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Igmapper: an Instagram Unofficial API

What is it?

Igmapper is a high-performance Python library designed for Instagram data extraction, providing structured access to profiles, feeds, and comments. It offers a flexible architecture that allows data engineers to toggle between Requests and native CURL transport, ensuring resilience against environment constraints.

Table of Contents

• What is it?
• Main Features
• Where to get it / Install
• Documentation
• License
• Dependencies

Main Features

Here are just a few of the things that igmapper does well:

• InstaClient: Initializes the session and handles transport selection (Requests or CURL)
  • get_profile_info(): Scrapes profile metadata and returns a structured ProfileData object.
  • get_feed(): Retrieves user timeline posts with built-in pagination support.
  • get_comments(): Fetches media comments and automates cursor-based pagination.

Where to get it / Install

The source code is currently hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/lucasoal/igmapper

[!WARNING] It's essential to use Python 3.10 version

• PyPI

   # PyPI
   pip install igmapper
  

• GitHub

   # or GitHub
   pip install git+https://github.com/lucasoal/igmapper.git
  

Documentation

• Documentation

License

• MIT

Dependencies

• Requests | pydantic

See the full installation instructions for minimum supported versions of required, recommended and optional dependencies.

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