Unfollow Users who aren't following you.

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Hello, i have wrote a little code to unfollow users who aren’t following you. Can you please take a look at it, and maybe add it as a template or you can critique and improve it.

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A meaningful section of your code (else delete this). If you are using TypeScript replace js with typescript.

const { IgApiClient } = require('instagram-private-api');

const ig = new IgApiClient();

ig.state.generateDevice(process.env.USERNAME);

(async () => {
    await ig.simulate.preLoginFlow();
    /*
     Logging in to account
     */
    const auth = await ig.account.login(process.env.USERNAME, process.env.PASSWORD);
    const followersFeed = ig.feed.accountFollowers(auth.pk);
    const followingFeed = ig.feed.accountFollowing(auth.pk);
    const followers = [
        ...await followersFeed.items(),
        ...await followersFeed.items(),
    ]
    const following = [
        ...await followingFeed.items(),
        ...await followingFeed.items(),
    ]
   /*
     Making a new set of all user usernames 
     */
    const users = new Set(followers.map(({ username }) => username));
    /*
     Filtering the ones who aren't following you back
     */ 
    const notFollowingYou = following.filter(({ username }) => !users.has(username));
    /*
     Loop through eash and unfollowing them.
     (suggested change by nerix)
     */
    for (const user of notFollowingYou) {
        await ig.friendship.destroy(user.pk);
        console.log(`unfollowed ${user.username}`)
    }
})();

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Can you please take a look at it, and maybe add it as a template or you can critique and improve it.

This really depends on the account you’re doing this with.

Just to note: In the inapp followers-page, you can select accounts you don't follow back, however it’s not supported in this library.

const followers = [
    ...await followersFeed.items(),
    ...await followersFeed.items(),
]
const following = [
    ...await followingFeed.items(),
    ...await followingFeed.items(),
]

Don’t do this. This is only possible if you know how many followers the account has. You should use a function. It can be generic over the item of a feed. Here is an example (Comment).

notFollowingYou.forEach((user) => {
    ig.friendship.destroy(user.pk);
    console.log(`unfollowed ${user.username}`)
});

This code works but it will probably break if there are too many users,

1. Use a for-each loop and await

for (const user of notFollowingYou) {
    await ig.friendship.destroy(user.pk);
    console.log(`unfollowed ${user.username}`)
}

1. Optionally add a try-catch to handle errors
2. Optionally add a delay between too many requests