      if (!followButton) {
        continue;
      }
      followButton.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
      followButton.click();
      await delay(100);
      const confirmFollowButton = findButton("follow");
      if (confirmFollowButton) {
        await confirmFollowButton.click(); // Wait for the follow to complete
      }

      // Increase FOLLOW_INTERVAL if you are getting rate limited
      // Set this to 0 follow as quickly as possible - not recommended
      // Random follow interval for each follow to avoid rate limiting
      const FOLLOW_INTERVAL = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10 + 1) * 1000; 

      console.log(`Wait ${FOLLOW_INTERVAL} milliseconds`);
      await delay(FOLLOW_INTERVAL);
      console.log(`Followed #${i + 1}`);
    }

    console.log(`Taking a break for ${BREAK_DURATION / 1000} seconds...`);
    await delay(BREAK_DURATION); // Take a break to avoid rate limiting
    startTime = new Date().getTime(); // Reset start time for the next cycle
  }

  console.log("Follow script complete!");
})();

Hi @chaodonghu

Great code! Anyway, I have a question. How do I modify the script so it follows 40 accounts at a two-second interval and then it waits for 10 minutes before following another 40 accounts again? I'd like the loop to repeat three times. So it goes:

1. Follow an account and wait for 2 seconds X40
2. Wait for 10 minutes
3. Follow an account and wait for 2 seconds X40
4. Wait for 10 minutes
5. Follow an account and wait for two seconds X40
6. ---LOOP ENDS---

Thank you very much.

Hey @kevindrummond1,

The code is designed so there is only a single timeout, I think following 80 accounts within 80 seconds will probably get you rate-limit blocked by instagram.

But you can probably do something like this

// RUN WITH GOOGLE CHROME
// 1. OPEN INSTAGRAM
// 2. CLICK ON "FOLLOWERS" OR "FOLLOWING" ON A DESIRED USER'S PROFILE
// 3. OPEN DEVELOPER TOOLS BY RIGHT CLICKING ON PAGE AND CLICKING "INSPECT"
// 4. COPY FOLLOWING CODE AND PASTE IN DEVELOPER TOOLS CONSOLE AND RUN
// 5. SCRIPT WILL NOT RUN IF TAB IS NAVIGATED AWAY FROM, MINIMIZED OR UNFOCUSED
// IT IS RECOMMENDED TO OPEN A NEW CHROME WINDOW OR PUSH TAB TO THE SIDE AND LET SCRIPT RUN IN BACKGROUND

// SCRIPT WILL CLICK ON "FOLLOW" BUTTON AND THEN SCROLL THE NEXT "FOLLOW" BUTTON INTO VIEW

const FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT = 'Follow' // CHANGE "FOLLOW" TO LOCALIZED LANGUAGE AS DISPLAYED ON INSTAGRAM
const MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW = 3 // MAXIMUM # OF ATTEMPTS

const followSomebody = () => {
    const followButton = document
        .evaluate(`//button[text()="${FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT}"]`, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null)
        .singleNodeValue
    if (followButton) {
        let attempts = 1
        while (attempts < MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW && !followButton) {
            console.log(`Attempted to find followButton but could not. Retry #${attempts++}`)
            followButton = document.evaluate(`//button[text()="${FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT}"]`, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue
        }
        if (attempts < MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW) {
            console.log('Found follow button. Scrolling and clicking ...')
            followButton.scrollIntoView(true)
            followButton.click()
        } else {
            console.log(`Retried ${MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW} times and didn't succeed`)
        }
        return false
    }
    return true
}

const timeout = (ms) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))

// INCREASE TIMEOUT IF NECESSARY TO AVOID RESTRICTIONS/LIMITS PER DAY
// 2 second intervals
const randomTimeout = () => (Math.floor((Math.random() * 10) + 1) * 2000)

const followEveryone = async () => {
    let shouldStop = false
    while (!shouldStop) {
        shouldStop = followSomebody()
        const followTimeout = randomTimeout()
        console.log(`Waiting ${followTimeout} seconds. Should stop: ${shouldStop}.`)
        await timeout(followTimeout)
    }
    console.log('You cannot follow anymore.')
}

// Run 3 times
for (let i = 0; i <= 3; i++) {
   // Wait 10 minutes between each loop
   timeout(600000)
   for (let i = 0; i <= 40; i++) {
      followEveryone()
   }
}

Just wrapping the followEveryone() function in several for loops

Hi @chaodonghu
Great code! Anyway, I have a question. How do I modify the script so it follows 40 accounts at a two-second interval and then it waits for 10 minutes before following another 40 accounts again? I'd like the loop to repeat three times. So it goes:

1. Follow an account and wait for 2 seconds X40
2. Wait for 10 minutes
3. Follow an account and wait for 2 seconds X40
4. Wait for 10 minutes
5. Follow an account and wait for two seconds X40
6. ---LOOP ENDS---

Thank you very much.

