mifi / mifi/SimpleInstaBot

Only like (or follow) "engaged" users on target accounts

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A considerable number of followers on target accounts are fake. It would be great to focus what limited access we have (requests/follows/likes per day, etc) to requests on users who are proven engaged. Meaning, they not only follow our target accounts but like (and comment on) their posts.

Describe the solution you'd like
An option to run likes/follow on only the users who've engaged with posts (stories/reels) by the target account. Commenters and likers on Stories, Reels and Posts.

Describe alternatives you've considered
The alternative would be doing this manually.

Additional context
Some of the target accounts I follow have clearly purchased 40-60% of their followers. This is a waste of time. Bots liking bots.

Also, have you explored migrating to playwright? This might be a better issue for your lib. I've used puppeteer and the puppeteer-extra package to avoid detection quite a bit (and with sensitive targets using "sophisticated" bot detection). It seems like playwright is almost never detected as long as it's being used from a reputable IP/connection.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. First trace the existing target-account like/follow flows and how the bot accesses engagement on Stories, Reels, and Posts; done means those actions can be limited to users who liked or commented on target-account content.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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