Welcome folks today in this post we will be scraping instagram posts and images without instagram api in python using instagramy library. All the full source code of the application is shown below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to install the following library using the pip command as shown below
pip install instagramy
After installing this library make an app.py file and copy paste the following code
Instagram User Details
First of all we will get the instagram user details in this python script
app.py
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 |
from instagramy import InstagramUser session_id = "38566737751%3Ah7JpgePGAoLxJe%334" # Connecting the profile user = InstagramUser('google', sessionid=session_id) # printing the basic details like # followers, following, bio print(user.is_verified) print(user.biography) |
Now if you execute the python script by typing the below command
python app.py`
Now if you execute this script it will tell you the biography and verified status of the user as shown below
Instagram HashTags Details
Now we will be writing the python script to scrape instagram hashtag details
app.py
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
from instagramy import InstagramHashTag session_id = "38566737751%3Ah7JpgePGAoLxJe%334" # Connecting the profile posts = InstagramHashTag('coding', sessionid=session_id) print(posts.number_of_posts) |
It will tell you the number of posts related to this hashtag
Instagram Posts Details
Now we will be scraping the details of the instagram post such as the author of post and likes of post and also some more details about the post such as images and videos
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 |
from instagramy import InstagramPost session_id = "38566737751%3Ah7JpgePGAoLxJe%334" post = InstagramPost('CLGkNCoJkcM', sessionid=session_id) print(post.author) print(post.number_of_likes) print(post.post_data) # More data about post as dict |
