GoInstaIRCBot is a IRC Bot that you can control and interacts with Instagram

Okay, who doesn't love IRC bots? ...... hummm, noone? Okay I do! I grew up within IRC World

Features

• AutoMessaging: It will automatically send direct messages to contacts, you can configure what to send.
• CHATBOT automation: If someone responds to you message, you can have a full conversation based on Google DialogFlow chatbot framework.
• AutoFollowing: It will automatically follow new people based on biography preferences and name preferences.

Package installation

go get -u -v github.com/alejoloaiza/goinstaircbot

Package dependencies

• For Instagram interaction.

• go get -u -v github.com/ahmdrz/goinsta

• For Google Dialog Flow Chatbot.

• go get -u -v cloud.google.com/go/dialogflow/apiv2
• go get -u -v google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/cloud/dialogflow/v2

• For ORM with PostgreSQL Database.

• go get -u -v github.com/jinzhu/gorm

Config file

You must provide a config file fullpath as unique argument to the program. Here you can find a guide on how to set up your config file.

Commands

Once your bot is configured an joins a channel, you can talk to him on channel or on private message, this are the commands:

1) !cmd init follow <number of new followers>

• <number of new followers> give a limit number of followers you want to add. Try not to add more than 150 contacts by day (Or Instagram will block you).

• Once the bot receives this command, it will start doing this steps:
• a) Check the contacts you are following and the media of those contacts.
• b) Check if that media has likes, and see if those likes belong to people with names listed withing the config parameter PreferredNames.
• c) Check if that contact has any of the words present in the config parameter BiographyPreference.
• d) It will start following the contact that matches with those preferences.

2) !cmd init message <number of messages>

• - <number of messages> give a number of new messages you want to send.
• Once the bot receives this command, it will start doing this steps:
• a) Check all the contacts that already have been messaged before (Direct message inbox).
• b) Send the defined message on config variable OpeningLine to the following contacts that were not messaged before.

3) !cmd init chatbot

• Once the bot receives this command, it will start doing this steps:
• a) Every once a while will check if someone has responded any of his messages.
• b) If someone responded, it will respond again based on a chatbot flow defined in Google Dialog Flow and mapped to this application with the config variables DialogFlowProjectID and DialogFlowLangCode.