Trying to make a Instagram bot with playwright (no API)

June 22, 2025, midnight - journal

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One day I thought "why not making a meme instagram page where it follows everybody from meme pages? that also unfollows and post". It wasn't that hard, Instagram did not block playwright stuff, just had to use a browser profile so it does not ask for 2FA everytime. The main problem is when Instagram changes the UI it messes up the HTML locators, making it shit to maintain. The code below for it is all yours: code