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Mass unfollow users on Instagram (no app needed)
  • Go to your profile on instagram.com (sign in if not already)
  • Click on XXX following for the popup with the users you're following to appear
  • Open Chrome Devtools and Paste the following into the Console and hit return:
(async function(){
  const UNFOLLOW_LIMIT = 800
  const delay = (ms) => new Promise(_ => setTimeout(_, ms))
  const findButton = (txt) => [...document.querySelectorAll("button").entries()].map(([pos, btn]) => btn).filter(btn => btn.innerHTML === txt)[0]

  console.log("Start")
  for (let i = 0; i < UNFOLLOW_LIMIT; i++) {
    const $next = findButton("Following")          
    if (!$next) { continue }
    $next.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded()  
    $next.click()
    await delay(100)
    $confirm = findButton("Unfollow")    
    if ($confirm) {
      $confirm.click()
    }

    await delay(20 * 1000) // Wait 20s, 200 unfollows per hour limit
    console.log(`Unfollowed #${i}`)
  }

  console.log("The end")
})()
@MahanKdi
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MahanKdi commented May 6, 2025

I have re-written it to sort iron some issues out with how fast it was unfollowing people (and not all of it registering), here is my version for anyone interested : https://github.com/FaisalAhmed123/Instagram-Unfollow/blob/main/main

I'm new can you please tell me how to use this.

@kmt9967
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kmt9967 commented May 19, 2025

@MahanKdi , Just Log into the Instagram on web browser . open the following list
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Then go the the browser settings and open up the dev tools
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Select Console , and copy paste this code there
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Here's the working code :

(async function(){
  const UNFOLLOW_LIMIT = 800
  const delay = (ms) => new Promise(_ => setTimeout(_, ms))
  const findButton = (txt) => [...document.querySelectorAll("button").entries()].map(([pos, btn]) => btn).filter(btn => btn.innerText === txt)[0]

  console.log("Start")
  for (let i = 0; i < UNFOLLOW_LIMIT; i++) {
    const $next = findButton("Following")          
    if (!$next) { continue }
    $next.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded()  
    $next.click()
    await delay(100)
    $confirm = findButton("Unfollow")    
    if ($confirm) {
      $confirm.click()
    }

    await delay(20 * 1000) // Wait 20s, 200 unfollows per hour limit
    console.log(`Unfollowed #${i}`)
  }

  console.log("The end")
})() 

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