InstaCat

Cats rule the internet, so why can't we rule the cats? This repository contains a script that posts fake cat images with computer generated description on Instagram.

You can see at what it can do here.

How does it work

This project is a fusion of This cat does not exist and Online GPT-2 text generator. It takes a cat image generated by Nvidia StyleGan2 and combines it with a cat realted text generated by the GPT-2 DeepAI model, adds some hashtags and posts it on instagram via instabot library.

Setup

Currently the repository aims for Ubuntu users, because of all the system paths and integration with bash.

To setup Python enviroment run:

virtualenv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install instabot

Then to add credentials add file credentials.py. It's content shall look like this:

username = "INSTAGRAM_USERNAME"
password = "INSTAGRAM_PASSWORD"
api_key = "DeepAI_API_KEY"

After that to setup automatic posting run crontab -e and add the following line to your crontab:

0 */4 * * * PATH_TO_REPOSITORY/run_upload.sh >> PATH_TO_REPOSITORY/logs.txt 2>&1

This will make your system run run_upload.sh script every 4 hours and save the logs in logs.txt. Note that the crontab will run the script only if the system is on, so the frequency of posting shall be tuned to computer usage.

Important

This repository has not been authorized by Facebook, DeepAI or Nvidia. Keep that in mind when trying out. Use at own risk. Just do not harm any kittens.