Open sourced my instagram helper web extension

Hi IH,

after getting positive feedback from a few users on /r/instagram I thought I'd open source my web extension with which I am growing my own account with.

Here's what it does:

• Displays the amount of (followers/following) in front of the username

• Highlights accounts which you are following in yellow

• Highlights accounts which are following you in yellow

• Marks private accounts blue

• Marks accounts blue which haven't posted anything on IG for the last 30 days. Reasoning: Engaging with their very old content often comes weird and not worth the effort.

• Marks accounts red which follow too many accounts. Reasoning: It's rather unlikely for your content to stand out amongst 500+ other accounts.

• Marks accounts red which follow almost the same amount of their followers. Reasoning: Probably follow-for-follow account with minuscule engagement from their part.

• Marks accounts green which have a low amount of following and follower which usually means they are a normal person. These accounts show the highest likelihood of engagement because your content will stand out more if you are competing with less other accounts in their following list.

Only engage with green accounts if you value your time

Current hard-coded settings:

• Most recent post is older as 30 days: blue

• Follower / Following or Following / Follower ratio is between 0.9 and 1.0: red

• More than 1000 followers (maybe celebrity account): red

• Follows more than 500 accounts: red

You can find it here and adjust the settings to your liking in content.js: https://github.com/martinschleiss/instagram-helper

Pretty much hacked together but it does the job very well if you don't want to use bots.

Also make sure to not overuse it. You'll notice it when the extension can't query the account information anylonger. IG then returns 429 status codes and you'll have to let it chill for a while.