Changelog

The goal of this file is explaining to the users of our project the notable changes relevant to them that occurred between commits.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.4.2] - 2019-04-15

Fixed

Fail of whole pod run on exception

[0.4.1] - 2019-04-06

Added

Support for split database with -sdb flag to avoid SQLite lock up

Fixed

"Failed to find login button" when trying to login (add KEYS.ENTER to submit login data)

[0.4.0] - 2019-04-03

Added

Improved info provided by log messages in instapy.py and like_util.py
Possibility to skip non bussiness accounts

Changed

Remove docker from core, moved into instapy-docker repo
Remove quickstart templates and only reference instapy-quickstart
Restructure README and add new DOCUMENTATION file

Fixed

"UnboundLocalError: local variable 'tag' referenced before assignment" when there is no smart-hastag genereated
xPath to dialog_address

[0.3.4] - 2019-03-17

Added

(re) add page_reload, after cookie load, on login_user()

Fixed

"Failed to load desired amount of users" when trying to read long follower lists

[0.3.3] - 2019-03-14

Added

Add additional exception catch to Login check

Changed

Set language on the browser (no clicks required)

Fixed

Get_active_users hotfix

[0.3.2] - 2019-03-12

Fixed

Hot fix problems with browser abstraction class

[0.3.1] - 2019-03-12

Fixed

Removed retry decorator

[0.3.0] - 2019-03-11

Added

Allowing follow_by_tags to interact with the user
Context manager to interaction calls in like_by_tags and follow_likers
Engagement pods feature 🙌
Smart Hashtags based on locations set_smart_location_hashtags
Verify action for unfollow and follow actions
Browser abstraction and Decorator that handles Selenium Browser exceptions by reloading
Add delay unfollow of follow backers

Changed

Expose threaded_session of Instapy.end()

Fixed

follow_likers always fetches zero likers
Prevent division by zero in validate_username

[0.2.3] - 2019-03-01

Changed

Made Log in text checking more resilient

[0.2.2] - 2019-02-21

Fixed

Chromedriver requirement now >= 2.44 instead of == 2.44

[0.2.1] - 2019-02-21

Fixed

xPath for Log In button

[0.2.0] - 2019-02-18

Added

Accept pending follow requests for private account
Feature to follow_by_locations
Proxy Authentication support for Firefox

Fixed

Only import instapy-chromedriver package when needed
Avoid user errors providing user names with caps
Fix get_active_users wrong behavior on videos
Bug in CLI argparsing - proxy_port & page_delay are integers and not strings.
Selectors for finding comments and liking comments on posts
Temporarily turn off follow for like_by_tags interaction

Changed

Enable users interact by the comments of their own profiles.
Moved elements from docs folder to instapy-docs and instapy-research repositories

[0.1.3] - 2019-02-05

Fixed

Fix "Failed to load desired amount of users!" issue.

Added

Add Progress Tracker to get_users_through_dialog() function.
Add Proxy Authentication for Firefox

[0.1.2] - 2019-02-04

Fixed

Fix for scrollIntoView error.

[0.1.1] - 2019-02-04

Added

Workspace folders; Now user's data files will be stored at the workspace folder.
InstaPy has been published to PyPI; Now, can install/manage it by pip as instapy package.
Github releases has been initiated; Will be released in-parallel with PyPI deployments.
Add Universal Testing Framework- tox with pytest & flake8.
Upgrade Travis CI usage (tox as build script).
Send messages to Discord #status channel about jobs' build states from Travis CI.
Add instapy-chromedriver package if no chromedriver is in path.
Add argparsing feature. Users are now able to provide credentials (and more) through CLI args.
Turn off verification based on relationship bounds by default, completely (see #757815f commit).
Simplify the default quickstart script much more.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-27

Changed

Add track post/profile
Avoid prints for only one user

Fixed

No posts exception when scraping likes

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-22

Added

Now set_dont_unfollow_active_users() feature also has a Progress Tracker support.

Fixed

Fix set_dont_unfollow_active_users() feature completely.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-17

Changed

Optimizing Dockerfile for smaller docker image.

Fixed

Fix "Unable to locate element: ...xpath","selector":"//div[text()='Likes'..." error.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-16

Fixed

Fix "Failed to load desired amount of users!" issue.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-15

Fixed

Handle A/B-Test for comments (graphql edge).

