Automating Instagram with InstaPy – The Official Guide
InstaPy is the biggest and most popular Instagram automation tool available for free. Its incredible range of features makes it the number one tooling to grow your account and target your core audience in the best possible manner.
By simulating human behaviour it is not only safer than most paid tools out there while being extremely efficient when it comes to reaching new people and accounts on Instagram. It can like, comment, follow, and many more interactions you would have to do yourself to reach a bigger audience.
Please note that this course is outdated and is no longer being updated!
Any purchase of this course will support me in my past and future efforts of creating tooling such as InstaPy.
Thank you!
You can get the watch the full course on my Youtube Channel: Tim Großmann
(Link in last lecture)
This is the official course to get you started with InstaPy, the biggest and most popular free open-source Instagram bot.
With nearly 300.000 views on the Medium article, this automation tool is ubiquitous when it comes to Instagram automation.
You will learn how to
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Organically grow your account with real followers
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Get more real engagement on your content
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Improve your posts and techniques for better growth
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Use the methods professional growth hacking companies use
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Use a code editor and python to create your very own bot
We’ll start from scratch with an introduction of the installation process on different platforms.
Once we’ve installed everything and made sure the bot is working, we will first look at the basic features to get a feeling for what the bot can do. We will talk about some of the limitations and make sure that we pick the right numbers.
Later in the course, we will also look at more complex logic that gives you even more power and allows you to really boost your account.
If you should encounter any problems along the way, there are dozens of people in the GitHub issues section of the InstaPy project that can help you in no time. The most common problems have already been reported so you can also search a huge list of already solved problems to fix yours.
After this course you will know how to
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Set up InstaPy on any popular platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, RaspberryPi)
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Write a nicely performing bot that organically grows your account
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Smartly target your core audience
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Become an Influencer (Nano/Micro/Macro) with your content in your selected area of expertise
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Use basic Python to setup your bot
Social Growth Basics
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IntroductionThis lesson gives you an insight into what this course will teach you and what you can do with InstaPy.
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Further Reading about InstaPyThis first lesson will give you a short introduction about InstaPy, how it works, what it can and can't do and most importantly, how it can help you better reach your audience on Instagram
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How InstaPy works
Get a really basic understanding on what InstaPy does and how it works.
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What to do when encountering issues
If you should face any issues, feel free to use any of the established channels for help.
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Getting started with InstaPy
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Regular posting
One of the most basic techniques to make people engage with your content.
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Being personal
Being personal and interacting with your audience in an authentic way is crucial to building a community.
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Tagging big accounts
Tagging big accounts is a key strategie for growth and visibility.
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Interacting with new accounts
Interacting with new accounts is key to getting more visibility.
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Interacting with followers of similar accounts
Even more powerful than interacting with random accounts is interacting with the followers of accounts that post similar content to you.
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Sending direct messages
Sending direct messages can increase your business opportunities but in most cases users simply see it as spam.
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Pods (DM Groups)
Engagement Pods are one of the most common ways of boosting initial engagement on posts to improve ranking.
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Wolf Groups (Engagement Groups)
We're looking at the biggest available engagement groups, wolf groups.
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Additional Reads
Read up on additional interesting techniques and statistics to develop the perfect growth strategy
The official InstaPy GUI
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Installing Python
This video will quickly show you where and how to download and install the latest version of python.
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Installing Chrome
We will go through the basic process of installing Google Chrome on your system.
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Installing Brackets (Code Editor)
To effectively edit python files we need a code editor, Brackets is simple and free to use.
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Installation on Windows
This video will cover the installation of InstaPy on Windows using the quickstart repository and in the later part of the video, the command line tool.
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Installation on Mac
This video will cover the installation of InstaPy on MacOS using the quickstart repository and in the later part of the video, the command line tool.
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Installation on Linux
This video will cover the installation of InstaPy on Linuxusing the quickstart repository.
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Installation on DigitalOcean (Server)
This video will cover the installation of InstaPy on a Virtual Server using the quickstart repository.
Building your first bot
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Notes on the GUI
Installation link, Text based steps to install and run the GUI.
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Introducing the InstaPy GUI
Understand what the GUI is useful for and who created it.
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Setting up the GUI
Quickly understand how to install the necessary tooling and how to start the GUI.
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Creating templates
Understand how to create new templates that replace the quickstart files.
Additional information
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Understanding the quickstart.py file
Understanding the quickstart.py structure and how to add new methods is crucial to using InstaPy without a GUI.
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How to use the documentation
Knowing how to use the documentation is extremely important. InstaPys documentation is easy to use and provides examples for every feature.
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Using the templates
We provide you with a variety of tested templates for your convenience. You will learn how to use them in this video.
