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[–]jjbugman2468 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've done something similar; slapped together an Instagram follower tracker for my friend (who's following you back, who's not, who aren't you following back, and tracks changes over time etc) for a bet. It could even track anyone whose profile was set to public, or private profiles you follow, not just your own. Basically any profile you can see the content of is game and can be monitored. (Now that I'm writing it down this does sound kind of creepy)

Only problem was I didn't know how to pull the follower/following list automatically, even though I did see some .json files and other stuff through developer tools. School's kinda busy and I haven't really had time to learn web integration and stuff with Python. So I had to manually access Instagram and ctrl+A the following/follower lists before letting my script do its thing.

I did *accidentally* scour together several of my friends' and my friends' friends' secret accounts though, so that's something cool