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Hey guys, welcome to day 52

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of 100 Days of Code. Today

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I've got yet another pretty fun project for you.

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It is a Instagram follower bot.

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So here's the thing is. Have you ever felt a little bit lonely?

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Have you ever wanted more friends? Well, I can't really get you more friends,

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but I could figure out a way of getting you more followers on Instagram.

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So recently I was talking to a Instagram consultant.

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This is somebody who actually advises businesses and startups on 

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how they can build their Instagram presence.

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And they've worked with a lot of successful companies.

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And one of the secrets that they shared with me,

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which I thought was really cool actually, is let's say that you are somebody

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who's trying to build a brand around cooking.

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So you could do is you could look at all the accounts on Instagram that are

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already, um, cooking related.

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One of my favorite probably to this day is a company called ChefSteps.

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They just have the coolest content and they have amazing YouTube videos with

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tutorials. And a lot of the stuff that they make are just gorgeous,

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like real molecular gastronomy and everything looks amazing.

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Let's say that you are trying to build a company where it was also doing

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something that was food related and you want to get more followers for your

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company. One of the ways that you could do it is if you think about it,

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if you find a company that has a similar demographic or a similar audience to

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yours,

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basically people who like food or people who like cooking, well,

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what you could do is you could go to their Instagram account and then look at

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their followers.

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And then you can go through this list of people who follow ChefSteps and follow

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each of these accounts. Now, for a lot of these people,

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they are small individuals who are just interested in cooking or food.

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So if you have something that's food related and you're following somebody,

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then they might notice you as well. And in turn,

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you'll probably get more followers. So I thought this was a really cool idea

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and it's something that's really ripe for automation,

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because who wants to go through a list of 247,000 people and click on each of

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these buttons. Nobody, right?

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So we're going to do this using code. More specifically,

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Selenium and Python. Here's what it looks like when I run my code.

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It's gonna log into Instagram automatically

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and then it's going to go to the account that I want to replicate followers for.

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And then it's going to click on that link followers

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and it's going to start following each of these individual accounts one by one

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automatically. And you can see my mouse is nowhere near there.

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<v 1>Yeah.</v>

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<v 0>That's the goal for today. If you're building a business,</v>

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if you're building a startup or if you're building your own custom brand,

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or if you just want more followers on Instagram,

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this might be something that you would be interested in.

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And it definitely helps you tap into some new skills with Selenium and Python.

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So once you're ready,

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head over to the next lesson and put your skills to the test.