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How do you scrape Instagram?

Manan Gouhari on March 21, 2020

Recently, there have been talks of Instagram closing down its API and leaving access to only corporate partners. Data scraping becomes even more i...

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Chris Greening • Oct 26 '20

Hello!!! I've been working on an open source library for scraping Instagram data you might find interesting at this repo. It scrapes the same JSON data you explored in your blog post with steps as easy as

from instascrape import Profile
manan = Profile.from_username('manan.code')
manan.load()

and that's it!! It scraped almost all the data points you can get from the data_json you were exploring. It has similar functionality for hashtags and posts as well, check it out :)

Manan Gouhari • Nov 21 '20

Oh that is great! I'll look into it for sure. Thanks for commenting about it.

restyler • Oct 4 '21

Great writeup, thank you! I've just published a simple tutorial on Instagram scraping and discovering micro-influencers via SQL.

How to scrape Instagram followers with Node.js, put results to MySQL, and discover micro-influencers

restyler ・ Oct 3 ・ 9 min read

#javascript #scraping #productivity

I will appreciate your feedback and comments.
Cheers!

nityagudi18 • Jul 16 '20

Hi,
Thanks for sharing this video.
I see that some accounts have the data we need at script tag 4, not 5. I am trying to scrape data for a list of users. How to extract search tag index and make this work for all users?

Harsh Vardhan Goswami • Apr 2 '20

Great boi

BobbyMoure • Mar 21 '20

How to understand scratching? Can I scratch Instagram?)

Manan Gouhari • Mar 22 '20

WUT EVEN DUDE ?