instagram-insights

The first part of a small instagram analytics tool.

At the moment just the "Fake Friends Finder" application. Which will display accounts that follow your account but have not liked a single picture of yours. Great for finding "Fake Friends", "Fake Accounts" and "Follow to get attention Accounts".

Setup

1. git clone 'https://github.com/SirBenedick/instagram-insights.git'
2. cd instagram-insights
3. virtualenv env (make sure you are using python > 3.4)
4. source env/bin/activate
5. pip install -r requirements.txt
6. retrive instagram cookie data and add to insta/config.py
7. python web.py
8. http://127.0.0.1:5000
9. enjoy

To-Do

• add login function to extract cookie automatically
• "is private" error message
• data export of the results
• do analytic stuff

Why

Project based learning seems to be the most efficent way of grasping a new topic. During this Project I learned alot about the following:

• HTTP Requests
• AJAX
• Cookies
• Flask
• Websockets
• Javascript
• Data manipulation in python