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

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

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

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