night-stalker

Simple Instagram scraper for recent activities.

The previous library I was using stopped working after Instagram removed their public facing APIs. Public posts should be readily accessible by people anyway because well, they are public.

Features

• Gets up to 12 recent posts (video, post, carousel photos)
• Retrieves latest stories by users

Getting Started

This library requires Node 8.10.0 and above as it utilizes on async/await, and as per ESLint's requirements.

yarn install

Usage

  const balanar = await NightStalker.loadBrowser();
  balanar.setUserName('username-to-scrape');
  
  const posts = await balanar.getPosts(noOfPosts);

  // Login is required for stories. Don't commit your credentials to version control!
  // The account also should not have 2FA enabled.
  await balanar.login(username, password); 
  const stories = await balanar.getStories();

Take note that story URLs are time-sensitive and will expire within x minutes.

TODO

• Livestream URLs