InstaDUB Documentation

Documentation for InstaDUB - Instagram bot / automation software


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Mass Actions

Mass actions tend to cause some confusion, how are they different to normal actions. The mass actions are intended to bulk perform a single item using multiple accounts.

For example, you want to use 100 of your accounts to like a specific post, making the post appear more popular. You want to use 100 accounts to follow a profile, because that person has paid you to give them 100 followers.

Each item you process will have it's own action. So, if you specify a text file of 10 profile URLs to Mass Follow, you will end up with 10 actions, one action for each profile to mass follow.

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Upload Specified Images

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To upload specified images from a folder, enter the path to the folder in the box at the top left of the tab, or to select the folder, click the button "...". To import the images, click the ADD button.

Your images will now appear in the IMAGE LIST, you should see the FILENAME column shows the file name and the CAPTION column is empty. There are various ways to give your images captions.

Custom Caption per Image

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Double click the image and specify the exact caption

Randomised Token Meta Generation

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Click the ASSIGN META button to view the Meta Generation form. The box on the left is your caption and the box on the right is for your keywords. The box is spintax compliant and allows you to use the %kw% token. This token will be replaced by a random keyword that you specify in the keywords box on the right (one keyword per line). A random caption will be generated for each image

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Instances

The program can run multiple unique instances on a single machine. Each instance of the running program will use a separate database and be completely separate from other instances. The instances do not know of each other, cannot effect each other and cannot communicate with each other. Basically think of an instance as running on a separate machine.

To open multiple instances, use the menu:

FILE > NEW CUSTOM INSTANCE

For some info on custom db instances, check the thread https://rootjazz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=874

An instance can be opened by passing a single argument (the instance name) to the .exe. So if you want to open the instances up via an icon, create a shortcut of the .exe file from your c:program files folder. Then change the target to

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Tokens

Tokens are usable any and everywhere in the program.

Media tokens

#caption# #img-username# #img-user_id# #img-user-lastname# #img-user-firstname# #img-user-fullname# #img-link# #img-profile-url# #rand-user-link# #latest-user-link# #location#

User Tokens

#bio# #username# #user_id# #user-lastname# #user-firstname# #user-fullname# #profile-url# #rand-user-link# #latest-user-link#

Default Tokens

#blog# #my-firstname# #my-lastname# #my-fullname# #my-username# #my-website# #my-bitly-website# #my-bitlyrand-website# #my-rand-link# #my-latest-link# ((bitly)http://domain.com) ((bitly-rand)http://domain.com)

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Post Images via RSS feed

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Posting images from RSS is similar to posting images from a folder with regards to the basic settings. The only differences are:

  • Ignore words
  • Include words
  • Assign RSS meta

Ignore / include words allows you to try and filter in / out what images should be posted. Perhaps you do not want to post all images from the feed, then you can specify to ignore images if the RSS meta values contain any specified words, or you can specify what words (include) must be present in order to post that image

Specify RSS Meta

In order to post images from an RSS feed, you must instruct InstaDUB how to find the image and caption. This is quite an advanced feature. You will need to know: XML / RSS formatting, Xpath and HTML.

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Account Settings

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Mobile Settings

Once you have added your accounts, you can view all the settings regarding the account by checking the box Mobile settings and Advanced settings. The mobile settings allow you to change the mobile properties of the mobile device you are using. Unless you know what you are doing, you probably don't want to be changing anything apart from:

  • Manufacturer
  • Model

If you did change the values and find things have stopped working, you can reset back to the defaults by clicking the link RESET MOBILE VALUES

NOTE:
InstaDUB automates the Android app, do not set iPhone specific values.....

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Add Account

Add Account

To add your account, there are two options.

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Using the Account Details form, or via Importing. If you want to add a single account, or just a few, the Account Details form is the best way.

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After adding your username, password (and optional proxy) your account will be validated. The program will attempt to login with the details provided. This will return successfully or fail. If the program cannot validate your account details, but you are sure they are correct, you can uncheck the option VERIFY ON SAVE. This will save your account but NOT attempt to validate the account.

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Single Action Per Account

When you first run the program, you may notice only one action will run for a single account at any one time. Even if you increase the threads. This is because the program is running in the safey mode of "process a single action per single account at any one time". This option can be turned on / off via the Settings tab.

The reason for having this on, is that it is not realistic for your account to be performing a 100 different actions at any one time. When a new user gets the app with no botting experience, without fail they think HARDER FASTER BETTER is the way to success. So we try to help them not get banned within the first week of using the software. For those of you who know what you are doing, you can disable this.

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Inbox

InstaDUB can scrape all your messages and conversions from your accounts' inboxes and display them in an easy to view list.

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Above you can see all the received messages for the selected accounts. Highlight is the <image> token, this is where a user has sent us a Direct Share Image. To view the image, you can highlight the image and click the VIEW IMAGE button, or double click the row to open that message in the Inbox Reply view, and click the view image link.

Pending

When a user sends you a message, if they are not in your authorised to send messages list, their message is in "pending". This is a different list to your received messages list. However, InstaDUB can still scrape this list, check the SCRAPE PENDING box and InstaDUB will scrape messages and pending messages. The pending messages will appear in the same list, but the pending column will be checked. Pending messages can be accepted manually by loading the pending message and clicking the accept link. Or Instadub can accept all pending messages when it scrapes, check the AUTO ACCEPT ALL PENDING link for this option.

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Getting started

If you haven't yet, please do check out the tutorial videos that guide you through adding your account and a quick run through of the major actions in the application. Click here for the Getting Start Video Tutorial series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSEncmyBWXs&list=PLnDmfYUM1jP7SrTiD2PLzBfETCK9G4plw

You can find more videos at our YouTube channel: https//youtub.com/rootjazzvideos

The program is quite straight: add your account, create actions for your account, run the actions in the processor. Actions are where everything takes place, you create them from the relevant "action tabs" where you specify what accounts to use, what items should be processed and any settings to apply to the action. When the action is created, it is sent to the Processor (also referred to as the processing tab). The processing tab lists all actions you have created. In order to "run" your actions, you have to turn the Processor ON, to do this, click RUN.

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NOTE: If all your actions are marked as WAITING, your processor is NOT on. Click RUN.

When your actions are running, you can view real time logs of the action by double clicking the action row. To run more than a single action at any one time, you would need to increase the THREAD, one thread can processor one action. To process 5 actions simultaneously, set 5 threads.

NOTE:
If you have increased the threads and still you are only processing one action, it is probably because you have the safety mode option on "process one action per account at any one time". This stops you processing multiple actions for the same account at any one time (this could be a give away you are using a bot). This option can be turned on / of via the SETTINGS tab.

Gotchas

If your actions are not running yet the processor is on and the actions are being rescheduled, it could be your WORKING HOURS are not allowing the actions to run. Working hours let you specify when the accounts can start new actions, you can set these from the Account Details Form (to view working hours controls, check the ADVANCED box.