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-13

Fixed

Adjust docker-compose.yml according to new Dockerfile.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-11

Fixed

Correctly mount Docker volume, make it work properly with chromedriver installed in assets folder.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-10

Added

Feature to remove outgoing unapproved follow requests from private accounts.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-05

Changed

Resolve security warning with new pyyaml version, updated pyyaml to version 4.2b1.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-04

Fixed

Fix for non-authenticated proxies in chrome headless browser.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-02

Fixed

User without timestamp will use the timestamp of previous user.

[Unreleased] - 2019-01-01

Changed

PEP8 layout changes.

[Unreleased] - 2018-12-17

Added

A new setting - set_do_reply_to_comments() to control replying to comments.
A new feature - run_time() to get information of how many seconds the session is running; Added to "Sessional Live Report" and can also be manually requested like session.run_time() from quickstart scripts, any time.

Changed

A few visual changes to source code for PEP8 compliance.
Rename set_reply_comments() to set_comment_replies() out of revised design.

Fixed

Fix bug off #3318 which hit python 2 saying, "TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'" (raised & solved at #3451).
Fix error occured while liking a comment (raised at #3594).
Fix Follow-Likers feature which couldn't fetch likers properly (raised at #3573).

[Unreleased] - 2018-12-16

Added

Save account progress information into database adding the possibility for external tools to collect and organize the account progress.

[Unreleased] - 2018-12-10

Fixed

Fix person_id missing in post_unfollow_cleanup() [line 1152].

[Unreleased] - 2018-12-08

Fixed

Remove https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/{}/info/ as it not working and killing the unfollow with error.
Fix logging uncertain having no userid nor time log, will be important for sync feature.
Fix get active users when Video have no likes button / no posts in page.

[Unreleased] - 2018-12-08

Added

Full docker-compose and complex template + documentation.

Fixed

Fixes likers_from_photo when liked counter is "liked by X and N others".

[Unreleased] - 2018-12-06

Fixed

Fix for python 2.7 users, ceil returns a float in python 2.

[Unreleased] - 2018-12-05

Added

Added mandatory_language (updated check_link definition in like_util).

Fixed

Add self.aborts for the follow followers and follow following because otherwise InstaPy won't exit properly on them.

[Unreleased] - 2018-11-28

Added

A new feature - Interact By Comments to auto-like comments, auto-reply to them, etc. (see README).
New text analytics - MeaningCloud Sentiment Analysis API & Yandex Translate API (Language Detection & Translation) integrated into InstaPy for doing sophisticated text analysis (see README).

Changed

Speed up logging in at least 25 (default page_delay) seconds (see #ee6acba commit).
Upgrades to live_report() feature ("Sessional Live Report" uses it..). Now it is more smarter.
Lots of visual changes to source code for PEP8 compliance.
Modify check_authorization() to dismiss redundant navigations to profile pages. The gain is a few seconds (~2-3) saved which is so good.

Fixed

Fix a little misbehaviour in set_relationship_bounds() with min_posts & max_posts. Now enabled parameter controls the whole setting.
Update grpcio package's version in requirements.txt to 1.16.1. Its 1.16.0 had a bug duplicating logger messages.

[Unreleased] - 2018-11-26

Changed

Switch mandatory_words from ALL to ANY.

[Unreleased] - 2018-11-22

Fixed

Added location to image_text in the check_link() method of like_util.py, so the script also searches for the mandatory words in location information.

[Unreleased] - 2018-11-17

Fixed

"Cookie file not found, creating cookie..." bug fixed.

[Unreleased] - 2018-11-07

Changed

Maintain names: 'person' for target user and 'username' for our running user.
Verify private users in get_links_for_username.
Changed behaviour of validate_username to check if a user is included in the blacklist. If yes will skip it and log why.

[Unreleased] - 2018-11-01

Added

Interact with tagged images of users, and validation of a user to be optional.
Use Clarifai to check video content. By default deactivated and should only be used if necessary.

[Unreleased] - 2018-10-29

Added

This CHANGELOG file to hopefully serve as a useful resource for InstaPy fellas to stay up-to-date with the changes happened so far.
Custom action delays capability (see README).
Now follow engine has the same compact action verification procedure used in the unfollow engine.
Lots of stability in action verification steps which are held at newly added verify_action function.
New quickstart templates from 11 different people shared at #3033.

Changed

Now "already followed" state is being tracked by the following status result rather than catching a NoSuchElementException.

Fixed

Stale element reference error raised at #3173 (occured after #3159).
Invalid like element issue (occured after IG introduced comment liking to its web interface).

[0.1.0] - 2016-10-12

Added

Working version with basic features.
Use Clarifai to check the images for inappropriate content.

Please, don't dump raw git logs into this file - which is intended for users rather than developers.