InstaPy-Docker 🐳

Table of contents

1. Running InstaPy with docker
2. Running InstaPy with docker-compose

Running InstaPy with docker

• If you previously ran InstaPy the classical way you have to mount InstaPy logs folder, which is by default saved in your home directory ~/InstaPy, into the container otherwise you will loose all your previous data
• Copy the quickstart example file from docker-compose directory to get started
• Edit the file docker_quicktart.py to personalize how InstaPy will interact. All functions are the same than the classic installation mode. If you are new to InstaPy, we strongly suggest to have a look to InstaPy documentation to fully understand this file and how to modify it. Keep in mind all InstaPy functions should start with bot. when running with Docker.
  • Complete functions documentation
  • Some quickstart examples
• Start InstaPy container

docker pull instapy/instapy:latest && \
docker run --name instapy \
  -v /absolute_path_to_file/docker_quickstart.py:/code/docker_quickstart.py \
  -v /absolute_path_to_file/InstaPy:/code/InstaPy \
  -d instapy/instapy:latest

Example:

docker pull instapy/instapy:latest && \
docker run --name instapy \
  -v /home/myuser/docker_quickstart.py:/code/docker_quickstart.py \
  -v /home/myuser/InstaPy:/code/InstaPy \
  -d instapy/instapy:latest

• Stop InstaPy container
  docker stop instapy
• Remove InstaPy container
  docker rm instapy
• Display InstaPy output logs
  docker logs -f instapy or docker logs --tail 50 -f $(docker ps -a | grep instapy | cut -d " " -f 1)
• Using specific version of InstaPy
  By default, you will use the latest version of InstaPy. For some reasons, if you want to run a specific version you could with adapting the starting command (see above) by replacing both latest with the desire released version of InstaPy. It will then start a container of InstaPy with the corresponding version.

Running InstaPy with docker-compose

• Clone this repository
  git clone https://github.com/InstaPy/instapy-docker.git
• Change your directory to docker-compose
  cd docker-compose
• If you previously ran InstaPy the classical way you have to move InstaPy logs folder, which is by default saved in your home directory ~/InstaPy, into the current folder otherwise you will loose all your previous data
  mv ~/InstaPy .
• Copy the quickstart example file to get started
  cp -a docker_quickstart.py.example docker_quickstart.py
• Edit the file docker_quicktart.py to personalize how InstaPy will interact. All functions are the same than the classic installation mode. If you are new to InstaPy, we strongly suggest to have a look to InstaPy documentation to fully understand this file and how to modify it. Keep in mind all InstaPy functions should start with bot. when running with Docker.
  • Complete functions documentation
  • Some quickstart examples
• Start InstaPy container
  docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d --build web
• Stop InstaPy container
  docker-compose stop web
• Stop and remove Docker configs
  docker-compose down
• Display InstaPy output logs
  docker logs -f instapy_web_1 or docker logs --tail 50 -f $(docker ps -a | grep instapy_web | cut -d " " -f 1)
• Automatically run InstaPy or run it at a speified time (Example below: run it everyday at 8:30AM)
  • Edit your crontab file
  • Add 30 8 * * * root cd /path_to_repo/docker-compose/ && docker-compose up -d --build
• Using specific version of InstaPy
  By default, you will use the latest version of InstaPy. For some reasons, if you want to run a specific version you have to edit docker-compose.ymlfile and replace latest with the desire released version in the line image: instapy/instapy:latest. It will then start a container of InstaPy with the corresponding version.