Automatic & Targeted Instagram Mass Story Viewer

Instagram influencers discovered a new way to increase their number of followers. This technique is called mass story viewing (or mass story looking). Have you ever seen Russian Instagram accounts with thousands of followers watching your insignificant stories?

This method has become popular because contrary to follow-unfollow or spam comments, mass looking is not known to be very sanctioned by Instagram (Instagram can suspend or delete your account if there are suspicious activities).

A real business has emerged around the mass story viewing. For example, I’ve seen a site that offers mass looking services for $155 per month. It’s very expensive and not accessible for everyone.

Today we will see how to write a cheap (free) and accessible script for everyone (you still need to know how to program) using Python3 and its instabot library.

User targeting

Before start, you need to connect instabot to your Instagram account with :

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import instabot
bot = instabot.Bot()
bot.login(username=YOUR_USERNAME, password=YOUR_PASSWORD)

Our first goal is to obtain a list of users who might potentially be interested in our content. There are many filter to target users on Instagram :

• by location:

  1	bot.get_geotag_users(LOCATION)

• by hashtag:

  1	bot.get_hashtag_users(HASHTAG)

• by a user followers:

  1	bot.get_user_followers(USER_ID)

All these methods return a list of the user ids targeted by the filter.

Story viewing

instabot really makes story viewing easier with the method bot.watch_users_reels(USER_ID), which takes a user id as a parameter and returns a boolean that represents the success of the viewing.

It’s therefore very easy to combine user targeting with story viewing taking the hashtag filter:

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for id in bot.get_hashtag_users("hashtag"):
	bot.watch_users_reels(id)

I’ve written a complete script to target users for a clothing store, with a cool console display to impress your friend :

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import instabot
import time
from os import system, name 

def clear(): 
    if name == 'nt': 
        _ = system('cls') 
  
    else: 
        _ = system('clear') 

HASHTAGS = ['fashion', 'style', "model", "shopping", "dress"]
SLEEP_TIME_BETWEEN_MAIN_LOOP = 5 * 60
SLEEP_TIME_BETWEEN_HASHTAG_LOOP = 60
USERNAME = YOUR_USERNAME
PASSWORD = YOUR_PASSWORD

bot = instabot.Bot()

bot.login(username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD)

# MAIN LOOP
while True:
    try:
        for hashtag in HASHTAGS :
            clear()
            # GET USERS FROM HASHTAG
            users = bot.get_hashtag_users(hashtag)
            for id in users:
                # WATCH USER STORIES
                if bot.watch_users_reels(id):
                    bot.logger.info(f'Instagram user: {id}, Total stories viewed: {bot.total["stories_viewed"]}')
            bot.logger.info(f'Sleeping for {SLEEP_TIME_BETWEEN_HASHTAG_LOOP} seconds...')           
            time.sleep(SLEEP_TIME_BETWEEN_HASHTAG_LOOP)
        bot.logger.info(f'Sleeping for {SLEEP_TIME_BETWEEN_MAIN_LOOP} seconds...')           
        time.sleep(SLEEP_TIME_BETWEEN_MAIN_LOOP)

    except Exception as e:
        bot.logger.info(e)
        time.sleep(SLEEP_TIME_BETWEEN_MAIN_LOOP)

It’s a script that can run on a machine 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to watch thousands upon thousands of stories and has rest periods to avoid detection of suspicious activity by Instagram. You can also use a proxy to avoid problems with your account.

Introducing pre-made tools for mass Instagram story visits

Certainly, there are also pre-made tools that don’t cost much and can get you out of script troubles. One of the best examples of these tools is the virtual user massive Instagram story visit bot. This bot can work in two ways:

1. You introduce multiple accounts to this bot and the bot will visit your desired story with each of these accounts to increase the visits for the story.
2. The bot will automatically visit your following stories with your account; thus, it increases your interaction with others on Instagram and draws their attention to your profile.

Needless to say, be careful that the more charming your profile picture is, the more probable your profile will be viewed (among the visitors of a story) and the more useful and professional content you have published on your page, the more likely it is to attract likes, comments and the following for your page will increase.

For more information on how the bot works visit the following link: Auto Instagram Story Viewer Bot.