SOCMINT tool to get personal infos from an Instagram account via analysis of its followers and/or following

Last update: Dec 28, 2022

Overview

S T E R R A

🔭 A SOCMINT tool to get infos from an Instagram acc via its Followers / Following

Allows you to analyse someone's followers, following, and mutuals, with these functions:

📊 A probability function to determine the close social circle of your target,
📥 Export of the followers / following lists (with their details) to excel and csv,
ℹ️ More informations here.
💱 Check the WIKI for the detailed Usage.

Sterra have been recently updated to 2.1, with a lot of new features, but have not been tested on every systems. Everything works, but not handled bugs or errors could happen. If it happen to you, please report it to the Issues section. Thanks :)

♻️ Also a great alternative to Export List of Followers from Instagram, that has been killed.

Here is the result for the accounts followed by Mark Zuckerberg, then for Kylie Jenner :

🦺 Big changes are coming soon, curently working on the wiki for this new version, because it will be much complicated to use.

📥 Installation

Via PyPI

pip install sterra

Via GitHub

git clone https://github.com/novitae/sterraxcyl
cd sterraxcyl
python setup.py install
# if it fails, use via PyPI

📌 Notes

Here is a tutorial on how you can find your "sessionid".
If you want to extract lists without express mode, it will take a long time. I advise to do something else while the program does the job.
If your password contains special characters (and it should...) such as "!", you may enclose it between quotes.
It is better if you use an account made specially for the occasion. I do not recommend using your personnal account !
The account you will use must have 2FA disabled.
If the target account is private, you must be following it to extract data of it.
If instagram blocks you, i recommend using another account.
This program can be very powerful against most of instagram users, including big accounts: i tried it once one real account (with 250k followers), and it brought me very far. I'm not responsible of its misuse, but don't do shit with it.
The program doesn't work on GitPod.

➕ More

This program took me a lot of time; if you appreciate it, feel free to reward my work here:
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I will soon have no more time for coding during a certain period (because im joining army). Feel free to work on my program if you want to make it better.
If you want to help this project, here is a "to do" list:

Adding probabilities of interests in _pro.py file (actually there's just probabilities of being a personnal accounts)

Comments

KeyError: 'The input list must contain (at least) the key "id"'

Following the example on on the wiki: sterra compare F_ID_1 F_ID_2 --common-usernames

I have tried the full path to each of the files for comparison , also tried with the file ID's found listed in history for the files im trying to compare but both return KeyError: 'The input list must contain (at least) the key "id"'

Is this an issue or am I using it incorrectly?

opened by thenib 4
Export Does not work with Python 3.5 3.7 3.8 or 3.9 (did not test others)

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/exspir3/.local/bin/sterra", line 8, in sys.exit(main()) File "/home/exspir3/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/core.py", line 430, in main ret = globals()module.upper() File "/home/exspir3/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/core.py", line 87, in EXPORT scrape(t,l) File "/home/exspir3/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/core.py", line 38, in scrape .p(f"""{username}'s {targlist} usernames file exported under id: {str(bold(exporter([{"username":usn} for usn in flist],,**kwargs)()))}""",logo=logo_to_choose) TypeError: init() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'file_path' and 'Format'
bug

opened by ensingerphilipp 4
bunch of followers that i can't export

such a good tool! I have problem with exporting the followers username. i tested with 2 or 3 diffrent account several times but each time it's stop under 10000 usernames and i can't resume the exporting. part for exporting is not work for me. the error is: PrivateAccError: --username is a private account that you're not following. after this function didn't go forward and stop. i followed the account but it's not working.

opened by imankiyumarsi 3
HTTP Error 400 (Bad Request) on GraphQL Query.

Howdy! This looks really useful - getting this error though:

"HTTP Error 400 (Bad Request) on GraphQL Query. Retrying with shorter page length."

this is exact error: "anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/instaloader-4.8.1-py3.7.egg/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py", line 345, in get_json raise QueryReturnedBadRequestException("400 Bad Request") instaloader.exceptions.QueryReturnedBadRequestException: 400 Bad Request"

Thanks!

opened by hartmania 3
ERROR

When performing a search as sterra -u xxxxx -t followers, (xxxxx I replace it with a user) I get the following error

Unknown error, here is the response: {"message": "checkpoint_required", "checkpoint_url": "/ challenge / AXFDryCPIRfCXMzgUoVyguEOsXuhmBvRItoY27ajqfad1f7U-MaDLvlGFXsjnMnwgYVcr8A / OwJmxTBVrender:" flow "0", "lockty" status "flow" falsety} "lockty", falsety "lockty"} "flowtyVcr8A / OwJmxTBVrender:"

opened by ch4c4l 3

Got error for export

Hi,

I am getting the following error when I used the basic usage command: sterra export -ssid mysessid -u tgtuser -t following

The error I'm getting:

|§| Path /home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/export/ created.
|§| Path /home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/parts/ created.
|§| Path /home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/_history_.json created.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/bin/sterra", line 5, in <module>
    from sterra.core import main
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/core.py", line 10, in <module>
    from sterra.filerra import *
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/filerra.py", line 9, in <module>
    class exporter:
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra/filerra.py", line 10, in exporter
    def __init__(self, _:object, List:list[dict], file_path:str, Format:str, **kwargs:dict) -> None:
TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable

opened by mdhz 2

Newbie with problem executing sterra

Installed Sterra using pip and manually (git clone).

