Auto-Follow Instagram Profiles via Phantombuster and SharePoint

## Who's it for Community managers, growth hackers, and brands that want to grow their Instagram audience by automatically following new, relevant profiles while respecting daily limits. ## How it works / What it does 1. **Schedule Trigger** runs hourly at a specified minute. 2. **Select Cookie** chooses a rotating Instagram session-cookie (time-slice logic). 3. **Get List of Accounts** downloads a CSV of seed profiles from SharePoint. 4. **Follower Collector Agent** (Phantombuster) fetches each seed profile's followers (limit set by `ENV_AMOUNT_FOLLOWERS_PER_PROFILE`). 5. **Autofollow Agent** follows up to `ENV_PROFILES_TO_PROCESS` of those followers per launch. 6. **Wait** nodes pause between Phantombuster calls and poll until each run is complete. 7. Rate-limit configuration keeps follows between 1 and 40 per hour. ## How to set up 1. Add credentials: Phantombuster API, SharePoint OAuth2, (optional) OpenAI API key if you later add AI. 2. In SharePoint “Phantombuster” folder add: - `instagram_session_cookies.txt` - one cookie per line. - `accounts_to_follow.csv` - header `profileUrl`, one seed profile per line. 3. Update **Set ENV Variables** to control profiles/launch and followers/profile. 4. Adjust schedule frequency or Wait durations to meet your plan limits. 5. Activate the workflow; it will follow new profiles every hour. ## Requirements - n8n 1.33 + - Phantombuster Growth plan (API access) - Microsoft 365 SharePoint tenant ## How to customize - Scrape hashtags instead of followers: replace the Follower Collector agent with a Hashtag-to-Profiles agent. - Increase speed: raise `ENV_PROFILES_TO_PROCESS` and cron frequency (ensure you stay within Instagram limits). - Swap SharePoint for Drive/Dropbox by replacing storage nodes.

Platform
n8n
Category
Social Media
Price
$14.99
Creator
plemeo

How to import this workflow into n8n

  1. 1Purchase or download the workflow to get the n8n workflow JSON file.
  2. 2In your n8n instance, open Workflows and choose "Import from File" (or paste the JSON with Ctrl+V on the canvas).
  3. 3Open each node marked with a credential warning and connect your own accounts and API keys.
  4. 4Run the workflow once manually to verify the data flow, then toggle it to Active.

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