Hey @kevindrummond1,

The code is designed so there is only a single timeout, I think following 80 accounts within 80 seconds will probably get you rate-limit blocked by instagram.

But you can probably do something like this

// RUN WITH GOOGLE CHROME
// 1. OPEN INSTAGRAM
// 2. CLICK ON "FOLLOWERS" OR "FOLLOWING" ON A DESIRED USER'S PROFILE
// 3. OPEN DEVELOPER TOOLS BY RIGHT CLICKING ON PAGE AND CLICKING "INSPECT"
// 4. COPY FOLLOWING CODE AND PASTE IN DEVELOPER TOOLS CONSOLE AND RUN
// 5. SCRIPT WILL NOT RUN IF TAB IS NAVIGATED AWAY FROM, MINIMIZED OR UNFOCUSED
// IT IS RECOMMENDED TO OPEN A NEW CHROME WINDOW OR PUSH TAB TO THE SIDE AND LET SCRIPT RUN IN BACKGROUND

// SCRIPT WILL CLICK ON "FOLLOW" BUTTON AND THEN SCROLL THE NEXT "FOLLOW" BUTTON INTO VIEW

const FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT = 'Follow' // CHANGE "FOLLOW" TO LOCALIZED LANGUAGE AS DISPLAYED ON INSTAGRAM
const MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW = 3 // MAXIMUM # OF ATTEMPTS

const followSomebody = () => {
    const followButton = document
        .evaluate(`//button[text()="${FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT}"]`, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null)
        .singleNodeValue
    if (followButton) {
        let attempts = 1
        while (attempts < MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW && !followButton) {
            console.log(`Attempted to find followButton but could not. Retry #${attempts++}`)
            followButton = document.evaluate(`//button[text()="${FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT}"]`, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue
        }
        if (attempts < MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW) {
            console.log('Found follow button. Scrolling and clicking ...')
            followButton.scrollIntoView(true)
            followButton.click()
        } else {
            console.log(`Retried ${MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW} times and didn't succeed`)
        }
        return false
    }
    return true
}

const timeout = (ms) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))

// INCREASE TIMEOUT IF NECESSARY TO AVOID RESTRICTIONS/LIMITS PER DAY
// 2 second intervals
const randomTimeout = () => (Math.floor((Math.random() * 10) + 1) * 2000)

const followEveryone = async () => {
    let shouldStop = false
    while (!shouldStop) {
        shouldStop = followSomebody()
        const followTimeout = randomTimeout()
        console.log(`Waiting ${followTimeout} seconds. Should stop: ${shouldStop}.`)
        await timeout(followTimeout)
    }
    console.log('You cannot follow anymore.')
}

// Run 3 times
for (let i = 0; i <= 3; i++) {
   // Wait 10 minutes between each loop
   timeout(600000)
   for (let i = 0; i <= 40; i++) {
      followEveryone()
   }
}

Just wrapping the followEveryone() function in several for loops

Thank you @chaodonghu . I'm wondering at what condition the script stops following. Because every time it initiates a new loop, it writes 'You cannot follow anymore.'

Hi @chaodonghu
Great code! Anyway, I have a question. How do I modify the script so it follows 40 accounts at a two-second interval and then it waits for 10 minutes before following another 40 accounts again? I'd like the loop to repeat three times. So it goes:

1. Follow an account and wait for 2 seconds X40
2. Wait for 10 minutes
3. Follow an account and wait for 2 seconds X40
4. Wait for 10 minutes
5. Follow an account and wait for two seconds X40
6. ---LOOP ENDS---

Thank you very much.

Hey @kevindrummond1,
The code is designed so there is only a single timeout, I think following 80 accounts within 80 seconds will probably get you rate-limit blocked by instagram.
But you can probably do something like this

// RUN WITH GOOGLE CHROME
// 1. OPEN INSTAGRAM
// 2. CLICK ON "FOLLOWERS" OR "FOLLOWING" ON A DESIRED USER'S PROFILE
// 3. OPEN DEVELOPER TOOLS BY RIGHT CLICKING ON PAGE AND CLICKING "INSPECT"
// 4. COPY FOLLOWING CODE AND PASTE IN DEVELOPER TOOLS CONSOLE AND RUN
// 5. SCRIPT WILL NOT RUN IF TAB IS NAVIGATED AWAY FROM, MINIMIZED OR UNFOCUSED
// IT IS RECOMMENDED TO OPEN A NEW CHROME WINDOW OR PUSH TAB TO THE SIDE AND LET SCRIPT RUN IN BACKGROUND

