Source: http://medium.freecodecamp.com/my-…-followers-for-5-in-server-costs-e40491358340

My open source Instagram bot got me 2,500 real followers for $5 in server costs

A few months ago, I started a side project to learn Python and Selenium WebDriver at the same time. I just wanted to see whether I could get a few Instagram followers. But when I first ran the script, I was amazed by how effective even my rough first version was.

By just liking a few images of some given tags, I got likes, comments, and even a few followers.

When I added commenting and following functionality, the numbers went up like crazy.

At first I ran my script on my laptop. But this was pretty annoying, since I had to keep my terminal open all the time.

I started with 180 followers, and when I reached 350, I modified my script to periodically run on a server. That’s when things got even sweeter.

Before I get into the story behind my library, InstaPy, I want to point out that it’s:

• free
• open source
• easy to use
• inexpensive to host

If you want to give it a try, all the code you need to use it is up on GitHub.