Scrape useful information from instagram.
No login or password are required.
This is not an official API support and etc. This is just a scraper that is using instagram graph api to scrape media.
- Scrape media posts from username, hashtag or location
REQUIRES AN ACTIVE SESSION - Scrape comments from a specific instagram post
- Scrape users who liked specific post
REQUIRES AN ACTIVE SESSION - Scrape followers
REQUIRES AN ACTIVE SESSION - Scrape following
REQUIRES AN ACTIVE SESSION - Download and save media to a ZIP archive
- Create JSON/CSV files with a post information
- Improve documentation
- More examples
- Web interface
Possible errors from instagram API
- Rate Limit - Instagram API temporarily blocked your IP, you can wait a little, try to use a proxy or set the higher {timeout}
instatouch requires Node.js v8.6.0+ to run.
Install from NPM
$ npm i -g instatouchInstall from YARN
$ yarn global add instatouch$ instatouch --help
Usage: cli <command> [options]
Commands:
instatouch user [id] Scrape posts from username. Enter only username
instatouch hashtag [id] Scrape posts from hashtag. Enter hashtag without
#
instatouch location [id] Scrape posts from a specific location. Enter
location ID
instatouch comments [id] Scrape comments from a post. Enter post url or
post id
instatouch likers [id] Scrape users who liked a post. Enter post url or
post id
instatouch history View previous download history
instatouch from-file [file] [async] Scrape users, hashtags, music, videos mentioned
in a file. 1 value per 1 line
Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
--count, -c Number of post to scrape [default: 40]
--mediaType, -m Media type to scrape
[choices: "image", "video", "all"] [default: "all"]
--proxy, -p Set single proxy [default: ""]
--proxy-file Use proxies from a file. Scraper will use random proxies
from the file per each request. 1 line 1 proxy.
[default: ""]
--session Set session. For example: sessionid=BLBLBLBLLBL
[default: ""]
--timeout If you will receive error saying 'rate limit', you can
try to set timeout. Timeout is in mls: 1000 mls = 1
second [default: 0]
--download, -d Download all scraped posts [boolean] [default: false]
--zip, -z ZIP all downloaded posts [boolean] [default: false]
--asyncDownload, -a How many posts should be downloaded at the same time.
Try not to set more then 5 [default: 5]
--filename, -f Set custom filename for the output files [default: ""]
--filepath Directory to save all output files.
[default: "/Users/karl.wint"]
--filetype, -t Type of output file where post information will be
saved. 'all' - save information about all posts to a
'json' and 'csv'. '' - do not save data in to files
[choices: "csv", "json", "all", ""] [default: "csv"]
--store, -s Scraper will save the progress in the OS TMP or Custom
folder and in the future usage will only download new
posts avoiding duplicates [boolean] [default: false]
--historypath Set custom path where history file/files will be stored
[default: "/var/folders/d5/fyh1_f2926q7c65g7skc0qh80000gn/T"]
--remove, -r Delete the history record by entering "TYPE:INPUT" or
"all" to clean all the history. For example: user:bob
[default: ""]
--help Show help [boolean]
In order to access user,hashtag,location,likers,comments data you need an active session cookie value! This value can be taken from the instagram web(you need to be authorized in the web version)
- Open inspector for example in Google Chrome browser then right click on the web page -> inspector -> Network
- Refresh the page
- In the "Network" section you will see the request, select it, scroll down to the "Request Headers" section and look for the "cookie:" section, there you will find this value "sessionid=BLAHLBAH"
- Use it
.user('tiktok', options) // User feed
.hashtag('summer', options) // Hashtag feed
.location('', options) // Location feed
.comments('https://www.instagram.com/p/CATMghXnGrg/', options) // Post comments
.likers('https://www.instagram.com/p/CATMghXnGrg/', options) // People who liked post
.followers('instagram', options) // Get followers
.following('instagram', options) // Get followings
.getUserMeta('USERNAME', options) // Get user metadata
.getPostMeta('https://www.instagram.com/p/CATMghXnGrg/', options) // Get post metadataconst options = {
// Number of posts to scrape: {int default: 0}
count: 0,
// Download posts or not. {boolean default: false}
download: false,
// Archive downloaded posts. {boolean default: false}
// If set to {false} then posts will be saved in the newly created folder
zip: false
// How many post should be downloaded asynchronously. Only if {download:true}: {int default: 5}
asyncDownload: 5,
// Media type to scrape: ["image", "video", "all"]: {string default: 'all'}
mediaType: 'all',