// SCRIPT WILL CLICK ON "FOLLOW" BUTTON AND THEN SCROLL THE NEXT "FOLLOW" BUTTON INTO VIEW

const FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT = 'Follow' // CHANGE "FOLLOW" TO LOCALIZED LANGUAGE AS DISPLAYED ON INSTAGRAM
const MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW = 3 // MAXIMUM # OF ATTEMPTS

const followSomebody = () => {
    const followButton = document
        .evaluate(`//button[text()="${FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT}"]`, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null)
        .singleNodeValue
    if (followButton) {
        let attempts = 1
        while (attempts < MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW && !followButton) {
            console.log(`Attempted to find followButton but could not. Retry #${attempts++}`)
            followButton = document.evaluate(`//button[text()="${FOLLOW_BUTTON_TEXT}"]`, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue
        }
        if (attempts < MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW) {
            console.log('Found follow button. Scrolling and clicking ...')
            followButton.scrollIntoView(true)
            followButton.click()
        } else {
            console.log(`Retried ${MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_FOLLOW} times and didn't succeed`)
        }
        return false
    }
    return true
}

const timeout = (ms) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))

// INCREASE TIMEOUT IF NECESSARY TO AVOID RESTRICTIONS/LIMITS PER DAY
// 2 second intervals
const randomTimeout = () => (Math.floor((Math.random() * 10) + 1) * 2000)

const followEveryone = async () => {
    let shouldStop = false
    while (!shouldStop) {
        shouldStop = followSomebody()
        const followTimeout = randomTimeout()
        console.log(`Waiting ${followTimeout} seconds. Should stop: ${shouldStop}.`)
        await timeout(followTimeout)
    }
    console.log('You cannot follow anymore.')
}

// Run 3 times
for (let i = 0; i <= 3; i++) {
   // Wait 10 minutes between each loop
   timeout(600000)
   for (let i = 0; i <= 40; i++) {
      followEveryone()
   }
}

Just wrapping the followEveryone() function in several for loops

Thank you @chaodonghu . I'm wondering at what condition the script stops following. Because every time it initiates a new loop, it writes 'You cannot follow anymore.'

If you follow the function within shouldStop it will stop if it can't find a "Follow" button or if the # of max attempts is reached which is 3.

Hi @chaodonghu,
Sorry for disturbing you but can you take a look at my case?
capture
There are still many follow buttons but the script stopped at the beginning.
I don't know if google chrome have had any updates lately, because the last time I used the script, it had still worked great.
Thank you so much

@Kynv94 Would you be able to post it as a gif or video here by dragging and dropping the capture, i'm unable to access that google drive link.

@Kynv94 Would you be able to post it as a gif or video here by dragging and dropping the capture, i'm unable to access that google drive link.

here is the picture

@Kynv94 Yeah it looks like the script is unable to obtain the "Follow" button anymore, i've replicated your error. I'll try to have a fix by this weekend I'm a bit busy with work this week but will post once I can get a fix.

@chaodonghu thank you so much
pls tag me when you're done <3 <3 <3 xoxo
have a nice week

Hey @Kynv94,

Sorry for the delay. Just modified the code to grab the follow buttons and tested it out. It should be working again.

Thank you @chaodonghu so much (y) (y) (y)

Hi is this code still working ?!

Hi is this code still working ?!

Hi @D1rtyC0de, sorry for the late reply, the code should be working as of Dec 26 2023. I just updated the code.

Hi @chaodonghu, I just can't get my settings right... it would be very cool if you could help me :)

The above script setting follows me too quickly and in my opinion there is a risk of being banned.

How I would like it:
One follower per minute > 60 in one hour (limit) > break of 10 minutes > and this until a maximum of 300 followers are reached per day.

How should I move forward? Can you please help me?

peace

@alpsn You would have to change the variables

const FOLLOW_LIMIT = 300;
const BREAK_DURATION = 10 * 60 * 1000; // 5 minutes break

const TOTAL_DURATION = 60 * 60 * 1000; // 60 minutes duration

...

const FOLLOW_INTERVAL = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10 + 1) * 60000; // Runs once every minute

The above script setting follows me too quickly and in my opinion there is a risk of being banned.

You won't get banned, instagram will usually detect that theres some scripting going on in your account and you might get locked but you will just be required to reset your password.