After running sterra, I get this:

Any help will be very appreciated.

(base) [email protected] ~ % sterra
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/me/opt/anaconda3/bin/sterra", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('sterra==2.2.1', 'console_scripts', 'sterra')())
  File "/Users/me/opt/anaconda3/bin/sterra", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
  File "/Users/me/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/importlib/metadata.py", line 77, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "/Users/me/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 843, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/Users/me/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra-2.2.1-py3.8.egg/sterra/core.py", line 10, in <module>
    from sterra.filerra import *
  File "/Users/me/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra-2.2.1-py3.8.egg/sterra/filerra.py", line 7, in <module>
    from sterra.exterra import exman
  File "/Users/me/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra-2.2.1-py3.8.egg/sterra/exterra.py", line 1, in <module>
    from sterra.histerra import file_id, add_part, add, get_part, match
  File "/Users/me/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sterra-2.2.1-py3.8.egg/sterra/histerra.py", line 79, in <module>
    def get_part(part_option:str=True) -> tuple[str,str]:
TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable

bug

opened by numerosos 1

Error

Hello! I have a error during the export of mutual followers. Attached the screenshot The text:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/sterra-2.1.4-py3.9.egg/sterra/core.py", line 84, in main raise IndexError IndexError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/sterra", line 33, in sys.exit(load_entry_point('sterra==2.1.4', 'console_scripts', 'sterra')()) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/sterra-2.1.4-py3.9.egg/sterra/core.py", line 131, in main _ins.tagram( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/sterra-2.1.4-py3.9.egg/sterra/_ins.py", line 340, in tagram mutuals = traction(ul=mutualList, sd=sssid, ai=ex, xp=ex, dl=dl).strt() TypeError: strt() missing 1 required positional argument: 'rtn'

.

opened by sai84 1
TargetException

Hey! When I scrape the followers of a specific account it starts but stops about 30-35% with that error message:

TargetException: Be sure that you are following the account you are aiming for if it is in private.

Is there anything I can do about it? Didn't you had a delay function in your script?

opened by pascallammers 1
Best way to reach out ?

Hi,

I find this project very interesting, what's your preferred channel for a private chat @novitae ? My org. is looking for specialists with your expertise.

Regards,

opened by everglad 1
login issue

Excited to give the new update a spin!!

Trying to work through this login issue: "Please check Instagram app for a security confirmation that it is you trying to login."

I keep acknowledging it was me but to no avail -- might be due to thinking it's a windows 10 phone (who has one of those, right?) -- if I figure it out will update....
NOT FROM STERRA

opened by hartmania 1
Rate Limit Error although followers extraction is completed

Hey,

I'm having an issue with resuming a "part" content, I'm using the following command syntax: sterra export -ssid xxx -u xxx -p xxx

When it hit 100% on the followers extraction, the "RateLimitError" showed, so I didn't use sterra for three days, (usually used it every 24h to finish the extraction phase) now when trying to resume the script with the syntax above - I'm still getting the "RateLimitError".

When using Instagram on mobile or web, I am able to use the search, like photos, follow etc... To make sure, I ran sterra again but without the "-p" flag using the following: sterra export -ssid xxx -u xxx -t followers and it started the process all over again, which meant it wasn't a rate-limit blockage.

Also, the "Getting users details" has been completed to 100% (then again rate limit).

opened by vitguld 8
Call sterra directly from python (#2)

Last issue was force closed, so here again. I tried the solution mentioned before. I have added the running of main here: https://pastebin.com/T3xdg2GG However, it just prints out the default print (not the export not with arguments). It is not calling the new parser() functions, just the old one.

All I want to do is to get followers directly from python and get a path to the file.

opened by MiniMinnoww 0
Error when exporting to csv

When exporting to a csv file using this command: sterra export -ssid {SSID} -u {Username} -t followers -f csv

I get an error saying UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 397-398: character maps to <undefined>

opened by MiniMinnoww 3
Add the ability to resume fetching the follow list

Noticed that when a rate limit occurs when fetching a list of usernames (and before hydrating the profiles), the state is not saved. The script restarts the fetch from the beginning the next time the script is run. This patch adds an option to resume from the last state similar to the existing feature for saving partial fetching of full profiles.

opened by priscillalam 0