instascrape | lightweight utility and Python library | Plugin library

by tnychn Python Version: v2.0.4 License: MIT

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kandi X-RAY | instascrape Summary

instascrape is a Python library typically used in Plugin applications. instascrape has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can install using 'pip install instascrape' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.

instascrape is a fast and lightweight utility and Python library for downloading a massive amount of media (photos and videos) from Instagram, without using the official Instagram Public API. What makes instascrape special, is that instascrape aims at high efficeiency and speed. It provides a preload option that fetches and loads the full data of every item (Post/Profile) beforehand, using multithreading with the producer-consumer strategy.

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instascrape has a low active ecosystem.

It has 88 star(s) with 8 fork(s). There are 8 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 12 months.

There are 6 open issues and 23 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 39 days. There are 1 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of instascrape is v2.0.4

Quality

instascrape has 0 bugs and 45 code smells.

Security

instascrape has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

instascrape code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

There are 3 security hotspots that need review.

License

instascrape is licensed under the MIT License. This license is Permissive.

Permissive licenses have the least restrictions, and you can use them in most projects.

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instascrape releases are available to install and integrate.

Deployable package is available in PyPI.

Build file is available. You can build the component from source.

Installation instructions, examples and code snippets are available.

instascrape saves you 984 person hours of effort in developing the same functionality from scratch.

It has 2225 lines of code, 238 functions and 16 files.

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

Top functions reviewed by kandi - BETA

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

Handler for download
Format the log record
Catch exceptions
Print error message
Dump dump data
Returns a list of all registered errors
Convert a filter string to a filter function
Pretty print data
Download media
Download a story
Download media to destination
Handler for cookies
Returns the available highlights for this user
Handler for whoami
Create Instagram instance
Retrieves the story for this tag
Retrieves the latest story for this profile
Gets a list of saved posts
Gets a list of all the posts to explore
Retrieve the top posts of the tag
Returns the IGTV video posts of the user
Process post download
Download the file
Download posts from a group
Handle login
Download a list of highlights

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instascrape Examples and Code Snippets

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Community Discussions

Trending Discussions on instascrape

How to solve Selenium exception: " invalid argument 'url' must be a string "

scrapy Pipeline TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "dict") to str

QUESTION

How to solve Selenium exception: " invalid argument 'url' must be a string "

Asked 2021-Jan-24 at 09:54

I'm trying to use the insta-scrape library for python, specifically the method to get all posts of a instagram profile.

This is the link to the library page: https://pypi.org/project/insta-scrape/

This is the link to the library doc in particular for the method get_posts: https://instascrape.readthedocs.io/en/latest/instascrape.scrapers.html#module-instascrape.scrapers.profile

My simple code is :

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Jan-24 at 09:54

That's actually a bug in the python module, where Profile doesn't accept the url correctly. You can fix it by setting

insta_profile.url = 'https://www.instagram.com/molteni_matteo/'

before calling get_posts

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65868956

QUESTION

scrapy Pipeline TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "dict") to str

Asked 2021-Jan-11 at 14:50

I have a scrapy spider that i want to connect with pipeline my scrapy items are

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Jan-11 at 14:50

In this line:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65668274

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Vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities reported

Install instascrape

NOTE: Be careful when installing! The project name on PyPI is instascraper, not instascrape, since the name instascrape has been taken by another project.
To quickly download 100 timeline posts of Emma Watson (@emmawatson) that have more than 1M likes,.

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If you have any ideas on how to improve this project or if you think there is a lack of features, feel free to open an issue, or even better, open a pull request. All contributions are welcome!.

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