Instagram Auto Liker: Like Posts by Username, Location & Hashtag

Auto like Instagram posts and reels from your own account: the newest posts of the accounts you choose, the newest posts people tagged at any place, and the newest posts under any hashtag. Paste your Instagram session, pick your targets, run it or put it on a schedule. This Instagram like bot presses Like the way a person would, with random pauses, and charges you only for likes that were verified on Instagram.

Three ways to target, in one run:

• 👤 Usernames: like the newest posts and reels of creators, prospects, clients or partners.
• 📍 Locations: like the newest posts people tagged at a café, gym, mall, beach, neighborhood, or a whole city like Austin, Texas. Reach locals and visitors of any area. Find location links in seconds at places.nosite.app: 9.7 million places in the USA, Europe and Egypt.
• #️⃣ Hashtags: like the newest posts under #yourniche, in any language.

For locations and hashtags you choose Newest posts (minutes to hours old, from people active right now) or Top posts.

Typical uses:

• Get discovered by people near your business: like the newest posts tagged at your neighborhood, nearby venues or your city
• Warm up creators, prospects or customers before you DM them
• Engage with a niche every day through its hashtags
• Keep an account active while you are away
• Support an outreach or lead generation workflow with real engagement signals

Quick start

1. Step 1: Your Instagram session. Log in to instagram.com in Chrome, press F12, open Application > Cookies > https://www.instagram.com, copy the value of the sessionid row and paste it in. (Firefox: the Storage tab.)
2. Step 2: Choose your targets, any mix of:
   • 2a: Track usernames: natgeo, @natgeo or https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/, one per line. A post or reel link likes just that post.
   • 2b: Track locations: Instagram location links, one per line (see how to get them).
   • 2c: Track hashtags: cairocafe or #cairocafe, one per line.
3. Click Start. Everything else has safe defaults.

Watch the 50 second walkthrough: How to export your Instagram cookies

The session box takes whatever you paste: just the sessionid value, a name=value; ... cookie string, a JSON export from Cookie-Editor, EditThisCookie or Puppeteer, a cookies.txt file or rows copied from the browser's cookie table. If what you pasted is not a session, the run stops right away and tells you how to copy the right value. Your session is only used inside the run and is never stored. Do not log out of that browser afterwards, because logging out ends the session.

Liking posts at locations

Put one Instagram location link per line into Step 2b: Track locations (click Bulk edit to paste many at once), choose Which posts at each location (Newest or Top) and Posts to like per location.

Two ways to get location links:

1. From our free Place Finder: places.nosite.app. Search 9.7 million places in the USA, Europe and Egypt by country, state, city, area and neighborhood on a map. Add the places you want, or a whole city's own Instagram tag, click Copy for Apify, and paste. Missing a place? Add it there with its Instagram link.
2. From Instagram itself, for any place in the world:
   • On a computer: open a post tagged at the place, click the place name under the username, and copy the address. It looks like https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/106224666074625/austin-texas/.
   • In the app: tap the place name on a post, then ⋯ → Copy link.

Any form of the link works: with or without /recent/ or /top/, ?hl= or share parameters, or just the number. For a whole city or country, use its busiest tag (the one with the most posts).

Liking posts under hashtags

Put one hashtag per line into Step 2c: Track hashtags (cairocafe, #cairocafe, or a hashtag in any language like #القاهرة), choose Which posts under each hashtag (Newest or Top) and Posts to like per hashtag. Hashtag posts are liked one at a time, each on its own page, with the same random pauses as everything else. Specific hashtags (#zamalekcafe) reach people better than huge ones (#love).

Newest or top posts

• Newest posts (Recent), the default: posts from minutes to hours ago, by people who are active right now and most likely to notice your like and visit your profile.
• Top posts: the most popular posts, often weeks old and already full of likes.

How it works

1. Opens Instagram in a real browser with your session cookies (no password needed) and checks you are really logged in. If Instagram shows the login page or a checkpoint, the run stops, explains how to fix it, and charges no likes.
2. For each account, location or hashtag, it reads the newest (or top) posts, then likes them one at a time like a person browsing: it opens a post, waits a random pause, presses Like, and moves on to the next post with the arrow, just like you would in the app.
3. A like only counts once Instagram confirms it (the heart turns red). Posts you liked earlier are skipped, for free.
4. It stops on its own at the first sign of trouble: an "Action Blocked" dialog, or likes that silently stop registering. The remaining targets are marked so you know to wait.
5. If Apify moves the run to another server mid-way, it continues where it was: nothing is visited, written or charged twice.

