instagram-scraper | scrapy spiders useful to crawl instagram posts | Crawler library

by h4t0n Python Version: Current License: GPL-3.0

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kandi X-RAY | instagram-scraper Summary

instagram-scraper is a Python library typically used in Automation, Crawler, Selenium applications. instagram-scraper has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. However instagram-scraper build file is not available. You can download it from GitHub.

Some scrapy spiders useful to crawl instagram posts using public APIS (No TOKEN)

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instagram-scraper has a low active ecosystem.

It has 122 star(s) with 54 fork(s). There are 8 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 6 months.

There are 4 open issues and 5 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 19 days. There are no pull requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of instagram-scraper is current.

Quality

instagram-scraper has 0 bugs and 3 code smells.

Security

instagram-scraper has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

instagram-scraper code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

There are 0 security hotspots that need review.

License

instagram-scraper is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. This license is Strong Copyleft.

Strong Copyleft licenses enforce sharing, and you can use them when creating open source projects.

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instagram-scraper releases are not available. You will need to build from source code and install.

instagram-scraper has no build file. You will be need to create the build yourself to build the component from source.

Installation instructions are not available. Examples and code snippets are available.

instagram-scraper saves you 52 person hours of effort in developing the same functionality from scratch.

It has 137 lines of code, 20 functions and 7 files.

It has medium code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

Top functions reviewed by kandi - BETA

kandi has reviewed instagram-scraper and discovered the below as its top functions. This is intended to give you an instant insight into instagram-scraper implemented functionality, and help decide if they suit your requirements.

Parse Instagram post query
Create a post object from a media dict
Parse post
Parse the HTTag header
Parse HTTag response
Checks if given shortcode is alreadyraped

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instagram-scraper Key Features

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instagram-scraper Examples and Code Snippets

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$ pip install instagram-scraper

$ pip install instagram-scraper --upgrade

$ python setup.py install

Community Discussions

Trending Discussions on instagram-scraper

python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output why installing instagram-scraper

How to correctly generate x-instagram-gis

Downloading public data from Instagram for research

Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository

QUESTION

python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output why installing instagram-scraper

Asked 2020-Oct-18 at 10:09

I tried to run pip install instagram-scraper and pip install igramscraper in windows terminal but I got this error:

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

and full text of error is:

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ANSWER

Answered 2020-Oct-18 at 10:09

I couldn't find an exact solution for this. I just used virtual environment for installing modules for this special project to remove such conflicts.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64216657

QUESTION

How to correctly generate x-instagram-gis

Asked 2019-Jan-05 at 06:30

I have written the following function in Python3.7 to generate x-instagram-gis. According to my research regarding this topic I have gathered that I only need the rhx_gis and variables (id: profile_id, first: int<50, after: end_cursor) to generate the x-instagram-gis.

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ANSWER

Answered 2018-Dec-29 at 02:42

I have figured it out.

The rhx_gis value is calculated based on the user-agent sent in the headers. The rhx_gis value I was obtaining was retrieved using python requests which sets its own user-agent (python-requests or something similar), whereas the rhx_gis value I was seeing on Postman was created using a different user-agent (set on Postman)

To fix this issue I had to set the same user-agent in python requests as the one set on Postman.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53958252

QUESTION

Downloading public data from Instagram for research

Asked 2018-Aug-20 at 06:40

I am doing a research for which I am required to download Instagram data. At first I tried using Instagram API but it has a cap now on the number of posts that can be downloaded per API call and the number of API calls per day, which makes it irrelevant to my work. I also tried using instagram-scraper which is unable to download larger amounts of data. I finally turned to web scraping using selenium with python which worked well for me for scraping usernames of about 15000 public profiles relevant to my research. However, because of the dynamic way in which Instagram loads its web pages, I am unable to scrape links to posts of users. The code keeps pressing tabs and extracting post links(which are web pages which have only a single post) of focused elements. Instagram however, stops loading images(unable to scroll any further) after a certain number of posts or certain amount of time. Is there any other way I can do this?

I also wanted to inquire if this is legal and if I will be able to publish this data later on as most of the researchers do.

Can I buy this data somehow, if yes, then how much is it going to cost me and what are the sources?

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ANSWER

Answered 2018-Aug-20 at 06:40

I did something very similar to what you did so I thought maybe I can share some thoughts and answer some of your questions:

1st: I'm pretty sure it's illegal (will try to add a link to Instagram's policy) and instagram strongly rejects crawling and scrapping of their properties. So buying this stuff is also out of question unless you want to get your hands dirty.

2nd: Yes Instagram regularly changes the signature of their photos and videos. Thankfully the link to posts and profiles stays the same. The best you can do is to go to post webpage as fast as possible (before the signature expires) and download what you need.

3rd: The link's signature comes from some JavaScript codes and if you download the webpage source you get nothing. You actually need a JS engine to parse and load webpage for you.

4th: I'm not sure your post is considered a true Stack-overflow question. seems more like a guide to me than a question.

And last I was not able to find any other method to load earlier posts beside the scrolling to bottom of page. You have to scroll and wait for more posts to fill the page, and it is pretty usual for Instagram to not load more posts so implement a timeout mechanism for yourself.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51925121

QUESTION

Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository

Asked 2017-Mar-02 at 06:58

I have the following in my .git/config

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ANSWER

Answered 2017-Mar-02 at 06:58

If you did not properly setup your ssh key with GitHub, you can at least try with https (which you mentioned):

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42544568

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Vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities reported

Install instagram-scraper

You can download it from GitHub.
You can use instagram-scraper like any standard Python library. You will need to make sure that you have a development environment consisting of a Python distribution including header files, a compiler, pip, and git installed. Make sure that your pip, setuptools, and wheel are up to date. When using pip it is generally recommended to install packages in a virtual environment to avoid changes to the system.

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