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Instagram Bulk Follow & Unfollow Automation

Automate Instagram follow and unfollow actions from usernames or profile URLs. Choose one action for the entire run or configure actions per profile. Uses proxy-backed, cookie-authenticated sessions and returns structured results for successful, skipped, and failed actions.

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You can access the Instagram Bulk Follow & Unfollow Automation programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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Instagram Follow & Unfollow Automation Tool OpenAPI definition

OpenAPI is a standard for designing and describing RESTful APIs, allowing developers to define API structure, endpoints, and data formats in a machine-readable way. It simplifies API development, integration, and documentation.

OpenAPI is effective when used with AI agents and GPTs by standardizing how these systems interact with various APIs, for reliable integrations and efficient communication.

By defining machine-readable API specifications, OpenAPI allows AI models like GPTs to understand and use varied data sources, improving accuracy. This accelerates development, reduces errors, and provides context-aware responses, making OpenAPI a core component for AI applications.

You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Instagram Bulk Follow & Unfollow Automation from the options below:

OpenAPI.json

If you’d like to learn more about how OpenAPI powers GPTs, read our blog post.

You can also check out our other API clients:

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