How to Get a huge number of followers using getFollowers function without reaching the Server request Limit

[khanakhun]

const Instagram = require("instagram-web-api");
require('dotenv').config();
const FileCookieStore = require('tough-cookie-filestore2')

const cookieStore = new FileCookieStore('./cookies.json')

const { username, password } = process.env;

const client = new Instagram({ username, password , cookieStore });

client.login();

// to getting userId by Username
const getUserId = async (username) =>{
let userId;
await client.getUserByUsername({username: username}).then( user => {
userId = user.id;
});
return userId;
}

// getting User FollowersofUser
const getFollowersCount = async (username) => {
let count;
let userName;
await client.getUserByUsername({ username:username }).then(user =>{
userName = user.id;
})

await client.getFollowers({ userId: userName, first: 20, after: end_cursor }).then(followers => {
count = followers.count
})
return count;
}

// Timer
const sleep = (ms) => {
return new Promise( resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))
};

let followersofUser = [];

// Get Followers Data
const getFollowersData = async (userName) => {

let UserToFind = await getUserId(userName);
let count = await getFollowersCount(userName);
let end_cursor;

while(followersofUser.length <= count){
await client.getFollowers({ userId : UserToFind , first: 20 , after : end_cursor }).then(followers => {
followers.data.forEach(function(value){
followersOfUser.push(value);
});
end_cursor = followers.page_info.end_cursor;
sleep(4000)
})

}

return followersofUser;
};

let followersData = getFollowersData('mira.ibiza');
console.log(followersData);

module.exports = {
getFollowersData
}

[MonsieurBibo]

Hey, as said in many previous issues, Instagram does have some rate limits for their Web API. It seems to be 200 requests/hour.

1 request every 4000 ms equals 900 requests an hour, you need to slow down your requests.