InstaCrawl

The package for those who hate Instagram's official API! (Or for those who just can't get a hold of an access token...)

Note

Thanks to the fact that this package is dependent on Instagram not changing their page source for user profiles, it may break at any time.

Prerequisites

To use this package you need to have cURL enabled and your Laravel project needs to be version 5 or up.

Installation

First require the package

composer require "dw/instacrawl:v0.10.0-alpha"

Then add the service provider

DW\InstaCrawl\ServiceProvider::class,

And the facade

'InstaCrawl' => DW\InstaCrawl\Facade::class,

Config

The configuration defines where the JSON data begins and ends on the crawled Instagram data. Also defines which keys contains the needed data for functions, ex: followed_by. If this package stops working, check the page source of a random Instagram user's profile and look for JSON and see if it differs.

To change the configuration, just run

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="DW\InstaCrawl\ServiceProvider" --tag=config

Usage

All functions returns a string, do whatever you want with it.

Get follower count

/**
* Takes a username and retrieves the amount of followers for said user.
*
* returns string
*/
InstaCrawl::getAmountOfFollowers('blondinbella');

Get follow count

/**
* Takes a username and retrieves the amount of people said user follows.
*
* returns string
*/
InstaCrawl::getAmountOfFollows('blondinbella');

Get post count

/**
* Takes a username and retrieves the amount of posts from said user.
*
* returns string
*/
InstaCrawl::getAmountOfPosts('blondinbella');

Get biography

/**
* Takes a username and retrieves said user's biography.
*
* returns string
*/
InstaCrawl::getBiography('blondinbella');

Get full name

/**
* Takes a username and retrieves the full name specified by said user.
*
* returns string
*/
InstaCrawl::getFullName('blondinbella');

Get id

/**
* Takes a username and retrieves said user's id.
*
* returns string
*/
InstaCrawl::getId('blondinbella');

Get username from url

/**
* Takes an url for a user's profile and extracts the username.
*
* returns string
*/
InstaCrawl::getUsernameFromUrl('https://www.instagram.com/blondinbella/');

Get recent media

/**
* Takes a username and retrieves said user's most recent media.
*
* returns array
*/
InstaCrawl::getRecentMedia('blondinbella');