instascrape
Lightweight Python 3 web scraper for data mining Instagram easily and efficiently!
Table of Contents
Installation
Clone
- Clone to your local machine using
$ git clone https://github.com/chris-greening/instascrape.git
Setup
- Install required dependencies using
$ pip3 install -f requirements.txt
Features
Profile
Representation of an Instagram profile. Calling static_load takes care of requesting and scraping static HTML regarding the given URL or username. Profile.static_load scrapes 36 data points including
- followers: int
- following: int
- post count: int
- profile pic URL: str
- business account: bool
- verified: bool
- etc.
from instascrape import Profile
url = 'https://www.instagram.com/gvanrossum/'
post = Profile(url)
post.static_load()
Post
Representation of a single Instagram post. Calling static_load takes care of requesting and scraping static HTML regarding the given URL or post shortcode. Post.static_load scrapes 29 data points including
- amount of likes: int
- amount of comments: int
- hashtags used: List[str]
- usernames tagged: List[str]
- caption: str
- location: str
- etc.
from instascrape import Post
url = 'https://www.instagram.com/p/CFcSLyBgseW/'
post = Post(url)
post.static_load()
Hashtag
Representation of an Instagram hashtag page. Calling static_load takes care of requesting and scraping static HTML regarding the given URL or hashtag name. Hashtag.static_load scrapes 10 data points including
- amount of posts: int
- pic URL: str
- name: str
- user is following: bool
- allowed to follow: bool
- etc.
from instascrape import Hashtag
url = 'https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/python/'
hashtag = Hashtag(url)
hashtag.static_load()
Support
Reach out to me if you have questions or ideas!
1 maintainer
Download files
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.
Source Distribution
Built Distribution
Filter files by name, interpreter, ABI, and platform.
If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.
Copy a direct link to the current filters
File details
Details for the file insta-scrape-0.0.5.tar.gz.
File metadata
- Download URL: insta-scrape-0.0.5.tar.gz
- Upload date:
- Size: 4.6 kB
- Tags: Source
- Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
- Uploaded via:
twine/3.2.0 pkginfo/1.5.0.1 requests/2.23.0 setuptools/50.3.0 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.48.2 CPython/3.7.4
File hashes
| Algorithm | Hash digest | |
|---|---|---|
| SHA256 |
62e1092af028bd79a5706c3918659c222622cc3b6e2e32029b33e966eecc8ac8
|
|
| MD5 |
dcdf5e9cb35c83ff61eade2c68780c73
|
|
| BLAKE2b-256 |
711430f23fdc238fbf06c2c4bfb8e1f10d82a50d09090b32cb5eeb91058a9428
|
File details
Details for the file insta_scrape-0.0.5-py3-none-any.whl.
File metadata
- Download URL: insta_scrape-0.0.5-py3-none-any.whl
- Upload date:
- Size: 6.7 kB
- Tags: Python 3
- Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
- Uploaded via:
twine/3.2.0 pkginfo/1.5.0.1 requests/2.23.0 setuptools/50.3.0 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.48.2 CPython/3.7.4
File hashes
| Algorithm | Hash digest | |
|---|---|---|
| SHA256 |
304f8c5ce155c7b7ab0abc23c2d793948e265e2987ebe5cbea902d7b49a995ec
|
|
| MD5 |
1c96b656c0dfb798972be65c7220f1ce
|
|
| BLAKE2b-256 |
7b5d1cc685dcba212249c08379bc826de67e32d74b5bcd37c9318b09142b1994
|
