Instagram Bot

Selenium-based bot to scrape data from Instagram posts.

Getting started

Clone the repository and download Selenium ChromeDriver (WebDriver for Chrome) .

Create a new virtualenv

On linux terminal:

virtualenv -p python3 venv

Activate the environment:

source venv/bin/activate

Install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the scrapper filling the following parameters:

• login (-l) : Your instagram login password (-p): Your instagram
• password search (-s): The hashtag you want to search number of
• scrolls (-s): Number of times you want to scroll the instagram search
• page output (-o): Filename do save the output

Example:

python instabot.py -l exampleuser -p mypassword -c chromedriver_linux64/chromedriver -s braziliansoccer -n 2 -o braziliansoccer.csv

The application is going to open a webpage and start to scrap the data. First, the login and the search will be done, after that, the bot will scroll the screen n times to save the posts links and then access one by one to get the data.

When finished, the application is going to save a .csv file containing the following data for each post:

• date: Post date
• type: Type of the post (image or video)
• user: User post
• subtitles: Post subtitles
• image_description: Image description autogenerated by instagram
• likes: Number of likes (for images)
• views: Number of views (for videos)
• rank: Post ranking (defined by instagram)
• link: Post link