Automating an Instagram Account’s Content Curation and Posting.

Why? Just because.

This project was an exploration into the possibility of easy money on Instagram. The plan was simple: I make an account that gathers and posts content itself, which should build followers without much effort, and profit off advertising on the account. If you manage an Instagram account this may actually be interesting to you. Posting on a regular basis although easy, is not build-it-and-leave-running-for-months easy, until now.

Part one: Making (err..Grabbing) The Content

You may already have a bunch of content ready to go for your account. If so, awesome! But if you’re like me, a talent-less dry well of creativity, you’re going to have to bend some rules. In the code below I am scraping google images for pictures of space with selenium, and python:

This alone is something you cannot just find on google, so you’re welcome (only half kidding). Note that you will have to modify the file directory to match something on your machine. If you have never used…