Pick a random winner from any public Instagram post — no login, no API keys, no fuss.

Available in English & Spanish 🇺🇸🇪🇸

• 🔓 No authentication required — works with any public post
• 💬 Extracts all comments — top-level + replies via multi-pass GraphQL scraping
• 🖼️ Real profile pictures — served through a local reverse proxy (no CORS issues)
• ❤️ Real like count — extracted directly from Instagram's SSR HTML
• 🌐 Bilingual UI — English / Spanish with one-click toggle (persisted in localStorage)
• 🎰 Roulette animation — smooth, decelerating spin before revealing the winner
• 📱 Responsive — works on mobile, tablet, and desktop

• Node.js v18+
• npm

git clone https://github.com/andresayac/instapick.git
cd instapick
npm install

npm start

Then open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

For development with auto-reload:

npm run dev

All results are de-duplicated by comment pk (Instagram's comment ID).

Instagram blocks direct hotlinking of CDN images. The server includes a local reverse proxy at /proxy/image?url=... that:

• Fetches images server-side with proper Referer headers
• Serves them to the browser from localhost — zero CORS issues
• Caches responses for 1 hour

Extracted from Microlink's metadata (which parses Instagram's Open Graph tags), with a fallback regex on the description field ("351 likes, 421 comments...").

instagram-giveaway-picker/
├── server.js        # Express backend: API extraction, image proxy, static serving
├── index.html       # SPA entry point with i18n data-attributes
├── script.js        # Frontend logic: fetch, render, roulette animation
├── i18n.js          # Translation strings (ES/EN) + language switcher
├── style.css        # Dark glassmorphism UI + responsive layout
└── package.json

The application uses standard environment variables. You can configure it by creating a .env file in the root directory (see .env.example):

PORT=4000

If not specified, the server will default to 3000.

Other internal configurations live in server.js. Key constants:

doc_id: '26248690958161038'      // PolarisPostCommentsPaginationQuery
doc_id: '26914912424764761'      // PolarisPostChildCommentsQuery
maxPages: 30                      // pages × 50 comments = max per pass
delay: 300-500ms                  // between requests (avoids HTTP 429)

Translations are in i18n.js. To add a new language:

translations.fr = {
    title: 'Tirage au sort Instagram',
    // ... all keys from the ES object
};

Then update the switchLang() cycle in i18n.js.

MIT — free to use, fork, and modify.

• Microlink — Open Graph metadata extraction
• Font Awesome — Icons
• Google Fonts — Outfit typeface