NodeJS Instagram private API client

Table of Contents

• NodeJS Instagram private API client
• Table of Contents
• Install
• Support us
• Examples
• Basic concepts
  • Feeds
  • Repositories
  • Services
• Debugging - Node - Browser
• Contribution
• Useful links
  • Special thanks
  • Thanks to contributors

Install

From npm

npm install instagram-private-api

From github

npm install github:dilame/instagram-private-api

Support us

If you find this library useful for you, you can support it by donating any amount

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Examples

You can find usage examples here

Note for JavaScript users: As of Node v.13.5.0, there isn't support for ESModules and the 'import'-syntax. So you have to read the imports in the examples like this:

import { A } from 'b' ➡ const { A } = require('b')

import { IgApiClient } from './index';
import { sample } from 'lodash';
const ig = new IgApiClient();
// You must generate device id's before login.
// Id's generated based on seed
// So if you pass the same value as first argument - the same id's are generated every time
ig.state.generateDevice(process.env.IG_USERNAME);
// Optionally you can setup proxy url
ig.state.proxyUrl = process.env.IG_PROXY;
(async () => {
  // Execute all requests prior to authorization in the real Android application
  // Not required but recommended
  await ig.simulate.preLoginFlow();
  const loggedInUser = await ig.account.login(process.env.IG_USERNAME, process.env.IG_PASSWORD);
  // The same as preLoginFlow()
  // Optionally wrap it to process.nextTick so we dont need to wait ending of this bunch of requests
  process.nextTick(async () => await ig.simulate.postLoginFlow());
  // Create UserFeed instance to get loggedInUser's posts
  const userFeed = ig.feed.user(loggedInUser.pk);
  const myPostsFirstPage = await userFeed.items();
  // All the feeds are auto-paginated, so you just need to call .items() sequentially to get next page
  const myPostsSecondPage = await userFeed.items();
  await ig.media.like({
    // Like our first post from first page or first post from second page randomly
    mediaId: sample([myPostsFirstPage[0].id, myPostsSecondPage[0].id]),
    moduleInfo: {
      module_name: 'profile',
      user_id: loggedInUser.pk,
      username: loggedInUser.username,
    },
    d: sample([0, 1]),
  });
})();

Basic concepts

Feeds

Feed allows you to get data. Every feed is accessible via ig.feed.feedName. See nice example and learn how to work with library feeds.

Available feeds key list:

accountFollowers, accountFollowing, news, discover, pendingFriendships, blockedUsers, directInbox, directPending, directThread, user, tag, location, mediaComments, reelsMedia, reelsTray, timeline, musicTrending, musicSearch, musicGenre, musicMood, usertags, saved

Most of the feeds requires initialization parameter, like user pk. Check autogenerated docs, every feed doc link starts with feeds/ and contains constructor with argument if needed.

Repositories

Repositories implements low-level atomic operations. Any repository method must make at most one api-request. There is repository listing below, so you can get information about methods of each repository from our autogenerated docs.

Keys is a little hints, with it you will be able to get access to repository via ig.key.

| Key | Repository class documentation | | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | account | AccountRepository | | attribution | AttributionRepository | | challenge | ChallengeRepository | | consent | ConsentRepository | | creatives | CreativesRepository | | direct | DirectRepository | | directThread | DirectThreadRepository | | discover | DiscoverRepository | | fbsearch | FbsearchRepository | | friendship | FriendshipRepository | | launcher | LauncherRepository | | linkedAccount | LinkedAccountRepository | | live | LiveRepository | | location | LocationRepository | | locationSearch | LocationSearch | | loom | LoomRepository | | media | MediaRepository | | music | MusicRepository | | news | NewsRepository | | qe | QeRepository | | qp | QpRepository | | tag | TagRepository | | upload | UploadRepository | | user | UserRepository | | zr | ZrRepository |

Services

Services will help you to maintain some actions without calling a couple repositority methods or perform complex things like pre and postlogin flow simulations or photo/video publishing.

| Key | Service class documentation | | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | publish | PublishService | | search | SearchService | | simulate | SimulateService | | story | StoryService |

Debugging

In order to get debug infos provided by the library, you can enable debugging. The prefix for this library is ig. To get all debug logs (recommended) set the namespace to ig:*.

Node

In node you only have to set the environment variable DEBUG to the desired namespace. Further information

Browser

In the browser you have to set localStorage.debug to the desired namespace. Further information

Contribution

If you need features that is not implemented - feel free to implement and create PRs!

Plus we need some documentation, so if you are good in it - you are welcome.

Setting up your environment is described here.

Useful links

instagram-id-to-url-segment - convert the image url fragment to the media ID

Special thanks

• Richard Hutta, original author of this library. Thanks to him for starting it.

Thanks to contributors

• Nerixyz, for writing a huge amount of code for this library.