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Growing on Instagram is a difficult and time-consuming job if you are already not a famous personality. I started my food blogging page @_.interwined_dodos._ (do check it out and follow me there) and faced these challenges in growing. Some of the very common challenges I have faced were: Interacting with all community throughout the day is a difficult job Instagram blocks the like, comment, follow and unfollow actions if you are over interactive in a short span of time Following and engaging with new people of same or different community(again a time-consuming job) Being a lazy yet ambitious person, I wanted to grow on Instagram but didn't want to spend much time on it. Here is when my developer mind kicked in and I thought of automating this stuff and my journey of this automation lead me to blogs related to selenium and then to my destination Instapy . InstaPy is a tool developed to automate Instagram tasks using Selenium and the brain. It has a large variety of actions that ca

Hi, This will be an introduction to writing a Twitter Bot to reply to conversations for Beginners. I will be using  Python for coding the Bot. Twitter Bot are a common these days and are used for different purposes, one may use bot for his/her personal account to reply for the tweets  mentioning them  or one may use them to follow some user and retweet their tweets . Twitter provides  huge set of functionality through its APIs .You can nearly perform all the tasks that can be performed on the twitter site through these APIs. And good part is that they provide it for free. Getting API keys from twitter Create a Twitter app to get the credentials which can be done at  https://apps.twitter.com/  . On successful creation of an app select your app and you will be redirected to app page: You will be provided with following credentials  which can accessed through keys and access tokens tab: Consumer Key (API Key) Consumer Secret (API Secret) Access Token Acce