instascrape: super lightweight Instagram scraping toolkit

What is it?

instascrape is an incredibly lightweight set of tools geared towards scraping Instagram data. It makes no assumptions about your project and is instead designed for flexibility and developer productivity. It is excellent for the seasoned data scientist trying to quickly get an idea of a page's engagement as well as beginners looking to explore web scraping and the beauty of Python for the very first time.

Example of Instagram likes per post data scraped using instascrape (this repository and its author(s) are not affiliated with Real Python)

Installation

Minimum Python version

This library currently requires Python 3.7 or higher.

pip

Install from PyPI using

$ pip3 install insta-scrape

Clone

Clone right from Github to your local machine using

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Discussion on: 15, But Completed HacktoberFest, Here's how.

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Chris Greening • Oct 21 '20

Congratulations and keep up the great work! I've been programming for a few years now but this was my first Hacktoberfest and it was such a great experience, I learned so much lol

I have an open source Python Instagram web scraper I started at the beginning of Hacktoberfest, feel free to check it out if it's something you'd be interested in contributing to!

chris-greening / instascrape

Super lightweight Python 3 Instagram scraper for requesting and processing Instagram data

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Happy hacking!!!

Benji 🍙 • Oct 22 '20

Hi Chris, I've already completed Hacktoberfest but I'd still love to contribute & get involved. I've starred & forked it & will look around so hopefully see you on GitHub :)