ig-comment-backup

Backup of instagram comments to mongodb.

Disclaimer: Please Note that this is a research project. I am by no means responsible for any usage of this tool. Use on your own behalf. I’m also not responsible if your accounts get banned due to extensive use of this tool.

Add node modules

yarn install

Project setup

This script will create mongod.conf file and all mongo folders where the DB will be saved

yarn setup

Start mongo

yarn mongo:start

Additionally it is possible to stop mongo with yarn.

yarn mongo:stop

Cron script

You need to create a script to be executed by the cron task. This script will define environment variables of the Instagram image to backup and the DB path where the comments are saved.

#!/bin/sh
CRON=true MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost CODE=PHOTO_SHORTCODE /usr/local/bin/node index

NOTE: node path should be absolute and point to the node bin file in the file system

Cron setup

This is how to setup a cron job to execute the script

Edit crontab with nano

env EDITOR=nano crontab -e

Create cron job

This scrip will execute at minute 0 every two hours.

0 */2 * * * cd PATH_TO_FOLDER && ./CRON_SCRIPT.sh

Check if cron job is saved

crontab -l