IG Scraper

## Install IG scraper

$ pip install instagram-scraper

$ pip install instagram-scraper --upgrade

Usage

# To scrape a users media <yolayyc> (login in if private account)

!instagram-scraper yolayyc

Searching yolayyc for profile pic: 100% 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 1605.17 images/s]
Searching yolayyc for posts: 282 media [00:28,  9.86 media/s]
Downloading: 100%|##########| 283/283 [00:00<00:00, 59080.58it/s]

# Specify media types to scrape. Enter as space separated values. 
# Valid values are image, video, story (story-image & story-video), or none. Stories require a --login-user and --login-pass to be defined.

!instagram-scraper iakuhs -t image

Searching iakuhs for profile pic: 100% 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 1503.33 images/s]
Searching iakuhs for posts: 47 media [00:04, 10.46 media/s]
Downloading: 100%|##########| 48/48 [00:06<00:00,  7.42it/s]

# Saves the media metadata associated with the user's posts to <destination>/<username>.json.  
# Can be combined with --media-types none to only fetch the metadata without downloading the media.

!instagram-scraper yolayyc --media-metadata

Searching yolayyc for profile pic: 100% 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 1760.83 images/s]
Searching yolayyc for posts: 282 media [00:30,  9.36 media/s]
Downloading: 100%|##########| 283/283 [00:00<00:00, 78050.24it/s]

# Saves the comment metadata associated with the posts to <destination>/<username>.json. 
# Can be combined with --media-types noneto only fetch the metadata without downloading the media.

# !instagram-scraper jet___official --comments I

# Saves the user profile metadata to  <destination>/<username>.json.

!instagram-scraper yolayyc --profile-metadata

Searching yolayyc for profile pic: 100% 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 1795.51 images/s]
Searching yolayyc for posts: 282 media [00:27, 10.32 media/s]
Downloading: 100%|##########| 283/283 [00:00<00:00, 76982.17it/s]

# To scrape a hashtag for media with a maximum of 50 posts

!Instagram-scraper love -m 50

Searching love for profile pic: 100% 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 1360.46 images/s]
Searching love for posts: 1 media [00:01,  1.31s/ media]
Downloading: 100%|##########| 51/51 [00:00<00:00, 20407.32it/s]

# Reference: IG Scrapper (https://github.com/rarcega/instagram-scraper)