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How to remove my own instagram followers with Python?

I want to remove my own instagram followers without blocking them, using python.
I have seen many, many, many, many instagram python libraries online that allow you to stop or start following a person, but that is not what I'm looking for; I don't want to remove who I am following or start following someone, I want to remove people who are following me.
I looked into the official documentation of Instagram's HTTP API trying to make my own solution, but I couldn't find the documentation of this action under any endpoint ( I assume it should be under /friends/ ).
I vaguely remember some library that used to do this, but I cannot find it. Does anyone know of a good way to achieve this, preferably via passing an inclusion/exclusion list for the followers I want to have as a result?

I found a solution in an old library that does something similar. You can't directly remove followers through most tools, but if you block and then unblock a user, the effect you want is achieved. Example code:
# https://instagram-private-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/instagram_private_api/endpoints/friendships.html
import instagramPrivateApi
# ...
# Implement a Client class that inherits FriendshipMixin
api = new Client()
api.friendships_block(uid)
api.friendships_unblock(uid)

Here is the API endPoint for removing a follower https://www.instagram.com/web/friendships/{user_id}/remove_follower/
You can do a post request on this URL with appropriate headers and that can do the job.

In python what is a response object returned from a website?

I'm trying to use the etsy API and I was finally able to get it running from the source. I gave it my key, and it returned the following when printed out.
<etsy._v2.EtsyV2 object at 0xb7284ccc>
However I have no idea what to do with it. The github-repo doesn't have much documentation, and the command that is suppose to follow doesn't work. I read the Etsy API and didn't find the mentioned command getFrontFeaturedListings like the github listed.
I've had this issue before with an HTTP response object and I was told to use response.content to check out more info on the object. It didn't work for this object so I'm wondering if there was a simple way to test any generic object, or at least see what this object contains?

When in doubt you can always use the dir built-in method on an arbitrary python object. This will show you methods and fields attached to the object. https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#dir
Anyway, sorry to hear about the poor documentation of the library. Last time I used Etsy's API I just created a little class that used requests. It wasn't much work since Etsy lays out all of the URIs + documentation nicely on their developer site. https://www.etsy.com/developers/documentation/reference/favoritelisting

Can facebook access token be used for someone else's data?

Does facebook allow to use one person's access token to fetch post info of another person (post comments, likes)?
I am thinking of implementing a pool of tokens in my app, so if token is broken I can use other persons token. Wondering if it's allowed and whether facebook have some restrictions on such a use case.
Additionally, I am currently using FQL, is there a difference for Graph API in how tokens work?

Short answer: It is not possible. That would be an incredibly large privacy problem anyway.
Also, for user postings you need the "read_stream" permission and you probably will not get this one approved:
This permission is reserved for apps that replicate the Facebook
client on platforms that don’t have a native client.
(https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.0)
About FQL: There is no difference, although keep in mind that FQL is deprecated and will be removed when support for v2.0 runs out. See this link for more information: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/versions#versioning
(thanx to Tobi for clarification)

Python Send to and figure out POST

Recently, I've been attempting to figure out how I can find out what an unlabeled POST is, and send to it using Python.
The issue of the matter is I'm attempting to make a chat bot entirely in Python in order to increase my knowledge of the language. For said bot, I'm attempting to use a chat-box that runs entirely on jQuery. The issue with this is it has no knowledgeable POST or GET statements associated with the chat-box submissions.
How can I figure out what the POST and GET statements being sent when a message is submitted, and somehow use that to my advantage to send custom POST or GET statements for a chat-bot?
Any help is appreciated, thanks.

You need a server in order to be able to receive any GET and POST requests, one of the easier ways to get that is to set up a Django project, ready in minutes and then add custom views to handle the request you want properly.

How to implement Google Suggest in your own web application (e.g. using Python)

In my website, users have the possibility to store links.
During typing the internet address into the designated field I would like to display a suggest/autocomplete box similar to Google Suggest or the Chrome Omnibar.
Example:
User is typing as URL:
http://www.sta
Suggestions which would be displayed:
http://www.staples.com
http://www.starbucks.com
http://www.stackoverflow.com
How can I achieve this while not reinventing the wheel? :)

You could try with
http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=keyword
and then parse the xml result.

I did this once before in a Django server. There's two parts - client-side and server-side.
Client side you will have to send out XmlHttpRequests to the server as the user is typing, and then when the information comes back, display it. This part will require a decent amount of javascript, including some tricky parts like callbacks and keypress handlers.
Server side you will have to handle the XmlHttpRequests which will be something that contains what the user has typed so far. Like a url of
www.yoursite.com/suggest?typed=www.sta
and then respond with the suggestions encoded in some way. (I'd recommend JSON-encoding the suggestions.) You also have to actually get the suggestions from your database, this could be just a simple SQL call or something else depending on your framework.
But the server-side part is pretty simple. The client-side part is trickier, I think. I found this article helpful
He's writing things in php, but the client side work is pretty much the same. In particular you might find his CSS helpful.

Yahoo has a good autocomplete control.
They have a sample here..
Obviously this does nothing to help you out in getting the data - but it looks like you have your own source and arent actually looking to get data from Google.

If you want the auto-complete to use date from your own database, you'll need to do the search yourself and update the suggestions using AJAX as users type. For the search part, you might want to look at Lucene.

That control is often called a word wheel. MSDN has a recent walkthrough on writing one with LINQ. There are two critical aspects: deferred execution and lazy evaluation. The article has source code too.