Instagram Scrape Account Stats
A tool for scraping public data from Instagram, without needing to get permission from Instagram. It scrapes the following fields:
- description
- followers
- following
- isExplicit
- isPrivate
- isVerified
- name
- posts
- userId
- username
- website
See lib/response.schema.json
for further details.
Example
CLI
The CLI operates entirely over STDOUT, and will output the account stats as JSON.
$ instagram-scrape-account-stats -u slang800{"description":null,"followers":21,"following":90,"isExplicit":false,"isPrivate":false,"isVerified":false,"name":"Sean Lang","userId":"465981344","username":"slang800","posts":2,"website":"http://slang.cx"}
JavaScript Module
The following example is in CoffeeScript.
require 'instagram-scrape-account-stats' getAccountStatsusername: 'slang800'then consolelog " has followers."
The following example is the same as the last one, but in JavaScript.
var getAccountStats = getAccountStats; ;
Why?
Instagram doesn't provide an open, structured, and machine readable API, so, we're forced to scrape their user-facing site.
Caveats
- This is probably against the Instagram TOS, so don't use it if that sort of thing worries you.
- Whenever Instagram updates certain parts of their front-end this scraper will need to be updated to support the new API.
- You can't scrape protected accounts (cause it's not public duh).