def get_followers(client: ApiClient, user_id: str,
limit: int) -> typing.List[models.User]:
"""Retrieve the first x amount of followers from an account.
If the `user_id` is not known, use `instauto.helpers.search.get_user_id_from_username`
to convert a username to user_id.
Args:
client: your ApiClient
user_id: the user_id of the account to retrieve followers from
limit: the maximum amount of followers to retrieve
Returns:
A list containing Instagram user objects (examples/objects/user.json).
"""
obj = GetFollowers(user_id)
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
followers = []
while result and len(followers) < limit:
followers.extend(result.json()["users"])
logger.info("Retrieved {} followers, {} more to go.".format(
len(followers), limit - len(followers)))
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
return [
models.User.parse(f) for f in followers[:min(len(followers), limit)]
]
def get_followers(client: ApiClient, user_id: str, username: str,
limit: int) -> typing.List[models.User]:
"""Retrieve the first x amount of followers from an account.
Either `user_id` or `username` need to be provided. If both are provided,
the user_id takes precedence.
Args:
client: your ApiClient
user_id: the user_id of the account to retrieve followers from
username: the username of the account to retrieve followers from
limit: the maximum amount of followers to retrieve
Returns:
A list containing Instagram user objects (examples/objects/user.json).
"""
if user_id is None and username is not None:
user_id = get_user_id_from_username(client, username)
if user_id is None:
raise ValueError("Both `user_id` and `username` are not provided.")
obj = GetFollowers(user_id)
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
followers = []
while result and len(followers) < limit:
followers.extend(result.json()["users"])
logger.info("Retrieved {} followers, {} more to go.".format(
len(followers), limit - len(followers)))
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
return [
models.User.parse(f) for f in followers[:min(len(followers), limit)]
]
def get_followers(client: ApiClient, user_id: str,
limit: int) -> typing.List[dict]:
obj = GetFollowers(user_id)
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
followers = []
while result and len(followers) < limit:
followers.extend(result.json()["users"])
logger.info("Retrieved {} followers, {} more to go.".format(
len(followers), limit - len(followers)))
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
return followers[:min(len(followers), limit)]
def get_followers(client: ApiClient,
limit: int,
user_id: Optional[int] = None,
username: Optional[str] = None) -> List[models.User]:
"""Retrieve the first x amount of followers from an account.
Either `user_id` or `username` need to be provided. If both are provided,
the user_id takes precedence.
Args:
client: your ApiClient
user_id: the user_id of the account to retrieve followers from
limit: the maximum amount of followers to retrieve
username: the username of the account to retrieve followers from
Returns:
A list containing Instagram user objects (examples/objects/user.json).
"""
if user_id is None and username is not None:
user_id = get_user_id_from_username(client, username)
if user_id is None:
raise ValueError("Both `user_id` and `username` are not provided.")
obj = GetFollowers(user_id)
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
followers = []
while result and len(followers) < limit:
# pyre-ignore[16]: the type of result is `Response` or bool, but because
# of the `result is True` check, it can only be of type bool here.
followers.extend(result.json()["users"])
logger.info("Retrieved {} followers, {} more to go.".format(
len(followers), limit - len(followers)))
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
return [
models.User.parse(f) for f in followers[:min(len(followers), limit)]
]
import random
import os
from instauto.api.client import ApiClient
from instauto.api.actions import friendships as fs
from time import sleep
if __name__ == '__main__':
if os.path.isfile('./.instauto.save'):
client = ApiClient.initiate_from_file('./.instauto.save')
else:
client = ApiClient(username=os.environ.get("INSTAUTO_USER")
or "your_username",
password=os.environ.get("INSTAUTO_PASS")
or "your_password")
client.log_in()
client.save_to_disk('./.instauto.save')
f = fs.GetFollowers(user_id="2283025667")
obj, result = client.followers_get(f) # grabs first page
while result: # paginates until all followers are extracted
parsed = result.json()
print(f"Extracted {len(parsed['users'])} followers")
print(
f"The username of the first extracted follower is {parsed['users'][0]['username']}"
)
obj, result = client.followers_get(obj)
sleep(random.randint(10, 60))