Input

Field	Description
session_id	Your Instagram session: the sessionid value or any cookie export (see Quick start).
influencers	Step 2a. Accounts to like, one per line. @name, profile links and post links are accepted.
posts_per_user	Newest posts to like on each account (default 2).
places	Step 2b. Instagram location links (or numbers), one per line, e.g. copied from places.nosite.app.
places_tab	recent (newest, default) or top posts at each location.
posts_per_place	Posts to like at each location (default 3, up to 50).
hashtags	Step 2c. Hashtags, one per line, with or without #.
hashtags_tab	recent (newest, default) or top posts under each hashtag.
posts_per_hashtag	Posts to like under each hashtag (default 3, up to 50).
max_likes_per_run	Step 3. Safety cap for the whole run (default 60, maximum 200). Need more? Schedule several runs a day, see below.
min_delay_seconds / max_delay_seconds	Advanced. Random pause between likes: min 2 to 10 seconds, max 4 to 16 seconds (default 3 to 8).
proxyConfiguration	Advanced. Optional Apify Proxy, only needed if Instagram keeps asking for verification.
instagram_cookies	Old field kept for saved tasks. New users can ignore it.

Targets run in this order: usernames, then locations, then hashtags, all inside the same Max likes per run.

Output

One dataset row per account, location and hashtag:

{
  "username": "place:106224666074625",
  "place_name": "Austin, Texas",
  "profile_url": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/106224666074625/",
  "status": "liked",
  "posts_found": 12,
  "likes_requested": 3,
  "likes_done": 3,
  "already_liked": 0,
  "liked_posts": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/jomo.n821/reel/DeiEX8jq9fi/",
    "https://www.instagram.com/dolphin.98814691/reel/DeiEXe8xwmy/",
    "https://www.instagram.com/jennsalaz/p/DeiEZ3AFtHV/"
  ],
  "error": null,
  "processed_at": "2026-10-16T00:49:39.002Z"
}

username is the account name, place:<id> for a location or tag:<name> for a hashtag. status is one of liked, partial, already_liked, no_posts, private, not_found, action_blocked, failed, limit_reached (not processed because the run hit Max likes per run), or setup_needed / login_failed when the session is missing or expired (the error column then says how to fix it). A run level SUMMARY record is stored in the key-value store.

Pricing

Pay per event. You are charged only for likes that were verified on Instagram.

Event	What it covers	Price (Free plan)	Paid plans
Like completed	One post newly liked and confirmed	$0.010	$0.009 to $0.007
Profile processed	One account, location or hashtag opened and its posts read, even when nothing could be liked (private, not found)	$0.002	$0.002
Actor start	Browser boot and session check, once per run per GB of memory	$0.010	$0.005

Examples: liking 2 posts on 30 accounts every day costs about $0.70 a day on the Free plan. 100 likes at locations and hashtags cost about $1. A failed login costs one Actor start only.

More than 200 likes a day: schedule several runs

One run likes at most 200 posts. That is about the most Instagram tolerates per day on an established account, and spreading likes over the day looks far more natural than one burst. To like more, or to engage every day without thinking about it:

1. Fill in the input as usual and click Save as a new task.
2. Open the task, go to Schedules and click Create new schedule.
3. Pick how often it runs, for example 3 runs a day at 9:00, 14:00 and 20:00 with max_likes_per_run set to 50 each.

Each run only charges for likes it actually made, and posts already liked by an earlier run are skipped for free, so overlapping schedules never double charge. With Newest posts, every run finds fresh posts at your locations and hashtags.

Staying safe

• Instagram tolerates roughly 100 to 200 likes per day on an established account. Keep max_likes_per_run low and schedule several small runs rather than one large one.
• Keep the default pauses (3 to 8 seconds). Faster runs are the main cause of action blocks.
• New or rarely used accounts get blocked much sooner. Warm them up manually first.
• Automation is against Instagram's terms of service. Use this on accounts you own and accept that Instagram may limit them.

FAQ

Is this an Instagram auto liker or a like bot? Both names describe the same thing: a tool that automatically likes posts on Instagram from your account. This one likes the newest posts of accounts, locations and hashtags you choose.

Can I like posts by location? Yes. Paste Instagram location links into Step 2b, from Instagram itself or from places.nosite.app, and the newest posts tagged there get liked.

Can I like posts by hashtag? Yes. Put hashtags into Step 2c. The newest (or top) posts under each hashtag get liked, one at a time.

Where do I find location links? At places.nosite.app (9.7 million places in the USA, Europe and Egypt, with a map) or on Instagram by tapping the place name on any post. Both are explained above.

Does it need my password? No. It uses the session from a browser where you are already logged in. Nothing is stored after the run.

Will it like the same post twice? No. Posts you already liked are detected and skipped, and skipped posts are not charged.

How many likes per day are safe? Roughly 100 to 200 on an established account. Keep the per-run cap low and schedule several small runs.

Why is one run limited to 200 likes? Larger bursts are the fastest way to get an account action blocked. Schedule several runs a day instead (see above).

Does it like reels? Yes, reels and regular posts are handled the same way.

Why did my run stop with "Action Blocked"? Instagram temporarily limited likes on your account. The actor stops immediately so it does not make things worse, also when Instagram blocks silently and likes simply stop registering. Wait 24 hours, then run with fewer likes per run.

My run says "Action needed" or login_failed. Your session is missing or expired. Log in to instagram.com again, copy a fresh sessionid (see Quick start) and paste it into Step 1.

Support

Open an issue on the actor page or email the developer through the Apify Console. Missing a place in Place Finder? Add it at places.nosite.app.