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Non API. Crawling post (photo, likes, comments, date ...) by username, hashtags
https://github.com/hehpollon/Instagram-Crawler
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Non API. Crawling post (photo, likes, comments, date ...) by username, hashtags
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/hehpollon/Instagram-Crawler
- Owner: hehpollon
- License: mit
- Created: 2018-06-03T11:13:21.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-05-22T21:34:33.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-06-27T14:35:42.946Z (5 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 27.3 KB
- Stars: 68
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 12
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Instagram-Crawler
Non API. Crawling post (photo, likes, comments, date ...) by username, hashtags
## Installation
1. Make sure you have Chrome browser installed.
2. Download [chromedriver](https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/) and put it into driver folder: `./driver/chromedriver`
3. Install requirements `pip install -r requirements.txt`
## Examples:
> Results: under the ./data folder
Download the first 10 photos and information from username "instagram"
```
$ python3 crawl.py -q 'instagram' -n 10
```
Download the first 7 photos and information(all comments) from hashtags #hello, #hi
```
$ python3 crawl.py -q '#hello, #hi' --a -n 7
```
###### you can enter multiple username or hashtags by separating them with commas
### Example of a files data
```
likes:
5,326
comments:
923
caption:
Art of @kendricklamar by @illestration
Bold, bright and colorful.
commentMessages:
tttt: Amazing 😉
this_is_t.rs: my name says it all
dateTime:
2018-05-30T19:42:03.000Z
```
###### photo of post will download in ./data folder
## Usage
```
Usage:
crawl.py [-q QUERY] [-n NUMBER] [--a] [-h HELP]
Options:
-q QUERY username, add '#' to search for hashtags, e.g. 'username' or '#hashtag'
For multiple query seperate with comma, e.g. 'username1, username2, #hashtag'
-n NUM number of returned posts [default: 10000]
--a collect all comments
-h HELP show this help message and exit
```
## Contributing
This is an open source project so feel free to contribute by
- Opening an [issue](https://github.com/hehpollon/Instagram-Crawler/issues/new)
- Sending me feedback via [email](mailto://[email protected])