Desktop & tooling
Grambot
Instagram housekeeping, automated with human-like timing.
- Role
- Sole author
- Period
- 2025
- Status
- Live
The problem
The maintenance half of running an account — scrolling the feed, viewing stories, pruning accounts that never followed back — is repetitive work that costs real time and produces nothing. Naive automation of it is worse than doing nothing: a script that fires actions at machine speed is a script that gets the account restricted.
The approach
Grambot drives a real browser through Playwright rather than an unofficial API, so the session it produces is an ordinary browser session. The behaviour patterns are the actual engineering: actions are paced and varied to resemble a person using the app, because the constraint is not what the automation can do but how quickly and how regularly it does it.
What it does
Real browser automation
Playwright drives a genuine browser session rather than calling a private API.
Everyday activities
Feed browsing, liking, story viewing and unfollowing accounts that do not follow back.
Human-like pacing
Timing and action patterns are varied deliberately rather than run at machine speed.