// Set proxy {string[] | string default: ''}
// http proxy: 127.0.0.1:8080
// socks proxy: socks5://127.0.0.1:8080
// You can pass proxies as an array and scraper will randomly select a proxy from the array to execute the requests
proxy: '',
// File name that will be used to save data to: {string default: '[id]'}
filename: '[id]',
// File path where all files will be saved: {string default: 'USER_HOME_DIR'}
filepath: `USER_HOME_DIR`,
// Output with information can be saved to a CSV or JSON files: {string default: 'na'}
// 'csv' to save in csv
// 'json' to save in json
// 'all' to save in json and csv
// 'na' to skip this step
filetype: `na`,
// Set initial cursor value to start pagination over the feed from the specific point: {string default: ''}
endCursor: ''
// Timeout between requests. If error 'rate limit' received then this option can be useful: {int default: 0}
timeout: 0,
// Some endpoints do require a valid session cookie value
// This value can be taken from the instagram web(you need to be authorized in the web version)
// Open inspector(google chrome -> right click on the web page -> inspector->Network)
// refresh page and in the "Network" section you will see the request, select it
// scroll down to the "Request Headers" section and look for "cookie:" section
// and there you will find this value "sessionid=BLAHLBAH"
session: "sessionid=BLAHLBAH"
};Result will contain a bunch of data
instaTouch {
collector:[ARRAY_OF_DATA]
//Files are below
zip: '/{CURRENT_PATH}/natgeo_1552963581094.zip',
json: '/{CURRENT_PATH}/natgeo_1552963581094.json',
csv: '/{CURRENT_PATH}/natgeo_1552963581094.csv'
}Example output for the methods: user, hashtag, location
{
id: '2311886241697642614',
shortcode: 'CAVeEm1gDh2',
type: 'GraphSidecar',
is_video: false,
dimension: { height: 1080, width: 1080 },
display_url:
'https://scontent-hel2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/97212979_112497166934732_8766432510789477700_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-hel2-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=4jd1cuOMYrkAX_y6CK2&oh=2aa0b339cdf653dac916a64a70c81e31&oe=5EEB5E07',
thumbnail_src:
'https://scontent-hel2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s640x640/97212979_112497166934732_8766432510789477700_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-hel2-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=4jd1cuOMYrkAX_y6CK2&oh=af5440bdf071108b7e74b1524c358e66&oe=5EED8CE4',
owner: { id: '25025320', username: 'instagram' },
description:
'FernandoMagalhães’(@mglhs_com)ever-evolvingfuturisticbeingsliveintheGenesisHumanProject.Alpha,acomputer-generatedworldhedreamedupattheendof2018.TheLondon-basedBrazilianartistusesproceduralmodeling,aprogrammingtechniquethatcreates3Dmodelsandtextures.\n\n“I’monlyabletoseethem[hischaracters]oncetherenderisdone—soit’skindoflikemeetingsomebodyforthefirsttime,”explainsFernando.“Ilovetoseethemandtrytounderstand,tofeelfromwheretheycamefrom,whotheyare,whattheydoandsoon.”\n\n“TodayI’mworkinginthisuniversethatIcreated,butmymindgoesmuchfurtherthanthat.Throughmywork,Ihopepeopleunderstandthatartgoesbeyondwhatweknowasart,there’sdifferentpaths,approachesandpossibilities.”#ThisWeekOnInstagram\n\nDigitalimagesby@mglhs_com',
comments: 5050,
likes: 412657,
comments_disabled: false,
taken_at_timestamp: 1589818338,
location: { id: '213385402', has_public_page: true, name: 'London,UnitedKingdom', slug: 'london-united-kingdom' },
hashtags: ['#ThisWeekOnInstagram'],
mentions: ['@mglhs_com', '@mglhs_com'],
};Example output for the methods: comments
{
id: '17854856327003928',
text: 'Böyle şeytani figürleri yayınlamak mi zorundasınız. Euzu billahi mineşşeytanirracim Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.',
created_at: 1589837238,
did_report_as_spam: false,
owner: {
id: '13492154487',
is_verified: false,
profile_pic_url:
'https://scontent-hel2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/s150x150/89832595_142698410416916_7218363900150939648_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-hel2-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_ohc=dIhkVzLiHVUAX-o8Vx6&oh=d516c43b444dc3409ac3f0cca145f9ca&oe=5EEBA851',
username: 'hasan_dede4809',
},
likes: 0,
comments: 0,
};Example output for the methods: likers
{
id: '27165506664',
username: 'josedhl_priv',
full_name: 'José David',
profile_pic_url:
'https://scontent-hel2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/s150x150/80568189_848308822340996_1519415041114243072_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-hel2-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_ohc=Kgmrwidffj0AX99RC-n&oh=a4e999c7ec74630c9a4a468272fc22c8&oe=5EEE2A91',
is_private: true,
is_verified: false,
};MIT
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