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Social-watcher allow you to watch twitter and instagram profiles.

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Social Watcher

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Social Watchers allows you to watch and record changes on Twitter and Instagram accounts. It can alert you the changes via Telegram.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

  • Internet Connection
  • Python 3.7+

Installing social-watcher

First, clone repository to local and install requirements. You can install requirements with pip3 install -r requirements.txt.
Then you need to edit configs.json.example as you wish and rename it to configs.json. At the end you can run watcher.py

Metrics

List of metrics which one watching.

Platform Metrics
Twitter name, followers, following, biography, profile_photo, tweets, likes, birthday, website
Instagram name, followers, following, biography, profile_photo, posts, is_private, is_verified

Customizing Configs

{
    "interval": 300, # general interval time, default is 86400 (1 day)

    "telegram": {
        "token": "9999999999:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", # telegram bot token
        "chat_id": "999999999" # telegram chat id
    },

    "instagram": [
        {
            "username": "bisguzar", # username, required

            "interval": 5, # interval for this watcher as seconds
                           # if not defined it uses general interval

            "only_if_changed": false, # not required
                                      # if false it will report you if no changes
                                      # default is true

            "ignored_metrics": ["profile_photo"] # not required, 
                                                 # it will ignore this metrics even is changed
        },
        {...another instagram watcher...},
        {...another instagram watcher...}
    ],

    "twitter": [
        {
            "username": "bugraisguzar", # username, required

            "interval": 30, # interval for this watcher as seconds
                            # if not defined it uses general interval

            "only_if_changed": false, # not required
                                      # if false it will report you if no changes
                                      # default is true

            "ignored_metrics": ["likes"] # not required, 
                                                 # it will ignore this metrics even is changed
        },
        {...another twitter watcher...},
        {...another twitter watcher...}
    ]
}

Contributing to social-watcher

To contribute to twitter-scraper, follow these steps:

  1. Fork this repository.
  2. Create a branch with clear name: git checkout -b <branch_name>.
  3. Make your changes and commit them: git commit -m '<commit_message>'
  4. Push to the original branch: git push origin <project_name>/<location>
  5. Create the pull request.

Alternatively see the GitHub documentation on creating a pull request.

Contributors

  • @bisguzar

Contact

If you want to contact me you can reach me at @bugraisguzar.

License

This project uses the following license: MIT.

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